Maryland-based security agency Analygence has landed the job of serving to the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise (NIST) cut back mounting backlog of entries within the US Nationwide Vulnerability Database (NVD), an company consultant stated Tuesday.
“I can affirm that Analygence, Inc. received a aggressive process order for processing assist for incoming CVEs for inclusion within the NVD. The bottom quantity of that process order is $865,657,” NIST spokesman Wealthy Press stated in an e mail. The contract, which took impact Could 8, merely outlines that the agency will present cybersecurity evaluation and e mail assist to the NIST.
The award is a part of an five-year $125-million framework settlement (or indefinite supply/indefinite amount contract, in US Federal authorities parlance) for Analygence and two different corporations to supply assist companies to NIST.