The US Navy has partnered with cybersecurity provider Trellix to upgrade the protection of the service’s enterprise grid.
The agreement will see the Texas-based company supply its proprietary Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) which offers detection and emulation applications, hybrid physical/virtual environment infrastructure protection, and simplified management.
Trellix noted that the software is a critical part of the firm’s Network Detect and Response (NDR) suite, which delivers fast intrusion containment, attack campaign simulation, and cyber weak point elimination at an enterprise level.
“Defense organizations depend on robust cybersecurity to counter covert threats from nation-states and malicious actors aiming to infiltrate networks for activities like espionage,” Trellix Chief Product Officer Gareth Maclachlan stated.
“As the Navy moves toward full adoption of NDR, network defense mainstays like IPS are critical for both establishing baseline network behavior patterns and advantage of response capabilities to remediate the threat of suspicious network traffic.”
“With Trellix IPS, they have a next-generation intrusion detection and prevention system that discovers and blocks sophisticated threats across the network.”
Trellix’s contract follows the company’s achievement earlier this month of a US Department of Defense Impact Level 5 High Provisional Authorization for its cloud processing optimizer solution.