HERNDON, Va., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure Elements, Inc., an enterprise
vulnerability management leader, and Foundstone Inc., experts in strategic
security, today announced at RSA Conference 2004, a technology and co-
marketing partnership that enables joint customers to fully automate
vulnerability management best practices in their enterprise networks.
    Integrating Foundstone Enterprise Risk Solutions(TM) (ERS(TM)) enables
users of Secure Elements' Class 5 AVR (Automated Vulnerability Management)
seamless vulnerability assessment, asset prioritization and threat
correlation, and automated remediation of vulnerabilities.  The combination of
both products capabilities presents a full solution for implementing industry
best practices for vulnerability management, real-time policy enforcement, and
asset control.
    "The Foundstone partnership is a major reason why we can present the only
security solution that automates, creates and implements remediation
strategies in an automated manner for emerging vulnerabilities that can only
be addressed via countermeasures as well as for those that may be addressed
via a security patch" said Ned Miller, president and CEO of Secure Elements.
"The Foundstone integration enables Secure Elements customers to achieve true
asset control and mitigate business risks associated with digital
vulnerabilities as they emerge."
    Secure Elements Class 5 AVR enables large organizations to develop
comprehensive remediation plans by focusing on asset control, policy
enforcement, incident response/remediation management and real-time situation
awareness.  Foundstone ERS's proprietary methodology provides its users with a
comprehensive map of the entire enterprise network, metrics to evaluate
returns on investment, regular in-depth analysis of a full spectrum of
vulnerabilities and a focus on high-priority vulnerabilities.
    "Security officers are barraged with terabytes of security data on a daily
basis and require the ability to prioritize threats and vulnerabilities in
real time in order to avoid catastrophic security breaches," said Stuart
McClure, president and CTO of Foundstone.  "Leveraging Foundstone's ERS
capabilities will allow Secure Elements customers to minimize vulnerability
windows and focus on the most mission critical threats."

    About Secure Elements
    Secure Elements, the enterprise vulnerability management leader, automates
security remediation strategies and tactics across the entire enterprise,
reducing business risk and IT management costs while improving systems
performance and maintaining business continuity.  Protecting mission critical
and network infrastructure assets from both known and unknown attacks without
limiting operational performance, the company rapidly identifies and
intelligently responds to complex and diverse security incidents.  Using real-
time threat intelligence data and analysis, Secure Elements provides
administrators with optimal security control across the enterprise.  Herndon,
Va.-based Secure Elements serves organizations in the federal government and
critical infrastructure markets, as well as Global 1000 corporations.

    About Foundstone
    Foundstone(R) Inc., experts in strategic security, offers a unique
combination of software, services, and education to help organizations
continuously and measurably protect the most important assets from the most
critical threats. Through a strategic approach to security, Foundstone
identifies and implements the right balance of technology, people, and process
to manage digital risk and leverage security investments more effectively. The
company has one of the most dominant security talent pools ever assembled, and
has authored twenty books, including the best-seller Hacking Exposed.
Foundstone customers include six of the top 11 Fortune companies and many U.S.
government agencies. The company is headquartered in Orange County, Calif.,
and has offices in New York, Washington, Seattle and Singapore. For more
information about Foundstone, visit http://www.foundstone.com, or call 877.91.FOUND
within the U.S., and 949.297.5600 outside the U.S.

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