2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards

Department of Defense, with the ability to tier system
evaluation and management throughout the
organization.
Ultimately, DISA wanted fast and accurate enterprisewide
network security assessment that could satisfy the
goal of increasing the accuracy of risk assessment and
standards compliance verification. They wanted realtime
risk assessment across DoD networks to provide essential
situational awareness and enable true, risk-based
management decisions consistent with existing and
emerging federal guidelines for continuous monitoring.
DISA’s selection of Tenable
followed an extensive evaluation
process culminating with
a 6-month, multi-site implementation.
As part of Tenable’s
solution, DISA implemented
Tenable SecurityCenter, which
provided continuous assetbased
security and compliance
monitoring, bringing together
the processes of asset discovery, vulnerability detection
and configuration auditing. The SecurityCenter console
works with Tenable’s Nessus vulnerability scanners, the
global standard in detecting and assessing network data,
to look for policy changes every time a scan is requested.
This provides the ability to assess an organization’s
vulnerability and compliance posture, as well as deliver
analysis and workflow tools that allow the user to easily
perform reporting, auditing and remediation tasks. Tenable
SecurityCenter streamlines vulnerability scanning,
administration and reporting. For organizations with
large and complex networks, SecurityCenter provides a
comprehensive view of enterprise security, compliance
and risk, combining the power of Nessus scanning with
an enterprise-class vulnerability and threat management
platform. SecurityCenter simplifies administration
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using a single console that manages distributed Nessus
scanners for enterprise-wide security and compliance
visibility. It also accelerates scans with a distributed and
load balanced scanning, and delivers advanced analytics
including extensive dashboard and built-in and customizable
reports that aggregate scan data to help you
identify and respond to security and compliance issues.
Link to Web Page of Nominated Organization:
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http://www.tenable.com/
Link to additional information on product,
service or program, with brief description:
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Continuous Monitoring:
http://www.tenable.com/solutions/continuousmonitoring
Whitepaper:
http://www.tenable.com/whitepapers/continuous-monitoring-for-the-new-it-landscape
Blog:
http://www.tenable.com/blog
Name and organization of nominating
contact for this entry, including name, title,
organization:
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Chris Petty, Communications Coordinator
Tenable Network Security
Nominating contact’s office telephone and cell
phone:
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(410) 872-0555 ext. 522
Nominating contact’s email address:
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cpetty@tenable.com