USAID Uses netForensics SIM Solution to Collect and Correlate Security
Events From Different Vendors Technologies to Help Measure
Agency's Overall Risk and Security Posture
EDISON, N.J., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- (RSA Security Conference) --
netForensics, Inc., the pioneer and recognized market leader in Security
Information Management (SIM), today announced that the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) is the recipient of SC Magazine's Best
Security Implementation of the Year award. The SC Magazine Awards highlight
and showcase the best products, services and professionals in the information
security industry. SC Magazine had over 1,300 nominations for its 2006 Global
Awards show.
The nomination highlighted USAID's use of the nFX Open Security Platform
(nFX OSP), to collect and correlate security events from different vendors
technologies and help measure the organizations overall risk and security
posture. In a 2005 testimony (April 7) before the House Committee on
Government Reform on the status of Federal Agencies implementation of FISMA,
John Streufert, Acting CIO of USAID noted that SIM played a critical role in
its achieving the only A+ on the annual Federal Computer Security Report Card.
In the April 7 testimony, Streufert stated, "Even though we have reduced
our network-based vulnerabilities, we understand that security is a moving
target. We cannot mitigate all the risks any more than we can stamp out all
the possible vulnerabilities. Network threats exist. To combat this reality,
we have deployed a global network of security devices that transmit security
event information to a central collection, correlation, and reporting system
called a Security Information Management system (SIM)."
"This SIM collects suspicious security events and anomalies from hundreds
of security devices and firewalls deployed throughout the enterprise. By
collecting all our security events in the SIM database, we are able to
correlate events across all disparate security device types within the
enterprise, a powerful and critical tool when managing incident response on a
global network. With daily reviews and active monitoring, we can identify and
quickly respond to new information technology security threats and virus
attacks. The technology also supports our incident reporting to US-CERT at the
Department of Homeland Security, which provides important information to the
rest of the federal community."
"We applaud USAID's effort and determination for ensuring their worldwide
organization is protected and fully meets the government's FISMA
requirements," said Dennis Cline, President of netForensics. "The scalability
of nFX OSP enables netForensics to help address the decision support and
process automation demands of today's enterprises such as USAID which has over
70 offices worldwide. Our solution solves core SIM problems such as threat
identification, event correlation, and incident response, while providing a
foundation for broader enterprise security and compliance solutions."
About netForensics
netForensics is the leading authority in Security Information Management
(SIM) with nearly 400 clients -- including Global 1000 enterprises and
government organizations operating some of the largest networks in the world.
netForensics is the only SIM vendor with an integrated family of enterprise-
class products and services that are based on the proven, repeatable nFX(TM)
information security methodology. This combination empowers security
organizations to combat threats more efficiently, while connecting the
security organization with network operations, compliance, and risk
management. With award-winning technology, netForensics improves security
operations performance by extracting real-time intelligence from point
security products and applications into a single data repository, flagging the
most-critical issues and launching integrated incident resolution and
remediation processes. netForensics is headquartered in Edison, NJ with sales
offices worldwide. For more information, please call 732.393.6000 or visit
http://www.netforensics.com.
CONTACT: Evan Weisel of Welz & Weisel Communications, +1-703-323-6006, or
evan@w2comm.com, for netForensics, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Evan Weisel of Welz & Weisel Communications,
+1-703-323-6006, or evan@w2comm.com, for netForensics, Inc.
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