Reston, VA-based Trustwave announced on September 16 the Trustwave Fusion platform is now also hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, providing U.S. government agencies and suppliers threat detection and response services to help address the constantly shifting threat landscape while meeting stringent U.S. Federal government security requirements.
The cloud-native Trustwave Fusion platform delivers the first U.S.-only managed threat detection and response services hosted on AWS GovCloud and is in the process of FedRAMP authorization. The Trustwave Fusion platform is the cornerstone of the company’s managed security services, products and other cybersecurity offerings.
“The scale and scope of government cybersecurity challenges are bigger than ever,” said Bill Rucker, president, Trustwave Government Solutions. “The adversarial landscape is so complex, and agencies continue to face a massive cyber workforce gap. As mobility and cloud widen the attack surface, user behavior patterns have become more difficult to monitor. By unifying powerful threat detection and response services and technologies with some of the top talent in cybersecurity, Trustwave can help agencies respond to attackers’ evolving tactics.”
One major finding of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Federal Cybersecurity Risk Determination Report and Action Plan – released in May 2018 – was that a majority of agencies lack sufficient visibility into what is happening on their network. OMB mandated that agencies must submit an enterprise-level Cybersecurity Operations Maturation Plan, as well as complete Security Operation Center (SOC) maturation, consolidation or migration to SOC-as-a-Service by September 2020.
The Trustwave Fusion platform helps agencies on this journey, connecting their digital footprints to a robust security cloud comprised of the Trustwave data lake, advanced analytics, actionable threat intelligence, a wide range of security services and products and staffed by U.S. citizens, including Trustwave SpiderLabs, the company’s elite team of security specialists.
The platform unifies these capabilities onto a single, easy-to-use interface that can be accessed and managed via desktop, tablet or mobile phone. Agencies and suppliers can manage complex security programs and scale resources as needed with simple point-and-click navigation.
“As the threat landscape grows more challenging, the Federal government continues to struggle with complex environments, myriad legacy systems and a lack of resources to meet the issue head-on,” said Kevin Kerr, chief information security officer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “A shift toward managed threat detection and response, and virtual, hybrid SOC environments give agencies the visibility and cyber defense support they need to improve their security postures and advance their missions.”
Source: Trustwave
By Loren Blinde
September 17, 2020
