Lockheed Receives DHS Cyber Services Accreditation; Rich Mahler Comments

Lockheed Martin has received an authorization from the Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity services to federal government clients.

The company will have access to DHS’ classified cybersecurity threat data under the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services information sharing program to help the department protect organizations from cyber attacks, Lockheed said Monday.

“We’ll integrate the Department of Homeland Security’s ECS data with our customer’s cybersecurity threat protection programs to give their networks an important cyber-defense edge,” said Rich Mahler, director of commercial markets at Lockheed.

The Lockheed ECS system works to isolate compromised e-mail and counter DNS-based attacks and the company says its threat protection service will also incorporate ECS information.

DHS expanded its ECS program to all critical infrastructure companies in February 2013.