The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on April 1 issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking support services for its Security Operations Center (SOC), thereby allowing the department to accomplish the mission to monitor, detect, analyze, mitigate, and response to cyber threats and adversarial activity on the DHS enterprise.
The department plans to award a single award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $395 million over seven years.
Core required services include network monitoring and security event analysis, email security monitoring and analysis, computer security incident response and management, vulnerability assessment, security engineering, cyber intelligence support, intrusion analysis, and continuity of operations for SOC services.
The SOC is a single point of reporting and management for information security incidents across the DHS enterprise. The center monitors and responds to security events and incidents at DHS-managed Trusted Internet Connection Gateways and component-managed Policy Enforcement Point security stacks, and directs and coordinates detection and response activities performed by each component SOC.
The DHS SOC is also responsible for coordinating and forwarding incident reports to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Teams and other external entities. Sol. No. HSHQDC-16-R-00004. Respond by May 13. Contact: Scott Simpson, [email protected], 202-447-5661.