www.disa.mil down?

Published: 2011-11-15. Last Updated: 2011-11-15 01:15:44 UTC
by Adrien de Beaupre (Version: 1)
14 comment(s)

The web server behind disa.mil appears to be down. It currently resolves to 156.112.108.76 but it is sending RST to requests. Thanks Paul for noticing and writing in!

Cheers,
Adrien de Beaupré
intru-shun.ca
Teaching SANS Sec560 in Toronto #sanstoronto, 21-26 Nov 2011
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I imagine thousands of web servers go down everyday. What am I missing about this particular system from a security perspective?

dsh

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency that provides information technology (IT) and communications support to the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, the military Services, and the Combatant Commands.
It handles the C&C of the DOD SIPRNET (Secure Internet), NIPRNET (Non-Secure Internet), 13 Regional NOC’s, etc.

Itsup2u

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

Thx, Itsup2u. Are we to assume the US is under attack or that its a config/maint snafu as I read the FBI DNSSEC issue to be? Guess my point is that I feel the initial post might be premature w/o other info.

dsh

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

DISA's been down since at least yesterday afternoon. I think I started trying the IASE portal at 1:00 PM -ish with no luck. I halfway assumed that the problems might be related to the FBI.gov problems, but FBI is up this morning.

Well, no STIGs for me. I don't know whether to dig out the tinfoil hat or just call it a day.

ALR

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

There's no attack, just a hardware failure on the SAN.

tnc

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

Up here --> http://diicoe.disa.mil/

fmc

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

@dsh, The fact that this site is down affects all DoD security personnel that may need access to current STIGs, SRRs, Retina scan updates and other information required as part of the DIACAP process. No one said "The US is under attack". They merely noted that a key information security resource is unavailable.

lonegeek05

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

Thx, lonegeek05. Regardless of the reason for the outage, it'll be an interesting case study in BCP. Especially given the amount of $$$ the DOD has and the importance of the site.

dsh

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

The STIGS and other IA resources are still available through the DoD IA Portal on DKO. The same can't be said for DISA's Vulnerability Management System. This doesn't bode well for DISA Computing Services Directorate or their customers.

tnc

Nov 15th 2011
1 decade ago

4 days now!? Anyone know what's going on?

@tnc, what's the URL for the DKO portal?

lonegeek05

Nov 17th 2011
1 decade ago

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