Government Security News August Digital Edition

Cypherpath, Quali partnership provides portable
containerized infrastructures that support virtual
sandboxes and cyber ranges
SANTA CLARA, CA, Aug. 23, 2016
– Quali, the leading Cloud Sandbox
software platform for DevOps
automation, and Cypherpath, the
leader in on-demand containerized
infrastructure solutions, today
announced the integration of
the Cypherpath Virtual Container
Platform (VCP) with the Quali
CloudShell solution. Through this
partnership, joint customers are
using on-demand containerized
infrastructures to create and manage
cyber ranges and private cloud
sandboxes. Through full infrastructure
and IT environment virtualization,
customers are saving millions
of dollars in costs associated with
creating, delivering and managing
the full stack of physical compute,
network and storage resources in
highly secure containers.
A cyber range, or cloud sandbox,
gives enterprises the ability to rapidly
reconfigure IT environments
for use by individuals and teams
to conduct offensive and defensive
cyber-mission rehearsal training,
tool-specific training, software
evaluation, and configuration testing.
Most organizations lack the
budget and manpower resources
required to deploy large scale, nonproduction
cyber environments
using existing enterprise tools and
many solutions available to them
do not include the ability to rapidly
change, add, modify and control the
environments.
By leveraging the partnership,
value added reseller (VAR) TSI was
able to provide ManTech International
Corporation the technology
needed to give DISA a fully virtualized
lab infrastructure, complete
with integrated virtual sandboxing
and cyber range capabilities. With
this full stack, DISA is able to use
the lab to develop, test and run infrastructure
in private clouds or
bare-metal servers without requiring
the agency to adopt proprietary
tools, saving both time and money.
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“DISA is responsible for supporting
a critical element of our national
defense strategy, which is the sharing
of information between joint
warfighters, national leaders, and
other mission and coalition partners,”
said Ernest McCaleb, Man-
Tech technical director and DISA
Cyber Security Range chief architect.
“This fast, simple and cost effective
solution provides us with the
ability to fulfill our mission without
sacrificing performance or security,
and deliver the Multiprotocol Label
Switching stack at a fraction of the
cost.”
Through this partnership, joint
customers can:
• Use on-demand infrastructure
to support private cloud sandboxes
in mission ready cyber ranges
• Define, deploy and manage fully
containerized IT infrastructure ondemand
while providing the agility
to share and collaborate between
nodes, networks, bare-metal servers
and private clouds
• Significantly reduce investment
in new physical data center resources
and technologies by virtualizing
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