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DHS Awards CenturyLink Contract to Implement Cyber Intrusion Prevention Capability

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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As part of its plan to better protect federal computer networks from cyber threats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a month ago awarded the telecommunications firm CenturyLink [CTL] a contract to begin monitoring the Internet traffic of its government customers to detect and prevent malicious cyber attacks against those networks, a department official says. The award to CenturyLink was made as part of the Einstein 3 Accelerated (E3A) program, Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary for the Office of Cyber…

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