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GSA rethinks FIDNet solution
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:46:29 -0500
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0717/web-fidnet-07-19-00.asp BY Diane Frank 07/19/2000 The General Services Administration this week decided to delay its acquisition of a governmentwide system to detect cyberattacks so that the agency can better align the request for proposals with commercial market solutions. GSA released a draft RFP for the Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNet) last month and tried to leave the solicitation open enough for vendors to offer a system specially developed for the government or a solution based on commercial managed security services. FIDNet is intended to provide a central place for correlating information from civilian agencies intrusion-detection sensors. The comments received from agencies and industry, however, have pushed GSA to rewrite the draft so that it focuses on managed security service offerings in which the vendor would staff the system and monitor its output. "We tried to encapsulate both [solutions] in that draft...and the comments we got back basically reflected "Youre straddling the fence here concerns," said Darwyn Banks, program manager for FIDNet. "Managed security services seemed to be the better solution for the government at this point for ease of use and what makes sense." The new version of the draft RFP should be available for comment by September, Banks said. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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