The Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper (SSA) is building up the chamber’s cybersecurity posture and wants to know how the private sector can help.
The Senate office of the CIO published a sources-sought notice looking for vendors that can provide support services for the office’s cybersecurity information assurance operations (IAO). Potential vendors would work in the OCIO cybersecurity department alongside SSA employees.
Notice: Cybersecurity Information Assurance Operations Support Services
“The Information Assurance team is a newly developed team in the cybersecurity department focused solely on IAO activities to maximize the capability of the cybersecurity department to promote risk based decision making and perform proactive, predictive and adaptive cybersecurity operations,” according to the notice on FedBizOps.
The office is primarily looking for support services in three areas:
- Leveraging industry expertise, state-of-the-art technology, tactics, techniques and best practices regarding risk management frameworks.
- Developing and validating cybersecurity mitigation strategies/security controls.
- Balancing operational risk with cybersecurity risk.
The sources-sought notice includes three questions for companies about how they can assist SSA in these areas. Responses are due by 6 p.m. on April 29.
The April 18 notice is only to pre-qualify vendors for a potential future request for proposals, however interested companies should be sure to respond.
The sergeant at arms put out a sources-sought notice for a threat analysis team back in December. The office picked seven vendors from that pool in March to submit proposals.
