DHS Awards Federal Cybersecurity Contract to CenturyLink

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications gave CenturyLink a task order to provide Einstein 3 Accelerated intrusion prevention security services to federal civilian agencies, the company said Monday. DHS’s Einstein program measures network traffic patterns to indicate possible malicious cyberactivity, CenturyLink said. DHS gave the company the one-year task order in 2013. The new task order asks the telco to provide additional managed security services beyond those included in the original task order by integrating with CenturyLink systems specifically designed to provide cybersecurity services for federal agencies, the company said.