CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat
Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications
company, announced today it is part of an elite community of
commercial service providers approved to receive cyber threat
intelligence through the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) Enhanced Cybersecurity Services
(ECS) program. As an accredited ECS provider, Viasat will
receive DHS-provided sensitive and classified cybersecurity threat
indicators and information to defend U.S.-based public and private
computer networks, including state and local governments, against
unauthorized access, exploitation and data exfiltration.
DHS accredited Viasat as one of four companies able to pass
stringent ECS program requirements following an audit of Viasat's
cybersecurity capabilities, security architecture and facilities.
All DHS ECS service providers must achieve a high standard of
security competence and compliance, including maintaining the
ability to safeguard sensitive and classified information, and
security approvals for personnel, facilities and computer network
systems.
Ken Peterman, president,
Government Systems, Viasat commented, "The added DHS ECS
intelligence coupled with the advanced capabilities inherent in the
Viasat cyber offering, enables us to better fortify our customers'
cyber posture and maintain a vigilant and watchful defense
against the world's most advanced adversaries. This added insight
allows us to create a more accurate, customized, real-time
cybersecurity picture that will enable customers to reach advanced
cyber resiliency levels needed to reduce overall risks against
cyber threats."
How Viasat's ECS solution works
Viasat's ECS solution
is unique in that it uses Viasat's National Security Agency
(NSA)-certified Trusted Cyber Sensor (TCS) to monitor network
traffic with government provided classified indicators without
routing traffic through its data center. Viasat strategically
places its TCS devices within a customer's network and securely
manages, maintains and configures them remotely from Viasat's Cyber
Security Operations Center (CSOC). Once in the customer's network,
the TCS devices inspect network traffic on-premises, inside
the customer perimeter boundary, ensuring customer privacy is
preserved.
Viasat's ECS solution is the first to take advantage of the ECS
Netflow Analysis capability, which provides network traffic flow
indicators to help customers detect malicious activity within their
network, in addition to the traditional email and domain name
indicators. These indicators can be sent by DHS up to six months in
advance of them appearing on other premium, commercially-available
threat intelligence feeds——which means customers may detect serious
threats before their current technology stack of security tools
detects them. If the Viasat CSOC uncovers a security incident, the
customer is immediately notified, sent actionable information to
quickly triage and remediate the situation and is made aware of
additional support resources to help them respond. In fact, Viasat
offers a full range of Managed Detection and Partnered Response
(MDPR) services integrated with, and complementary to, the ECS
program.
Insights about Viasat's threat detection
service
Viasat has a world-class CSOC that uses an
integrated and scalable cybersecurity model based on the MITRE
ATT&CK® framework. Today, the Company analyzes
75,000 – 100,000 new indicators of compromise per day; 600,000
netflows of traffic data/minute and 27 terabytes of event data
daily from commercial, enterprise, government and Department of
Defense customers. Viasat processes this rich, diverse and large
data set using proprietary analytics to create custom
operationalized, contextualized and actionable intelligence for its
premium level cybersecurity service.
For more information on Viasat's cybersecurity offerings and ECS
capabilities, please visit the Company's website here
About Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company
that believes everyone and everything in the world can be
connected. For more than 30 years, Viasat has helped shape how
consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world
communicate. Today, the Company is developing the ultimate global
communications network to power high-quality, secure, affordable,
fast connections to impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the
ground, in the air or at sea. To learn more about Viasat,
visit: www.viasat.com, go to Viasat's Corporate Blog, or
follow the Company on social media at:
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors
created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Readers are cautioned that actual results
could differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any
forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements include
statements that refer to Viasat's participation in the DHS ECS
program; the ability to create accurate customized, 360 degree
cybersecurity views of a network using DHS-provided and Viasat
gathered cyber data; and its ability to help customers to reach
advanced cyber hygiene levels needed to reduce overall risks
against cyber threats. Factors that could cause actual results to
differ include: product defects, manufacturing issues or delays,
contractual problems, regulatory issues, technologies not being
developed according to anticipated schedules, or that do not
perform according to expectations; and increased competition and
other factors affecting the government and defense sectors
generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained
in Viasat's SEC filings available
at www.sec.gov, including Viasat's most recent
Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on
which they are made. Viasat undertakes no obligation to
update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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Viasat, Inc. All other product or company names mentioned are used
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