Modern applications are evolving faster, growing more complex, and becoming increasingly distributed. The Navy faces many challenges in securing, operating, and defending their complex cyber landscape, but the current implementation of the Navy’s Risk Management Framework (RMF) is labor intensive, time consuming, and expensive. The manual and siloed approach to RMF increases operational risk as the attack surface continually evolves and expands. When you need to operate at the speed of war, relying on humans and manual RMF activities is too time intensive and reactive.

These factors increase the meantime to identify and repair problems. Technica understands how imperative it is that personnel responsible for securing, operating, and defending the cyber environment have the necessary capabilities to accurately assess the cybersecurity posture with speed, provide a true understanding of the operational risk of cybersecurity exploitation or the resultant operational risk to platform (ship, sub, aircraft, building, etc.), missions, and Navy/Joint operations, including operations in cyberspace. Given the complexity of the cyber domain, there is a need to introduce more automation to permit operators near real-time understanding of the cyber battlespace or to provide them with the ability to operate and maneuver networks to minimize the attack surface exposed to adversaries.