Cyber Operations

Quantum technologies offer critical advantages to inaccessible classical technologies. Collaboration with Leidos’ recognized leaders in cybersecurity, digital modernization, intelligence, defense, AI/ML, and software drives multi-disciplinary innovation with emerging quantum technologies to build practical solutions for our customer’s challenges.

Zero Trust is a concept that challenges traditional cybersecurity thinking. It assumes that networks are either actively under attack or already breached.

PACKIT™ (Proven, Analytic-Centric Kill Chain Implementation and Transformation) is our threat-based approach to conducting and improving cyber defense. PACKIT leverages people, process and technology to operationalize and implement an analytical framework (i.e., kill-chains) to improve an organization’s cybersecurity posture.

As a company, we design, build, and deploy valuable assets – IT, data systems, networks, or platforms – for our customers. Using our cyber expertise, we continually enhance our techniques and processes to build systems that operate resiliently in the face of evolving cyber threats. We put hardware and software to the test – through penetration testing, reverse engineering, adversarial simulations and assessments – to identify gaps in security and develop the best solutions for our customers’ systems.

Security, at its core, is a risk analysis and management activity. This starts with a successful system authorization to operate (ATO) and proper alignment to the risk management framework (RMF). In addition to expertise, Leidos' Risk and Privacy Management Acceleration Playbook (RAPMAP) is a repeatable playbook to implementing the RMF, where best practice tools, templates, and techniques are provided to our customers.

Our Foundational Automation Support Technology (FAST) framework is an innovative approach to automatically discover and track all IP-addressable network devices — reducing manual, labor-intensive processes like asset inventory. This approach facilitates a configuration management database (CMDB) and incorporates AI and machine learning to understand event relationships better and perform predictive analytics between events.

Keeping pace with the Federal Information Security Modernization act is vital for every company. To help, Leidos developed IonIA™, a product that helps you determine what is reportable under FISMA. IonIA ensures you're adhering to FISMA by defining, maintaining, and repetitively monitoring your systems through every security layer.

Our risk-based services integrate both technical and non-technical system elements for a truly holistic defense against insider threats. Using anomaly detection and analytics, we identify unusual activity based on peers, time of day, and previous activity and correlate this activity with external risk factors to produce a weighted risk score and prioritize internal investigations. Our proven solutions can complement existing technical tools or be deployed independently.  

The Leidos Accredited Testing and Evaluation (AT&E) Lab is accredited by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) NVLAP Program (Lab code 200427-0). As the industry volume leader, our AT&E Lab has certified more than 1000 IT security products across 100+ commercial product vendors since 2000, including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, Cisco, and Symantec. 

To help information security professionals proactively remediate and mitigate advanced threats, Leidos developed Experiential Cyber Immersion Training and Exercises — EXCITE — a set of realistic, hands-on exercises that immerse students in the reconstruction and mitigation of a full attack scenario in a lab environment.

Helping customers keep our nation safe with advanced-capability, cognitive, small form-factor RF/signal processors, designed for signals intelligence, electronic warfare, radar, and jammer applications.