Cyber Operations
Accelerating cybersecurity in a changing world
Emerging threats require innovative cyber protection
Leidos is a recognized leader in cybersecurity across the federal government, bringing decades of experience defending cyber interests globally and delivering advanced capabilities honed from protecting some of the world’s most valuable assets. Our solutions and services ensure an adaptive defense strategy, sustainable threat protection, and a mature security posture. Our 2,900 cybersecurity professionals stand ready to secure your enterprise.
Unpacking President Biden's cybersecurity Executive Order
On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order (EO) outlining several cybersecurity measures and requirements intended to harden our nation’s digital infrastructure against increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks. Read our series on how Executive Order 14028 might impact you, and how Leidos is prepared to enable our customers to respond.
About EO 14028 EO: The First 60 Days
What is Zero Trust?
Zero Trust is a concept that challenges traditional cybersecurity thinking. It assumes that networks are either actively under attack or already breached.
SOC to SIC
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.
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Cyber Resiliency
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.
Risk Management Framework
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.
Cyber Analytics
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.
Information Assurance
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.
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Insider Threat
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.
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Accredited Testing & Evaluation
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.
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EXCITE
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.
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Cybersecurity on a mission
Securing what's important in an ever changing threat landscape has never been more complex. Explore how Leidos can support you as a recognized leader in cybersecurity with 2,900+ cybersecurity certifications and over 30 years' experience protecting your network and defending against global cyber attacks.
Enabling Technologies
Our enabling technologies are the backbone of our core capabilities, supporting our customer's important work from the front lines.
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