CounterCraft wins Defense Department contract to provide deception technology solution
CounterCraft, a provider of defense and threat intelligence technology, was awarded a Defense Department production contract designed to let the company more quickly and easily scale their deception technology solution across the DoD.
This contract is the next step from CounterCraft’s prototype contract through the Defense Innovation Unit, allowing the DoD to enhance cyber threat detection and intelligence-gathering capabilities, according to the company.
The contract will deliver DoD an array of functionality, including:
- Advanced Threat Detection and Response
- Local Indicators of Compromise
- Machine-Readable Threat Intelligence
- Proactive Threat Hunting
- Active Attacker Engagement
This contract allows CounterCraft’s Cyber Deception Platform to be used not just with back-office software but high-priority operational units. CounterCraft’s platform uses deception environments to detect and alert unauthorized adversarial activity. CounterCraft’s technology has been used extensively in military wargames including work at NATO level with Nation State level red teams, according to the announcement.
This move to a production Other Transaction contract means CounterCraft will provide not just software licensing but technology, servicing, training, support and production-level resilience across the DoD.
The production OT contract is a result of an early-2019 prototype OT contract with DIU. DIU’s mission is to prototype and then scale cutting-edge commercial technology for use in the national security domain. Working with our strategic subcontractor, Parsons Corporation, a leader in cybersecurity support to the DoD, CounterCraft is ready to deliver the same capability to many other organizations across the DoD and potentially across the U.S. Government.
