Cyber Operations
Accelerating cybersecurity in a changing world
Emerging threats require innovative cyber protection
Making Smart Smarter: Proactive Cyber Defense and Intelligent Frameworks: In a world where 'smart' has become the standard, Leidos redefines the benchmark with our next-level cyber solutions. Our approach is not just about being smart in the face of evolving cyber threats – it's about making smart smarter. With our AI-Driven Cyber Defense and Leidos Cyber Framework, we move beyond mere response; we anticipate, adapt, and act preemptively. These solutions embody the essence of advanced intelligence, transforming traditional cyber defense into a proactive, resilient, and adaptive strategy. By choosing Leidos, you're not just adapting to the future; you're actively shaping it with the smartest cyber resilience solutions available today.
Full-spectrum Cyber solutions include offensive, defensive, and cyber physical systems. We drive new advances for our customers in the areas of Zero Trust, Cognitive Cyber, Quantum Cryptography, Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM), and more.
Featured
Converged Cyber AI: A Paradigm Shift in Cybersecurity
The advancement of generative AI capabilities presents enormous potential for modernizing government operations but it also introduces new security gaps. While automation allows developers to move from concept to minimum viable product faster than ever, adversaries are developing similar AI-enabled techniques to discover and exploit security vulnerabilities.
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The intersection of AI governance and cybersecurity
Learn about the impact of generative AI on cybersecurity planning and our proactive approach to AI implementation that focuses on governance and ethical use. You'll also hear about the dual nature of cloud computing, acknowledging its power for data accessibility and defensive capabilities and addressing the challenges of multi-cloud environments.
‘We have to find talent’: Cyber leaders push for skills-based hiring
One advocate of skills-based hiring says employers need to stop looking for 'unicorns' and invest more in hands-on training to fill cyber skills gaps. Lynsey Caldwell, cybersecurity workforce program director discusses ways to improve cyber hiring.
The Zero Trust journey: Architecting today for tomorrow’s technologies
Leidos Cybersecurity Thought Leaders David Thurmond and Jesse Peoples discuss the challenges that come with Zero Trust adoption, as well as how capabilities such as Post-Quantum Cryptography and Generative AI can contribute to an organization’s architecture.
Quantum Technologies
Quantum technologies offer critical advantages to inaccessible classical technologies. Collaboration with Leidos’ recognized leaders in cybersecurity, digital modernization, intelligence, defense, AI/ML, and software drives multi-disciplinary innovation with emerging quantum technologies to build practical solutions for our customer’s challenges.
Zero Trust Architectures
Zero Trust is a concept that challenges traditional cybersecurity thinking. It assumes that networks are either actively under attack or already breached.
Security Operations Centers (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.
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.
The new age of cybersecurity
Today’s cybersecurity threat landscape is sophisticated, complex and ever-evolving. Protecting critical networks and data from breaches requires a comprehensive approach that combines top-tier technical expertise, high-end human talent and a culture of excellence. Hover over the images below to learn more about how Leidos approaches combat with the modern cyber adversary.
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.
Cybersecurity
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.
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.
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.
MindSET
Harnessing the power of Quantum Technology
A new frontier for technology is upon us. Quantum Technology is utilizing the fascinating world of quantum physics to revolutionize technology. The practical applications are abundant, and cybersecurity is one of the biggest sectors that stands to gain from this progression. Elizabeth Iwasawa is Leidos' Quantum Technology Lead and a Research Scientist. She explains what Quantum Technology is, why it's revolutionary, and what it means for the future of cybersecurity.
Getting in front of cyberattacks with Beyond Compliance
In the cyber world, the need for security is always increasing. The pace at which threats progress and learn from our security systems means the bare minimum is no longer the minimum. That's why the Beyond Compliance mindset has become crucial for organizations. Meghan Good, SVP. Technology Integration explains what Beyond Compliance means, how it works, and the best way for organizations to begin with this modern-day approach to cybersecurity.
