Air Force chooses Dark Wolf Solutions for cyber penetration testing and adversarial assessment services
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. – U.S. Air Force cyber security experts needed a company to perform software penetration testing and adversarial assessment. They found their solution from Dark Wolf Solutions LLC in Chantilly, Va.
Officials of the Air Force District of Washington at Joint Base Andrews, Md., announced $75 million blanket purchase agreement to Dark Wolf on Thursday for cyber innovation services. The work to be conducted includes software penetration testing and adversarial assessment.
A penetration test attempts to exploit computer and digital networking vulnerabilities to determine if unauthorized access or other malicious activity is possible.
Penetration testing typically includes network penetration testing and application security testing as well as controls and processes around the networks and applications, and should occur from outside the network trying to break in, as well as from inside the network.
An adversarial assessment gauges the ability of a computing or networking system to carry on its mission while withstanding cyber attacks, including protecting the system, detecting cyber threats, reacting attacks, and restoring degraded mission capability degraded or lost because of hackers.
Dark Wolf Solutions specializes in agile software development, information operations, penetration testing, incident response, rapid prototyping, machine learning, and engineering services.
The company's cyber security expertise revolves around malware analysis, vulnerability research, vulnerability assessment, network intrusion analysis, internet of things (IoT) security, and incident response.
On this contract Dark Wolf will do the work at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and should be finished by this October. For more information contact Dark Wolf Solutions online at www.darkwolfsolutions.com, or the Air Force District of Washington at www.afdw.af.mil.
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John Keller is the Editor-in-Chief, Military & Aerospace Electronics Magazine--provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronics and optoelectronic technologies in military, space and commercial aviation applications. John has been a member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since 1989 and chief editor since 1995.
