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Endgame Lands $1 Million Contract From U.S. Navy

Endgame, an Arlington, VA-based supplier of advanced endpoint protection software, has been awarded a $1 million contract by the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet. The purpose of the contract is to protect more than 500,000 computers and ships’ hull, mechanical and electrical systems, weapons and navigation systems, aviation systems, and the technology controlling physical devices on bases and facilities. 

Endgame, an Arlington, VA-based supplier of advanced endpoint protection software, has been awarded a $1 million contract by the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet. The purpose of the contract is to protect more than 500,000 computers and ships’ hull, mechanical and electrical systems, weapons and navigation systems, aviation systems, and the technology controlling physical devices on bases and facilities. 

Endgame is honored to enter this partnership with the U.S. Navy,” said Nate Fick, Endgame CEO and U.S. military combat veteran. “The Navy is widely known as being on the cutting-edge of cybersecurity defenses, and we were happy to exceed their protection requirements during this competitive process. Safeguarding the most targeted organizations across the Department of Defense is an important part of our mission, and we look forward to continuing it with the Navy.”

Endgame LogoFleet Cyber Command is the central cyber authority for the entire U.S. Navy, serving (in its own words), “to direct Navy cyberspace operations globally to deter and defeat aggression and to ensure freedom of action to achieve military objectives in and through cyberspace.”

Specifically, the contract is for the acquisition of the Endgame Hunt Team Platform with 10,000 sensors, plus maintenance and support.

Endgame credits the contract to its existing history in protecting both federal government and the U.S. military, and its ability to protect against targeted attack techniques and technologies outlined in the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix. In 2016 it was awarded an $18.8 million contract by the U.S. Air Force.

The Navy’s contract justification and approval document is more specific: “Delivered as a single agent, replacing the functions of AV, NGAV, IR, EDR, and exploit prevention agents, Endgame stops all targeted attacks and their components.” It scans for vulnerabilities, compares against current STIG checklists, and conducts “if-then scenarios with secondary and tertiary effects (also known as a blast radius)…”

The STIG checklist is a NIST Windows 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide designed to improve the security of Department of Defense information systems. Endgame automatically maps the network against the STIG checklist to evaluate the network’s security posture.

While stressing that FLTCYBER will continue to monitor the evolution of EDR, EPP and Next Gen AV technologies that could compete with Endgame in the future, it found that no other single technology currently provides all of its requirements. While combinations of other products could provide much of its required functionality, some requirements could still only be found in Endgame.

Of particular note is Endgame’s ability to calculate the “blast radius” on a compromised box. Applied to cybersecurity, the blast radius is the potential effect on the overall network from a compromise. Network segmentation can, for example, limit the blast radius. Endgame’s ability to apply ‘what-if’ scenarios can help security teams determine whether their network configuration is able to contain a potential compromise.

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“No other product has been found by the FLTCYBER team at this time that can perform the blast radius function of Endgame,” the Navy explained. “This has been identified as a key requirement by FLTCYBER.”

Endgame was founded in 2008 by Chris Rouland and other executives who previously worked with the CIA and Internet Security Systems. It originally discovered and sold 0-day vulnerabilities, but shifted away from this around 2014. Under Fick’s leadership it has grown its commercial offering using a $23 million Series B funding round in March 2013 followed by a $30 million Series C round in November 2014. 

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Kevin Townsend is a Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek. He has been writing about high tech issues since before the birth of Microsoft. For the last 15 years he has specialized in information security; and has had many thousands of articles published in dozens of different magazines – from The Times and the Financial Times to current and long-gone computer magazines.

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