{"id":247406,"date":"2026-05-15T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/by-light-lands-792m-in-disa-cybersecurity-contracts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:00:22","slug":"by-light-lands-792m-in-disa-cybersecurity-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/by-light-lands-792m-in-disa-cybersecurity-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"By Light Lands $792M in DISA Cybersecurity Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/articles\/by-light-792m-disa-cybersecurity-contracts\">By Light Lands $792M in DISA Cybersecurity Contracts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/articles\/by-light-792m-disa-cybersecurity-contracts\">https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/articles\/by-light-792m-disa-cybersecurity-contracts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 11:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.executivebiz.com\">www.executivebiz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DISA awards By Light nearly $792 million in cybersecurity contracts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Programs support secure internet access and enterprise threat inspection<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The CBII contract adds AI-enabled tools for detecting and mitigating cyberthreats<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded By Light Professional IT Services two cybersecurity contracts, totaling $791.9 million, to strengthen the Department of War\u2019s enterprise cyber defense and secure internet access capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>DISA posted award notices on Tuesday on SAM.gov: a $298.1 million Cloud Based Internet Isolation, or CBII, contract and a separate $493.9 million Full Content Inspection, or FCI, managed service contract.<\/p>\n<p>Under the CBII award, By Light will provide enterprise-wide remote browser isolation services using Menlo Security\u2019s Cloud Browser platform to support approximately 3.2 million users throughout the DOW. The cloud-based isolation capability is intended to protect personnel from web-based cyberthreats by separating internet activity from endpoint devices through a secure cloud environment.<\/p>\n<p>The follow-on contract renews existing Menlo Security subscription licenses, adds new licenses and integrates Menlo\u2019s Highly Evasive and Adaptive Threats Shield artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>DISA\u2019s presolicitation notice stated the procurement was limited to authorized Menlo Security resellers with active Secret facility clearances.<\/p>\n<h2>How Does the FCI Program Expand DISA\u2019s Cyber Defense Architecture?<\/h2>\n<p>The larger FCI contract requires enterprise managed services designed to inspect, analyze and mitigate cyberthreats traversing the Defense Information Systems Network, or DISN.<\/p>\n<p>According to a redacted justification and approval document, the FCI platform combines legacy intrusion prevention system capabilities with newer technologies, including network detection and response and content disarm and reconstruct.<\/p>\n<p>DISA said the managed service enables advanced threat detection, real-time mitigation and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/articles\/by-light-792m-disa-cybersecurity-contracts\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Light Lands $792M in DISA Cybersecurity Contracts https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/articles\/by-light-792m-disa-cybersecurity-contracts Publish Date: 2026-05-15 11:07:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.executivebiz.com\/2026\/05\/by-light.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-247406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247408,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247406\/revisions\/247408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}