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SAIC Rugged Apps provides government users with ruggedized, high-security versions of their favorite mobile applications. Rugged Apps is the answer for agencies that need to harden the security of the iOS and Android apps their users rely on daily to carry out their missions, as government cybersecurity compliance requirements expand and tighten.
SAIC offers a continuously growing Rugged Apps catalog with apps in a variety of mission areas that are National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) compliant. We also provide proprietary scanning and testing services to harden any COTS or agency-specific app to NIAP compliance.
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Rugged Apps is built on our proven infrastructure, processes and tools, producing apps that maintain high security posture against evolving cyber threats. In the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program (IGAPP), SAIC delivered secure situational-awareness and geospatial mobile applications to Department of Defense users. Our Rugged Apps team continues this legacy by providing these apps and ruggedizing new apps for any government user, including military, federal agencies, state governments and disaster-response teams.
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SAIC Rugged Apps provides government users with ruggedized, high-security versions of their favorite mobile applications. As government cybersecurity compliance requirements tighten, Rugged Apps is the solution for agencies and personnel that desire secure mobile applications to carry out their daily missions.
Rugged Apps offers a continuously growing catalog of secure mission-critical apps that serve a variety of mission areas, including aviation, maritime, situational awareness, traveler safety, land/field support, disaster response and secure messaging. We also provide proprietary scanning and testing services to bring any government off-the-shelf (GOTS) or agency-specific app up to secure levels.
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Rugged Apps customers can buy apps from our catalog, including the popular Avenza Maps, request new apps and use our scan-as-a-service to identify vulnerabilities in apps and get them ruggedized and secure. SAIC maintains positive control over all apps as well as our trusted app vendors all the way to our distribution into government app channels.
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Use Case 1
In 2021, the President’s Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” was issued to federal leaders to enhance the security and integrity of government software supply chains. Efforts to understand and meet EO 14028’s new compliance requirements are gaining momentum, but many government agencies and military organizations are still not aware of the EO let alone efficient and affordable ways to scan and validate their application software.
Mobile applications are especially of concern as military and agency personnel use them in the field as part of daily missions. DOD and civilian agencies can take months to scan their software for vulnerabilities and remediate them. During this time, new cyber threats will have evolved and made their apps non-compliant or even susceptible to cyberattacks.
The Challenge
SAIC Rugged Apps performs testing on mobile, desktop and server applications, scanning source code to identify security vulnerabilities to guide application developers in ensuring that they are removed. Rugged Apps scans applications to identify vulnerabilities using the National Information Assurance Partnership's (NIAP) Protection Profile for Application Software and other federal and industry-best security programs. We provide a security body of evidence to the customer’s chief information security officer (CISO), as well as a software bill of materials for software supply chain risk management purposes.
The non-invasive scanning approach conducts static code analysis and dependency analysis to identify all open source code and does not alter source code. SAIC analysts merely review findings for teams on how to secure their apps. Our robust, proprietary software scanning tools and processes are the result of our years-long technology investments and work in the legacy Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program (IGAPP), where we delivered mission-critical apps with the highest security postures for DOD users.
The Solution
Scan and Assessment Process is swift and agile, accomplishing software source code scans in days versus months
Scan-as-a-service packages our Scan and Assessment Process in an affordable and priced per scan approach for Government code; we offer quantity discounts and no-cost verification on the final executable app
Government is also able to directly purchase pre-scanned and remediated commercial applications
SAIC maintains positive control over the entire scanning process in our FedRAMP High environment
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SECURE COMMUNICATIONS APP
RUGGED APPS meetS PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER TO SECURE GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN
SAIC’s app software security evaluation solution lets federal agencies quickly and affordably comply with mandated cybersecurity standards
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Use Case 1
U.S. government personnel and military members routinely rely on popular commercial mobile applications to conduct their daily mission tasks. Many commercial apps are developed using open source code that is publicly available, increasing the likelihood that they carry unsafe and even malicious code.
Continuingly strong demand for these apps by DOD and civilian agency users is putting a strain on the government’s stringent cybersecurity policy and requirements. Adding urgency to the matter, an executive order by the president last year, EO 14028, calls for stricter compliance and regulations over IT products and the software supply chain.
For instant messaging and communications, many agency officials and warfighters in the field use WhatsApp, owned by Meta (formerly Facebook). Although WhatsApp is advertised as an encrypted app, there is no guarantee of full trust and security for government users. Their communications may be read, archived and even mined by third parties and even threat actors, compromising operational security.
The Challenge
Rugged Apps offers a ruggedized, high-security version of the commercial app HighSide for secure communications and file sharing for distributed workforces. SAIC worked with HighSide, an industry leader in zero-trust encrypted messaging, voice and video calling and cloud-based file storage and sharing, to thoroughly review the app’s source code and enhance its security to meet National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) standards, which are currently the most stringent in the nation. The NIAP-compliant version allows HighSide to be used in a FedRAMP-authorized or DOD Impact Level-controlled operating environment.
SAIC manages acquisition of the HighSide app via prime contract vehicles, its distribution and billing and payment responsibilities. We maintain positive control over the ruggedized version of HighSide all the way to its distribution to approved users, ensuring end-to-end software supply chain security. HighSide and other Rugged Apps solutions are the result of SAIC’s experience and technical expertise with both government cybersecurity requirements and commercial app solutions gained from our management of the legacy Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program (IGAPP) that developed secure mission-critical apps for DOD users.
The Solution
HighSide enables government team members to text and make voice and video calls plus store, access and share sensitive data in an encrypted, secure and NIAP-compliant environment
SAIC provides end-to-end service for the app, including enterprise-level distribution through secure app stores connected to government mobile device management systems
SAIC tests HighSide and other commercial apps against the NIAP mobile protection profile with each new release by their developers; without exception, every single app version is tested
Evaluation of app source code is done in our secure FedRAMP High testing environment using our Scan and Assessment Process
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SAIC offers a fully vetted, government-compliant alternative to popular but untrusted messaging and collaboration apps
RUGGED APPS SHIELDS GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, TROOPS FROM CYBER THREATS
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Use Case 1
U.S. military and intelligence community members plus civilian disaster-relief, land management and forest service professionals, among others, rely on GPS and digital mapping technology to fulfill mission-critical objectives. Many commercial global positioning and mapping apps share geolocation information publicly, potentially creating security issues for government and military users and their organizations.
For example, U.S. military installations have banned personal fitness devices because their geolocation features showed military members’ movement patterns. When this data was aggregated, it showed not only the outlines of military bases but also highly populated areas within, such as gyms, presenting soft targets to be possibly exploited.
The Challenge
Rugged Apps offers a ruggedized version of the commercial mapping app Avenza Maps that is compliant with the government’s authoritative National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) mobile protection profile. The ruggedized Avenza Maps is a proven solution that goes back years to SAIC’s work with developer Avenza Systems in the legacy Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program (IGAPP) that delivered secure mission-critical apps for DOD users.
Avenza Maps: Rugged Apps Edition has the highest security posture, giving DOD and civilian map users a safe and secure way to complete their daily missions amid unrelenting and evolving cyber threats. The mapping app works offline and has the most up-to-date geographic information, marking features, field data collection and sharing capabilities and one of the largest digital map catalogs available with exclusive maps from the U.S. Geological Survey, Forest Service, FAA and NOAA.
Each release of Avenza Maps has undergone SAIC’s proprietary source code scanning and testing methodology, developed from our IGAPP engagement, to verify NIAP compliance. Our longstanding partnership with the developer has ensured positive control over the source code and the app’s distribution for airtight software supply chain security.
The Solution
Avenza Maps works while online or without a network connection using the device’s built-in GPS; imports and exports users’ own custom maps, team maps and data; collects and manages field data; provides advanced tools such as geofencing; and downloads published and government-exclusive maps from an extensive catalog
SAIC provides end-to-end service for the app, including enterprise-level acquisition and distribution through private app stores connected to government mobile device management systems, and handles billing and payment responsibilities
Scanning of app source code is done in our secure FedRAMP High testing environment using our Scan and Assessment Process
NIAP-compliant app provides unparalleled operational security and a safe experience for users in military and intelligence, disaster relief and land management
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SAIC offers fully secure and compliant Avenza Maps, a mobile mapping app that’s proven in government field use
RUGGED APPS PREVENTS UNWANTED GEOLOCATION OF TROOPS AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
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