Notice End Date: October 27, 2022

Vendor Name: Forewarned

Contract Amount: $54,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Kevin Finan

Agency Procurement Manager Email: kfinan@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 1-864-656-9856

The Agency hereby provides notice that it intends to enter into a sole source contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1560 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

Clemson intends to sole source the purchase of STINGAR security automation software platform because STINGAR is a security automation software platform that uses honeypots to remove unwanted or malicious traffic from enterprise networks. STINGAR is a homegrown platform from Duke University primarily used by Higher Ed institutions. STINGAR can integrate with our existing networking equipment, like Firewalls and Routers, to improve the overall performance of your network defenses by performing real-time threat blocking. With STINGAR we will be able to take advantage of: Shared Threat Intelligence -Provides real-time visibility of cyber attacks -Shared threat data between all partners, which intern improves the defenses of all partners -The network effect: Shared data value grows with more users Network Gatekeeping -Real-time threat blocking at the network edge -Sophisticated “block list” processing avoids false positives Automated Response -Provides Automatic Threat detection & Response in real-time -Sub-second response time from intrusion detection to blocking -Improves quality & utilization of existing network defenses -Reduces workload of Security/Incident Response Teams -Saves operating cost Some of the possible results upon deployment could be: Improved network security & reduced operating costs -Removal of lousy traffic from enterprise networks -Increase in blocks -@Duke from ~10M to over 1B blocks per day -Reduction of intrusions -@Duke >100x increase in blocked intrusion attempts -Automation with STINGAR reduced SOC workload & lowered operating costs -Dramatic reduction in daily IDS alerts (>90%) -Realtime shared threat data blocks >75% of attacks before they are detected -Enhanced protection against DDoS-style attacks To summarize, I believe adding STINGAR to our tool arsenal would increase our real-time visibility of cyber-attacks on our network. It would drastically help with real-time threat blocking at the network edge, allowing the team to focus on items that get through our defenses faster by reducing the noise.

Bidder’s right to protest as listed in Section 11-35-4210 in the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code applies to this announcement of an emergency procurement.
Protest to be filed with:
Chief Procurement Officer
Materials Management Office
1201 Main Street, Suite 600
Columbia, SC 29201
Facsimile: 803-737-0639
E-mail: protest-mmo@mmo.sc.gov

 

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Agency Procurement Manager (Listed Above)

PROTESTS:
Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract, shall notify the appropriate chief Procurement officer in writing of its intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this notice is posted. Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor who is aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract and has timely notified the appropriate chief procurement officer of its intent to protest, may protest to the appropriate chief procurement officer in the manner set forth below within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted; except that a matter that could have been raised as a protest of the solicitation may not be raised as a protest of the award or intended award of a contract.
A protest must be in writing, filed with the appropriate chief procurement officer, and set forth the grounds of the protest and the relief requested with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. The protest must be received by the appropriate chief procurement officer within the time provided above. Days are calculated as provided in S.C. Code Ann. § 11-35-310(13).

Any Notice Of Intent To Protest And Protest Must Be Addressed To: Information Technology Management Officer