Telos

Automates cyber risk and compliance work, improves risk visibility, and helps teams make informed decisions across frameworks and environments.

Travelers can apply or renew online or at authorized locations, making TSA PreCheck enrollment accessible and convenient.

Helps organizations and individuals obtain background checks to support safer environments, reduce risk and cost, and meet applicable legal requirements.

Captures, processes, and matches fingerprints on mobile devices, enabling touchless biometric identity workflows across a range of applications.

Helps airports and airlines vet aviation workers securely and efficiently with streamlined submissions, responsive support, and reduced channeling costs.

Strengthens enterprise security, identifies and addresses vulnerabilities, and evaluates policies and continuity plans to support secure, stable operations.

Identifies vulnerabilities and validates security posture to help secure infrastructure and stay mission ready.

Helps organizations assess their readiness for CMMC requirements.

Assesses security risks and supports compliance with NIST 800-53 requirements across complex systems and environments.

Assesses security against NIST SP 800-171 and provides findings to guide remediation.

Helps federal and intelligence organizations migrate, manage, and secure cloud environments while reducing the time and effort required to reach authorization.

Helps federal organizations address cloud compliance requirements and move toward Authority to Operate faster.

Operates and defends complex enterprise networks while supporting availability, information protection, assured delivery, and lower ownership costs.

Provides a Telos offering for unified communications and voice over IP.

Supports an all-wireless workplace while helping organizations reduce costs, improve user experience, and enhance security.

Provides a Telos offering for private cellular networks.

Connects remote personnel to logistics systems and extends network resources for operational information and emergency communications in hard-to-reach locations.

Provides a Telos offering for passive optical networks.

Enables organizations to distribute and manage mission-critical messages with assured messaging and directory services.

Provides training related to Telos AMHS organizational messaging.

Xacta

Xacta is a cyber governance, risk, and compliance platform that uses AI and rules-based automation to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk and compliance across complex environments and regulatory frameworks. It supports security authorization, control assessment, compliance documentation, continuous monitoring, and risk analysis, and connects with third-party tools and data. Xacta.ai, an AI-powered GRC capability within the platform, grounds responses in organizational project data, controls, environments, and frameworks to help users generate control content, assess risks, prepare tests, query project information, and extract details from artifacts.

Category: Governance, Risk and Compliance Software

• Manage Requirements Across Frameworks
  Bring regulatory requirements into one system, align controls across frameworks, and tailor content without rebuilding compliance processes for each mandate.
• Maintain Ongoing Compliance
  Monitor controls and system changes over time, receive alerts when action is needed, and revalidate technical tests.
• Get Contextual Risk Insights
  Use organizational and project context to query GRC information, review control status and authorization readiness, and extract details from project documentation.
• Generate And Check Assessment Content
  Create implementation and assessment statements and targeted test procedures aligned to the organization’s implementation and environment, with automatic accuracy checks for assessment statements.
• Support Authorization And Assessments
  Manage security authorization and control assessment activities, document risk analysis, and support the NIST Risk Management Framework process.
• Align Controls Across Regulations
  Map related controls across regulations and use a single validation to update similar controls, reducing repeated compliance work.
• Connect Vulnerabilities To Controls
  Relate vulnerabilities to applicable controls so teams can better understand risk and make informed decisions.
• Automate Compliance Workflows
  Automate routine tasks and configure workflows that incorporate approval processes as project requirements are completed.
• Connect Risk And Compliance Systems
  Connect third-party tools and data through Xacta Xchange to align risk and compliance information and add context to risk posture assessments.
• Improve Risk Posture Visibility
  Bring together security and compliance data from connected systems to help teams gain a clearer view of risk and organizational security posture.
• Reuse Tailored AI Prompts
  Adapt curated prompts to an organization’s authorization package and environment, then save and reuse them to support consistent responses.
• Carry Forward Compliance Data
  Use existing data and preserve control associations as regulations change, and propagate updated requirements to compatible projects without overwriting project information.
• Produce Compliance Documentation
  Publish compliance artifacts using a requirements knowledgebase and produce them in office document formats or digital formats such as OSCAL.

TSA PreCheck Enrollment and Renewal by Telos

Telos is an authorized TSA PreCheck enrollment provider offering online applications, appointment scheduling, and enrollment at more than 500 authorized locations nationwide. Travelers can renew online or in person and use an online tool to look up their Known Traveler Number. Telos also supports airports and universities offering local enrollment with TSA-approved equipment, training, marketing materials, and operational support. Listed prices are $85 for new enrollment, $69.95 for online renewal, and $58.75 for in-person renewal.

• Apply Online And Schedule Locally
  Start the application online and schedule an appointment at a Telos enrollment location to complete the process.
• Find A Nearby Enrollment Location
  Choose from more than 500 authorized locations nationwide and use Telos’s location search tool to find a nearby site.
• Renew Online Or In Person
  Renew online or at an enrollment location, including up to six months before membership expiration.
• Bring Enrollment To Your Community
  Airports and universities can offer enrollment locally with Telos’s equipment, training, marketing assets, and operational guidance.
• Look Up Your KTN
  Use the online lookup tool to retrieve your Known Traveler Number.
• Receive Your KTN After Enrollment
  The stated typical delivery time is three to five business days after the appointment, though some cases may take up to 60 days.
• Review Enrollment And Renewal Fees
  Review listed fees before applying or renewing: $85 for new enrollment, $69.95 for online renewal, or $58.75 for in-person renewal.

IDVetting

IDVetting by Telos provides biographic and fingerprint background check solutions for organizations and individuals, including FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement checks. These services help organizations secure business environments, reduce risk and cost, and comply with laws requiring checks for specific roles. IDVetting is an approved FBI channeler for Departmental Order submissions, enabling qualifying individuals to obtain a copy of their current Identity History Summary Check record.

• Obtain Fingerprint-Based Checks
  Organizations and individuals can use fingerprint background check services, including FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement checks.
• Request Your Identity History Record
  Qualifying individuals can use Departmental Order submissions to obtain a copy of their current Identity History Summary Check record.
• Meet Applicable Background Check Requirements
  Supports organizations in meeting legal requirements for background checks associated with specific industries and operational roles.
• Support Informed Vetting Decisions
  Biographic background checks help organizations and individuals obtain information for background check purposes.
• Reduce Organizational Risk And Cost
  Organizations can use IDVetting’s background check solutions to help secure their business environment while reducing risk and cost.

ONYX Touchless Mobile Fingerprinting

ONYX is a touchless mobile fingerprint biometric solution that captures and processes fingerprints on mobile devices. Its SDK supports native iOS and Android development and HTML5 development through the ONYX Cordova plugin. Organizations can use it in biometric systems for banking and financial services, healthcare, enterprise and consumer authentication, and physical access and security. Capabilities include automated image capture and processing, AI-based liveness detection, on-device matching, and integration with third-party matching algorithms and AFIS environments.

• Capture Fingerprints On Mobile Devices
  Capture fingerprints using a mobile device rather than purpose-built fixed-position fingerprint hardware.
• Produce High-Resolution Fingerprint Images
  Normalize captured images into high-contrast, high-resolution fingerprint imagery for biometric workflows.
• Detect Fingerprint Spoofing Attempts
  Use AI-based liveness detection to help defend against attempts to use fingerprint facsimiles, pictures, or molds.
• Match Fingerprints On Mobile Devices
  Perform 1:1 or 1:N fingerprint matching against up to 50,000 records directly on a mobile device.
• Integrate With AFIS And Matching Systems
  Support third-party server-side matching and comparisons with touch-based sensor enrollments using image inversion, flipping, and pyramiding functions.
• Build Across Mobile And Web Platforms
  Develop with native iOS and Android support or use the ONYX Cordova plugin for HTML5 multi-platform development.
• Separate Fingerprints Into Usable Images
  Retrieve individual fingertip images or create a composite fingerprint image for downstream processing.
• Retrieve Fingerprints In Multiple Formats
  Choose from raw, preprocessed, enhanced, or black-and-white fingerprint images for processing, storage, or transmission.
• Use Fingerprinting Across Identity Applications
  Apply touchless mobile fingerprint biometrics in systems for financial services, healthcare, authentication, and physical access and security.
• Compress Fingerprint Images On Device
  Compress fingerprint images using a NIST-standard Wavelet Scalar Quantization algorithm on iOS or Android.

Aviation Channeling Services

Telos Aviation Channeling Services is a TSA-approved service for airports and airlines to conduct aviation-worker background checks and threat assessments. It supports secure submission of worker biographic and biometric data, including Criminal History Record Checks, Rap Back subscriptions, and security threat assessment data, which can be submitted simultaneously. The service offers web fingerprint capture without local data storage, integration with access control, badging, and training systems, and customer support. It is designed to meet TSA security requirements and DHS regulations for handling personally identifiable information.

• Conduct Required Worker Vetting
  Supports airports and airlines in carrying out required aviation-worker background checks and threat assessments.
• Meet TSA And DHS Requirements
  Support secure aviation-worker vetting while meeting stated TSA security requirements and DHS requirements for handling personally identifiable information and biometrics.
• Submit Multiple Check Types Together
  Submit CHRCs, Rap Back subscriptions, and STA data, including I-9 documents, in the same process.
• Capture Fingerprints Without Local Storage
  Capture fingerprints through a web-based process without local data storage, helping streamline submission and reduce PII breach risk.
• Get Support Around The Clock
  Provides customer care every day of the year, at any time, to help aviation customers with the service.
• Connect Existing Aviation Systems
  Integrate with access control, badging, and training systems to support connected workflows and cross-system data integrity.
• Accelerate Enrollment And Processing
  Provide enrollment using flat or slap fingerprints and fast STA processing to help customers submit worker information more easily.
• Lower Channeling Costs
  Offers a competitively priced channeling alternative and allows customers to switch without a switching charge.
• Track Charges With Detailed Invoices
  Provides monthly invoicing and detailed transaction reports without hidden fees or upfront payments.
• Adapt To Changing Requirements
  Provides engineering intended to address changing TSA and aviation industry requirements.
• Manage Reporting And Scheduling
  Includes reporting and scheduling functionality for aviation channeling operations.
• Support Authorized Signatories
  Includes functionality for authorized signatories as part of its aviation channeling capabilities.

Security Engineering and Evaluation

Telos provides cybersecurity engineering and evaluation services for enterprise networks and systems. Its vendor-certified engineers design secure, stable, and functional networks that account for operational needs and applicable government, international, and industry requirements. Services include security architecture design and implementation, vulnerability identification and remediation, security policy and process reviews, cloud risk assessments and security-requirements mapping, and reviews of continuity of operations and disaster-recovery plans with assessment reports and remediation recommendations.

• Design Flexible, Secure Enterprise Networks
  Engineers consider network components, technologies, operating systems, and operational requirements to help organizations build secure, stable, adaptable networks.
• Assess And Remediate Security Quickly
  QuickSAR provides a focused security assessment and remediation offering for organizations seeking to identify and address security issues.
• Identify And Mitigate Vulnerabilities
  Understand weaknesses in networks and systems and address identified vulnerabilities through rectification and mitigation services.
• Evaluate And Improve Security Policies
  Assess whether policies and procedures fit organizational requirements and environments, review critical security processes, and create policy documents when needed.
• Review Continuity And Recovery Plans
  Assess whether relevant steps and scenarios have been considered and provide recommendations for remediation.
• Assess Cloud Risks And Map Requirements
  Evaluate cloud risks and map applicable security requirements to services and workloads for specific agency or industry needs.

Penetration Testing

Telos provides penetration testing as part of its cybersecurity services. Testing helps identify vulnerabilities and validate an organization’s security posture, supporting efforts to secure infrastructure and stay mission ready.

• Identify Security Vulnerabilities
  Find vulnerabilities in systems and infrastructure through testing to help organizations understand where security weaknesses may exist.
• Validate Your Security Posture
  Use penetration testing to validate security posture and support efforts to secure infrastructure and maintain mission readiness.

CMMC Readiness Assessment

Telos offers a service to help organizations assess their readiness for CMMC requirements.

• Assess CMMC Readiness
  Helps organizations understand their readiness for CMMC requirements.

NIST 800-53 Security Assessment

Telos offers NIST 800-53 security assessments as part of its cybersecurity, cloud, and compliance services. The company conducts risk assessments and assesses systems ranging from large enclaves to complex appliances, helping organizations manage risk and expedite compliance with established security standards.

• Assess NIST 800-53 Security Controls
  Receive a security assessment service specifically listed for NIST 800-53.
• Identify And Manage Security Risks
  Examine security risks as part of efforts to manage risk and address established security standards.
• Assess Diverse System Environments
  Assessment experience spans a wide range of system types, from large enclaves and enterprise systems to specialized appliances and embedded technologies.

NIST SP 800-171 Security Assessment

Telos provides a security assessment focused on NIST SP 800-171, a standard for protecting controlled unclassified information in nonfederal systems and organizations. Telos describes its broader cybersecurity assessment services as evaluating security policies and processes and delivering reports with remediation recommendations.

• Assess NIST SP 800-171 Controls
  Evaluate security against the NIST SP 800-171 standard for protecting controlled unclassified information in nonfederal systems and organizations.
• Guide Security Remediation
  Use assessment findings and remediation recommendations to identify follow-up actions for security processes and related plans.

Cloud Migration and Engineering

Telos provides cloud migration, managed services, and security for the Department of War, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and highly sensitive civilian federal agencies. Its cloud capabilities draw on work with AWS and Microsoft Azure in highly secure sovereign regions. Services include cloud risk assessments, security requirements mapping for cloud-based services, and custom services for agency or industry requirements.

• Migrate Cloud Environments
  Access cloud migration support backed by Telos’s experience with defense, intelligence, and sensitive civilian federal customers.
• Align Cloud Workloads With Requirements
  Assess cloud risks and map security requirements so cloud services and workloads can be evaluated against agency or industry requirements.
• Accelerate ATO Timelines
  Cloud capabilities are designed to speed time to ATO, reducing time and effort for many burdensome tasks by up to 90 percent.
• Apply Sovereign Cloud Expertise
  Draw on Telos’s experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure in highly secure sovereign regions for cloud security and compliance needs.
• Manage Cloud Services
  Use Telos managed services to support cloud environments for federal and intelligence customers.

Cloud Compliance Automation

Telos provides cloud security and compliance solutions developed for the federal government, with experience in AWS and Microsoft Azure sovereign regions. The offering helps speed time to Authority to Operate and supports cloud requirements involving FedRAMP High, DoD Cloud Computing SRG Levels 2, 4, 5, and 6, and NIST security controls and frameworks. Related Xacta capabilities include ATO documentation, AWS control inheritance, and OSCAL data exchange.

• Speed Cloud ATO Progress
  Supports a faster path to Authority to Operate for organizations working with cloud environments.
• Address Federal Cloud Requirements
  Helps organizations address federal cloud security and compliance requirements across the listed standards and frameworks.
• Automate ATO Documentation
  Xacta generates ATO documentation packages and supports AWS control inheritance to streamline cloud compliance documentation.
• Exchange Compliance Data
  Supports OSCAL data exchange to facilitate the use of machine-readable compliance information.

Telos Secure Networks

Telos Secure Networks provides services for operating, administering, and defending complex enterprise networks, including defensive cyber operations. The services support managed network operations and defense, helping organizations maintain network availability, protect information, assure information delivery, and reduce total cost of ownership. This consolidated offering incorporates the overlapping descriptions of Telos Secure Solutions, Network Management and Defense, and Cybersecurity operations services.

• Defend Enterprise Networks
  Network defense and defensive cyber operations support customers in protecting complex enterprise networks.
• Maintain Network Availability
  The services support system and network availability as part of managed network operations and defense.
• Protect Information
  The services support information protection across the networks they manage and defend.
• Assure Information Delivery
  The services support reliable information delivery across complex enterprise networks.
• Manage Complex Network Operations
  Managed operational and administrative support helps customers operate and administer complex enterprise networks.
• Reduce Network Ownership Costs
  Managed network services help reduce the total cost of ownership for enterprise network operations.

Unified Communications and VoIP

A Telos offering for unified communications and voice over IP.

Campus Wi-Fi

Telos Campus Wi-Fi helps organizations move toward an all-wireless workplace. The solution is described as helping reduce costs, improve the user experience, and enhance security.

• Move Toward An All-Wireless Workplace
  Support a transition toward an all-wireless workplace with a campus Wi-Fi solution.
• Enhance Wireless Network Security
  Help enhance security as organizations transition toward an all-wireless workplace.
• Reduce Campus Network Costs
  Help reduce costs while moving campus operations toward an all-wireless workplace.
• Improve The User Experience
  Support an improved user experience through a campus Wi-Fi solution for an all-wireless workplace.

Private Cellular

A Telos offering for private cellular networks.

Deployable Communications

Telos provides secure deployable wireless capabilities for military operations. Its work includes a deployable mesh wireless system connecting personnel in remote locations with logistics systems, and Telos DAWN deployable access nodes that extend network resources to hard-to-reach work locations. These capabilities support access to online maintenance manuals, logistics orders, and emergency communications.

• Connect Remote Personnel
  Connect personnel in remote locations with logistics systems through a secure deployable mesh wireless system.
• Extend Network Resources
  Extend network resources to hard-to-reach points of work using DAWN deployable access nodes.
• Support Emergency Communications
  Extend network resources to support emergency communications at hard-to-reach points of work.
• Access Online Maintenance Manuals
  Provide access to online maintenance manuals at hard-to-reach points of work through extended network resources.
• Access Logistics Orders
  Provide access to logistics orders at hard-to-reach points of work through extended network resources.

Passive optical networks

A Telos offering for passive optical networks.

Telos Automated Message Handling System (AMHS)

Telos Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) is a web-based distribution and management solution for organizational messaging. It provides assured messaging and directory services and supports mission-critical, urgent, and sensitive communications. AMHS is the U.S. Department of War system of record for organizational messages and is used by military field operatives and more than 50 organizations worldwide, including military services, defense agencies, Combatant Commands, the Intelligence Community, and the diplomatic corps.

• Support Urgent And Sensitive Communications
  Support critical battlefield communications for military field operatives and other urgent and sensitive communication requirements.
• Maintain The Organizational Messaging Record
  Use the system of record for organizational messages in the U.S. Department of War.
• Distribute And Manage Organizational Messages
  Use a web-based solution to distribute and manage organizational messages for mission-critical communications.
• Provide Assured Messaging
  Support assured messaging for military services, defense agencies, Combatant Commands, and the Intelligence Community.
• Support Organizations Worldwide
  Serve more than 50 organizations around the world, including military, defense, intelligence, and diplomatic organizations.
• Access Organizational Directory Services
  Provide directory services to military services, defense agencies, Combatant Commands, and the Intelligence Community.

AMHS Training

Training for Telos AMHS organizational messaging.