Preventsys and SAIC Announce Co-Marketing Solutions Agreement to Promote Security Product Offerings
RapidGuard(TM) Solutions to Expedite Deployments of Enterprise Security Management System
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2004-- Preventsys Inc., a pioneer in enterprise security management solutions, today announced that it signed a co-marketing agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, to deliver automated network security auditing solutions. Preventsys' award-winning auditing solutions enable large, distributed enterprises to manage security proactively.
"Our customers have large, complex and global networks. They face significant regulatory challenges and are struggling to manage security," said Thad Wolfe, general manager of SAIC's Enterprise Security Solutions business unit. "We believe offering a bundled solution can provide value to our customers, helping them get ahead of threats and vulnerabilities in their network by managing security as proactively as they manage other important aspects of their business."
The RapidGuard(TM) solutions help customers understand the costs for license fees, maintenance and consulting efforts needed to operationalize the Preventsys system in an IT organization. As part of the agreement, sales teams from both Preventsys and SAIC will work together to help their mutual customers understand and maximize the benefits offered by comprehensive enterprise security management systems.
"Too many times customers do not get a complete picture of the costs of operating enterprise class software, particularly in the security space," said Tom Rowley, Chief Executive Officer, Preventsys. "Look at enterprise-class security product deployments and you will frequently see incomplete installations, poor utilization and unhappy customers. Preventsys and SAIC and the RapidGuard(TM) solution set can help customers break down barriers that often stall implementations, so that they may manage their enterprise's security effectively."
As part of the SAIC RapidGuard(TM) solutions, customers can purchase Preventsys software and maintenance, and SAIC will offer several packaged services, including:
-- RapidGuard(TM) Security Policy Gap Assessment. To allow customers a rapid understanding of the state of their security policies and how best to close these gaps, SAIC consultants will review existing policies against SAIC and industry standards and then identify the gap between the actual and the standard.
-- RapidGuard(TM) Security Policy Development. To rapidly improve customers' written security policies, SAIC consultants will modify existing or Preventsys bundled policies to develop a baseline for Preventsys to automatically measure against.
-- RapidGuard(TM) Architecture Design. To enhance system performance, SAIC consultants will review customers' network architectures in order to design the optimum Preventsys system and help ensure that project costs are understood and minimized.
-- RapidGuard(TM) Enterprise Integration. To rapidly deliver a complete Preventsys system, SAIC consultants will build, configure and deploy the Preventsys system including assessment, compliance and database servers.
-- RapidGuard(TM) Business Rule Development. To allow customers to, for the first time, directly measure compliance to their written enterprise security polices across an entire organization, SAIC consultants will map existing Preventsys business rules to security policy elements and configure relevant rules to meet customers' needs.
-- RapidGuard(TM) CheckUp. To provide clear, prioritized remediation strategies -- keeping customers ahead of worms, viruses and attackers, and improving their ability to meet regulatory & policy requirements -- SAIC consultants will meet regularly with RapidGuard(TM) customers, post-implementation, to brief them on changes in the security landscape, advise them on the most effective ways to use their resources, and review the Preventsys implementation to assist customers in proactively managing security.
About SAIC
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. With annual revenues of $6.7 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 44,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found at www.saic.com.
About Preventsys, Inc.
Preventsys is a pioneer in providing enterprise security management systems for large, distributed organizations. Its innovative and award winning technology dramatically improves network security and reduces costs by automating the traditionally manual processes of network auditing, policy development and compliance, remediation management and reporting. Preventsys is a privately held company founded in 2002 with more than 40 employees and venture funding from Enterprise Partners, Apax Partners and UV Partners. Preventsys is headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., and has regional offices in across the US. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.preventsys.com or call 760-268-7800.
Contacts
SHIFT Communications for Preventsys Inc.
Cathy Summers, 415-591-8415
csummers@shiftcomm.com
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