DHS Science and Technology Directorate Awards Contract to Red Hat and Kryptowire to Advance Mobile Application Lifecycle Security
RALEIGH, N.C. & FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open-source
solutions, and Kryptowire, leading provider of a military-grade mobile
application security testing platform used by top-security Federal
agencies, today announced that the companies have been awarded a
contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and
Technology Directorate (S&T) to advance mobile application lifecycle
security.
The grant for the project—titled “Assured Mobile Application Lifecycle
using Red Hat Enterprise”—was announced in a DHS
S&T press release.
In May, DHS S&T announced the findings of its “Study
on Mobile Device Security”, conducted in coordination with the
National Institute of Standards and Technology and its National
Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. According to that announcement,
“[t]he study found that the threats to the Federal government’s use of
mobile devices—smartphones and tablet computers running mobile operating
systems—exist across all elements of the mobile ecosystem. These threats
require a security approach that differs substantially from the
protections developed for desktop workstations largely because mobile
devices are exposed to a distinct set of threats, frequently operate
outside of enterprise protections and have evolved independently of
desktop architectures.”
Through the DHS S&T Mobile Application Security project, Red Hat and
Kryptowire will help to address this mobile security gap by developing a
framework for automation of security and privacy compliance in the
mobile application lifecycle. To do so, the companies plan to
collaborate on the following development initiatives:
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A Red Hat Mobile Application Platform extension that will use
Kryptowire’s mobile application testing capabilities to automatically
enforce checks throughout the mobile application development process
to enable code and third-party library compliance with U.S. mobile
security standards.
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Security updates and notifications to address new security or privacy
vulnerabilities that affect an application while it is already
deployed, enabling end-users to more quickly address new threats.
Updates can be enforced in several ways, including user notifications
and denial of back-end services. Red Hat and Kryptowire propose
augmenting the support for security notifications and updates by
including additional re-usable services in Red Hat Mobile Application
Platform.
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Optimization of Kryptowire's mobile application certification platform
for Red Hat Mobile Application Platform’s processes, with a goal of
creating a commercial solution that will improve end-to-end mobile
security solutions throughout DHS and other U.S. government agencies.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Public Sector,
Red Hat
“Mobile devices—including smartphones and tablets—are
used across government agencies, but these devices and the mobile apps
that run on them require a unique approach to security. This DHS S&T
Mobile Application Security project aims to help address this security
gap with an approach to mobile app security that can serve as a best
practice across U.S. government agencies. We are excited to collaborate
with Kryptowire to help the U.S. government provide automated
enforcement of government security standards in mobile apps and, through
this automated approach, help minimize human error during application
releases.”
Angelos Stavrou, CEO, Kryptowire LLC
“Kryptowire's
mobile app software assurance technology can now be used during every
stage of the software development lifecycle. Enterprises will be able to
analyze the mobile apps they develop in-house, to ensure they meet the
same internationally recognized security requirements used for
classified and national security systems.”
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About Kryptowire
Kryptowire automatically tests and validates the security of mobile and
IoT firmware and applications to the highest government and industry
software assurance standards. Kryptowire was jumpstarted by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) in 2011, is based in Fairfax, Virginia, USA and has a
customer base ranging from government agencies to national cable TV
companies. For more information and to schedule a demo, visit www.kryptowire.com.
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or
Kryptowire
Tom
Karygiannis, Ph.D, +1 202-531-6420
Tom@kryptowire.com
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