Transportation Security Administration to entrust SRA with development of cyber security operations center
FAIRFAX, Va., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX), a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, announced it has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under the EAGLE contract vehicle to monitor their information technology (IT) enterprise and assess IT security threats. The task order value is over $53 million, if all options are exercised, and will provide core primary and failover security operations center (SOC) services for up to five years.
TSA is responsible for security of the nation's transportation systems involving cooperation with state, local and regional partners. To maintain the highest levels of security, TSA requires a partner to monitor their IT enterprise by detecting, analyzing and coordinating the response to cyber attacks. SRA will provide a fully outsourced SOC solution that leverages robust physical and technology platforms with proven SOC operations best practices.
"The SOC's mission is of national importance and the SRA team will partner with TSA to ensure their IT environment remains a secure enabler for transportation security," said SRA Senior Vice President, National Security Sector, Pat Burke. "The SRA approach allows TSA to shift focus from reactive incident response to proactive attack prevention, and provides a reliable, scalable service that can easily adapt to changes in TSA's IT environment."
SRA's managed service solution provides coverage 24 hours a day ensuring there is no disruption to cyber security monitoring and incident response services. SRA also will assess vulnerabilities and emerging IT security threats and will evaluate IT solutions prior to their deployment in the TSA IT environment.
SRA's team includes three partners -- InScope Solutions, SE Solutions and Verizon Business.
Numerous large federal agencies, law enforcement organizations and the intelligence community rely on SRA's cyber professionals for their deep experience with establishing, maintaining and protecting large-scale infrastructures. SRA is supporting the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security on their Security Assurance Services and Innovation (SASI) contract and is providing global information assurance services.
SRA pioneers cyber security technologies, develops trusted and validated operational methodologies, which is supported by highly skilled and innovative cyber operators.
