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Telos Wins $27 Million Air Force Contract For Cyber Security Upgrade In De-Militarized Zone

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

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The U.S. Air Force awarded the cybersecurity/information technology (IT) company Telos Corporation a $27 million contract to upgrade the service’s De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) networking equipment, the company said Wednesday.Under the contract, Telos will modify and replace the DMZ equipment by upgrading networking equipment like firewall, intrusion prevention and detection systems, anti-virus software, web-portal capability, and security management systems.The DMZ is a strip of land across the Korean peninsula acting as a buffer zone between North and South Korea since the…

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