ATLANTA and WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Gideon Technologies, the leading provider of information security solutions that automate and orchestrate enterprise IT security and risk management, announces earning the OVAL Repository Top Contributor Award for the 3rd quarter of 2009. This is the third quarter in a row that Gideon has been named a Top Contributor, along with Hewlett-Packard, for making significant contributions of new or modified content to the OVAL Repository. The Top Contributor Awards Program recognizes the invaluable efforts of those organizations that help make the OVAL Repository a gold standard of open information security content.
"OVAL reflects the insights and expertise of a broad range of security professionals worldwide," said Ken Halley, CEO and co-founder of Gideon Technologies. "Gideon Technologies is pleased to be honored for our significant contributions of definitions and content to this prestigious information security community that promotes interoperability and standardization among the entire spectrum of security tools and service. OVAL checks that we contribute monthly for Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," which helps secure our nation's critical infrastructure, and provides improved situational awareness of an enterprise's security posture."
OVAL is an international, information security, community standard sponsored by the National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The organization promotes open and publicly available security content, and standardizes the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. The OVAL Language enables interoperability between security products by providing a standard XML language with which to exchange information. For customers that leverage solutions built upon the OVAL language, OVAL provides a standards-based open method to collect asset information for security risk management, eliminates the risk of proprietary vendor assessment and data exchange formats, and enables automation efficiencies and assessment transparency otherwise not available.
Awards are granted each quarter to organizations exceeding a threshold of submissions of new definitions or modifications to existing Repository content. The Repository is a community effort, and acts as a place to store, discuss, and analyze OVAL Definitions, which characterize exactly which systems are susceptible to or have a given vulnerability, whether the configuration settings of a system meets security policies, and whether particular patches are appropriate for a system. Contributions to the Repository of new content and modifications are instrumental to its success. The awards serve as public recognition of an organization's support of the OVAL Repository and as an incentive for others to contribute.
About Gideon Technologies
Gideon Technologies develops network security and compliance solutions that give a clear view into IT assets and risk.
SecureFusion(TM) provides real-time visualization of every network-attached asset along with risk profile, enabling metrics and prioritization for remediation or mitigation. The solution provides private and public sector organizations with actionable data to compare against corporate and government standards or guidelines. SecureFusion has been validated by leading standards bodies, such as NIST, the National Institute of Standards & Technology, which establishes guidelines and checklists for the security configuration of operating systems and applications, such as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC). SecureFusion has been independently validated as compliant with Secure Content Automation Protocols (SCAP) since the program's inception, establishing SecureFusion(TM) as the leading standards-based platform for supporting enterprise IT Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) initiatives.
The SecureFusion suite is comprised of integrated modules for Asset Discovery, Configuration Management, Policy & Compliance Management, and Vulnerability Management that feed data into the SecureFusion Portal, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) interface to identify, manage, and measure information security (infosec) risks. Gideon Technologies also offers External Perimeter Monitoring Service for continuous security monitoring of an organization's Internet points-of-presence and Internet-accessible systems.
For more information, please find us on the Web at http://www.GideonTechnologies.com, by telephone at (678) 317-4300, or via email: fedsales@gideontechnologies.com.
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