Squirrel Defender
Analytics-Driven Risk Management

Continuous STIG Compliance Automation for Modern DoW Networks

Squirrel Defender improves your security posture quickly and efficiently by automating the auditing, reporting, and remediation of network infrastructure security controls. Designed for Department of War environments, Squirrel Defender replaces manual compliance processes with continuous, scalable automation aligned to RMF-driven operations.

Compliance Monitoring

Our solution provides interactive remediation to automate the implementation of security controls. This capability further decreases the time for vulnerabilities to be corrected and reduces your attack surface.

Built-in Remediation

Our service allows you to audit your environment daily (or more often) to improve situational awareness of your security and RMF posture.

Improve Staff Efficiency

By automating time-consuming audits, we allow your staff to increase focus on the mission and operating your organizations network infrastructure.

Squirrel Defender supports the following compliance/risk management frameworks:

Support

STIGs
• NDM
• Layer 2
• Layer 3
• VPN
• ALG
• IDPS
• Network WLAN
• Firewall

Platforms
• Cisco
• Juniper
• Aruba
• Arista
• Palo Alto

Reporting Format
• STIG Viewer Checklist-CKL
• Native CSV Findings Report
• Findings Trends Dashboard

Modern network architectures require a modern approach to compliance.

Squirrel Defender v2.3 MR1 expands the Squirrel Defender platform with native Cisco SD-WAN support, delivering continuous auditing, reporting, and guided remediation across policy-driven network fabrics. Built for modernized DoD environments, MR1 provides fabric-wide visibility into compliance posture while reducing manual effort and improving operational consistency.

Rather than point-in-time, device-by-device assessments, MR1 enables continuous compliance monitoring across distributed SD-WAN environments

Native Cisco SD-WAN Compliance Automation (MR1)

Fabric-Wide Visibility

Immediate compliance visibility across SD-WAN fabrics
Policy-aware validation aligned to SD-WAN architectures
Structured data collection for modern controller-based networks

Guided, Automated Remediation

Template-based remediation workflows
Reduced misconfiguration risk across dynamic fabrics
Elimination of manual, script-driven CLI fixes

Continuous Monitoring

Ongoing compliance validation across sites, regions, and enclaves
Machine-generated artifacts for assessors and auditors
Improved readiness for continuous assessments

Built for DoW Modernization

Squirrel Defender MR1 supports Department of War modernization initiatives by enabling a fabric-aware approach to STIG compliance automation across SD-WAN environments.The platform:

Supports Zero Trust initiatives and cATO efforts
Aligns with RMF and CORA processes
Operates at enterprise and warfighter scale

ThiTrd-Party Inventory Integrations

Third-Party Integration

Squirrel Defender simplifies asset management by integrating directly with Cisco Catalyst Center and SolarWinds, providing a centralized view of network inventory across your environment. Administrators can securely connect one or more inventory sources, including multiple instances of Catalyst Center or SolarWinds, to support complex enterprise and mission networks.

Once connected, Squirrel Defender continuously synchronizes with each source to identify new, updated, or missing devices. Organizations can also initiate manual synchronizations whenever needed, ensuring inventory data remains accurate and up to date.

To maintain administrative control, all discovered inventory changes are placed in the Defender Staging Grid for review before being incorporated into the managed asset inventory. This review process allows teams to validate changes and prevent unintended modifications to their operational asset records.

Administrators can approve, ignore, or remove discovered devices individually or in bulk, while also assigning source priorities to determine which inventory source should be considered authoritative when duplicate assets are identified. This approach provides greater accuracy, flexibility, and confidence in maintaining an audit-ready inventory across the enterprise.

Key Benefits

Native integration with Cisco Catalyst Center and SolarWinds
Continuous inventory synchronization and device discovery
Centralized staging and review of inventory changes
Administrator-controlled approval workflows
Bulk asset management capabilities
Configurable source prioritization for shared assets
Improved inventory accuracy and audit readiness

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Our service automates the tedious manual process of determining if network devices are configured in accordance with the appropriate RMF security controls.

Hours to perform 52 audits per year

Per Thousand Hours

The level of effort required to assess and maintain network infrastructure is a significant barrier to operating secure environments. The estimated time to assess compliance with the appropriate RMF security controls is one personnel hour per device per audit*.

Our service enables assessment of a device in under 7.5 seconds**.

Number of Devices

* Based on assessing all appropriate regulatory standards for all appropriate components of each device

** Performance can vary between customer environments based on the number of interfaces and server resources.

Enterprise-Scale Compliance Automation

The level of effort required to assess and maintain network infrastructure is a major barrier to operating secure environments. Traditional compliance validation can require approximately one personnel hour per device per audit.

Squirrel Defender reduces this effort dramatically by enabling automated compliance validation in seconds.This automation:

Minimizes operational overhead
Maintains capability through staffing changes
Updates audit policies as regulatory requirements evolve
Provides ongoing support through subscription services

Enterprise-Ready by Design

Squirrel Defender v2.3 MR1 is engineered for large-scale, mission-critical networks, supporting hundreds to thousands of sites without sacrificing performance or accuracy.The platform integrates with:

SD-WAN controllers
Network management platforms
Monitoring tools
Existing DoD network operations workflows

This provides centralized visibility and streamlined compliance operations across geographically distributed environments.Measurable ResultsOrganizations deploying Squirrel Defender MR1 achieve:Up to 99% reduction in compliance laborFaster ATO and assessment readinessReduced operational risk in SD-WAN deploymentsContinuous insight into network security posture