CISA will increase .gov security and make it harder for malicious actors to impersonate the domain

guest · Nov 24, 2021

CISA interested in protective email service for .gov domain
November 24, 2021
https://www.fedscoop.com/cisa-protective-email-service/

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants industry input on a protective email service that would secure the civilian .gov domain from cyberthreats.

CISA is interested in a protective email service (PES) that not only secures email traffic but conducts threat hunting and incident response, it said in a request for information (RFI) issued on SAM.gov Nov. 17.
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The agency took over the .gov domain — one of six original top-level domains in the internet’s Domain Name System — from the General Services Administration in April, as mandated by the DOTGOV Act of 2020, in an effort to make it harder for hackers to impersonate the critical infrastructure.
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CISA hopes providers with a broad set of email security capabilities, who have delivered similar solutions to federal agencies or companies, will respond to the RFI.

Interested respondents have until Dec. 1 to submit questions about the RFI to GSA, the Federal Acquisition Service being the agency handling the acquisition. GSA will post answers no later than the close of business on Dec. 10, at which point respondents will have until Dec. 20 to submit feedback.
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DHS RFI: CISA Protective Email Service
https://etc.g2xchange.com/statics/cisa-rfi-cisa-protective-email-service/

In support of the FCEB, CISA is exploring a PES solution to protect email traffic and to conduct threat hunting and incident response.
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The CISA PES objectives are to:

Normalize and provide baseline security and visibility for FCEB email.

Detect and protect federal enterprise from malicious email content as part of the CISA mission to manage FCEB risk.

Detect and prevent the federal enterprise email from being used as a vector for malicious threat actors against itself and non-federal entities.

Provide appropriate visibility into agency email traffic to enable CISA Global Operators to conduct cyber hunt and incident response.

Be able to leverage CISA’s and FCEB entity data holdings in cyber hunt, prevention, mitigation, and incident response activities

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