The Defense Information Systems Agency announced on LinkedIn Tuesday that it has launched a new cyber defense tool in December 2024, aimed at significantly enhancing the U.S. Navy Readiness Reporting Enterprise, or NRRE, service provider.
What Is Endguard?
The agency’s Endguard cybersecurity platform, approved by the Strategic Resourcing and Requirements Council, utilizes Microsoft Defender to safeguard vulnerable endpoints like laptops and internet-enabled sensors through endpoint detection and response, along with managed threat hunting in a single platform.
The NRRE is the first major customer to onboard Endguard. It is a family of systems working together to provide the Navy with timely readiness posture assessment and reporting, as well as crucial commands backed up by fleet preparedness data to support decision-making at various levels.
DISA expects a total of 192 cybersecurity service providers to migrate to Endguard by 2027. The agency’s cybersecurity service provider teams are focusing on supporting the initial datacenter deployment. The DISA Cybersecurity Service Provider collects raw data through the Microsoft Defender for Servers, boosting its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployment for server workloads. The collected information is then utilized by analysts for expanded threat hunting, targeting sophisticated attacks like ‘Living Off the Land’ binaries.
Deric Bumbaugh, customer management team lead at DISA, stated, “The service delivery that DISA Cybersecurity Service Provider provides to customers ultimately secures the DOD data inside of the mission space. With Endguard, we have the ability to interact in real time, and the collaboration between us and the MP is essential to level-set expectations between the two parties.”
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