Washington, November 11th / PRNewswire / -- Reach Security Today, it was announced that we are collaborating with Knox Systems ( Knox ) to advance the Level 5 authorization for the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency ( DISA ). Reach Security claims that its AI can run security defenses at machine speed; Knox is one of the largest and longest-operating federal managed cloud service providers.
IL5 is a stringent standard established by the U.S. Department of War ( DoW ), which allows cloud services to host controlled non-classified information ( CUI ) as well as data from non-classified national security systems, thereby accelerating the adoption of secure commercial cloud solutions in the most sensitive non-classified tasks of the Department of War.
National defense and federal security teams typically operate complex environments composed of various tools. Misconfigurations, underutilized features, and configuration drift can all lead to blind spots. These issues are difficult to detect manually, yet attackers driven by AI can exploit them quickly. Reach Security represents a single trusted source of security control for these teams, indicating which existing defenses are capable of stopping certain types of attacks. It prioritizes actions based on real risks and available control capabilities, fixes vulnerabilities, or deploys compensatory controls, while continuously verifying that these controls remain in line with security policies.
According to Reach Security, its mission is to help security teams to close any defensive gaps before attackers driven by AI can exploit them, while ensuring that security controls are in line with organizational policies and established security baselines. This platform provides a AI native operating system for security control, continuously analyzing security control planes at various levels such as identities, endpoints, email, firewalls, Security Access Service Edge (SASE), and other critical defense layers.
Reach Security CEO and Co-Founder Garrett Hamilton stated: " AI enables attackers to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed, while federal defenders need this kind of cyclical blue team capability. Reach Security transforms the attacks and exposures discovered by opponents and the red team into defensive actions, utilizing the security controls already in place within the organization to quickly deploy remedial or compensatory controls to block them before the attackers can take advantage. Collaborating with Knox to advance DISA IL5 is a crucial step in bringing this type of autonomous defense into the most important and highly regulated environments."
The IL5 deployment area of Knox is designed to meet the higher security, isolation, and operational requirements necessary for high-impact defense missions, while also facilitating technology companies to enter this environment more quickly. Knox states that by avoiding the need for enterprises to build and operate their own independent IL5 environments, Knox will help Reach Security significantly reduce compliance time and costs, and provide the institutions with the speed, visibility, and automation capabilities needed to keep up with modern adversaries.
Knox Systems CEO Irina Denisenko stated: "Each network of the Ministry of War is layered with identity verification, endpoints, email systems, firewalls, and SASE defense measures, and the strength of each layer depends on its configuration. By clearing the pathways for Reach Security to enter IL5, Knox is helping the national defense security team continuously verify whether their control measures are functioning as required by policy, and all of this takes place within the boundaries of the most sensitive, non-classified workloads."
For information on AI's native operating system, which is designed for security control by Reach Security, please visit reach.security; for guidance on how to obtain DISA IL5 authorization with the help of Knox, please visit knoxsystems.com.
About Reach Security
Reach Security provides a credible single source of truth for the security controls of entire enterprises. Driven by definitive AI, this solution continuously discovers, analyzes, verifies, and optimizes security controls, helping organizations identify attack pathways, reduce risks, and prove that protective measures are functioning as expected. Through its continuously expanding Reach Everywhere ecosystem, which includes integrations with API and AI interfaces, Reach directly brings the verified security control data into the platforms, workflows, and AI systems where security decisions are made. By enabling organizations to operate at machine speed while maintaining confidence in their defenses, Reach helps security teams more quickly close exposed vulnerabilities, enhance resilience, and securely scale out security operations driven by AI. For more information, please visit www.reach.security.
About Knox Systems
Knox Systems operates the largest federal managed cloud and is trusted by top institutions and partners in both defense and civilian sectors. Knox focuses on speed, resilience, and compliance, and is capable of delivering FedRAMP authorizations within 90 days, transforming the biggest bottlenecks in government IT into the fastest path to modernization. Knox is proud to provide services for Adobe, Celonis, OutSystems, Armis, BigID, and many other AI and SaaS providers, accelerating security innovation in the federal sector. For more information, please visit knoxsystems.com.
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