DHS Science & Technology Directorate Awards Contract to Red Hat & Kryptowire to Advance Mobile Application Lifecycle Security
September 06 2017 - 12:00PM
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Application Platform
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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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