The GSN 2015 Digital Yearbook
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Agiliance Inc.<br />
<strong>2015</strong> Winner<br />
<strong>GSN</strong> <strong>2015</strong> DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS<br />
IT Security Products and Solutions<br />
Awards Category:<br />
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Best Compliance/Vulnerability Assessment Solution<br />
Name of Nominated Product, Service,<br />
or Program:<br />
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RiskVision 7.5<br />
Reason this entry deserves to win:<br />
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<strong>The</strong> biggest inhibitor of effective security and vulnerability<br />
management lies in the fact that the number of<br />
threats to organizations has grown exponentially over<br />
the past few years. This is largely due to the increasing<br />
number of IT assets under management, which are<br />
creating a big data challenge. To ensure proper coverage,<br />
government organizations in many cases are relying<br />
on multiple tools to produce the necessary vulnerability<br />
assessment data. This only adds to the volume, velocity,<br />
and complexity of data feeds that must be analyzed,<br />
normalized, and prioritized. Relying on human labor<br />
to comb through mountains of data logs is one of the<br />
main reasons that critical vulnerabilities are not being<br />
addressed in a timely fashion. According to the Verizon<br />
Data Breach Investigations Report, 92% of breaches<br />
were discovered by a third party and not through internal<br />
resources. As a result, government organizations are<br />
seeking technical solutions to automate data aggregation,<br />
normalization, and business impact correlation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ultimate objective is to shorten the window attackers<br />
have to exploit a software flaw, thereby reducing the<br />
overall risk of cyber-attacks and insider threats. Agiliance<br />
is assisting civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies in<br />
achieving continuous monitoring and enabling them to<br />
report on their organizations risk and security posture<br />
in near real time. <strong>The</strong> company’s RiskVision software<br />
gathers data feeds from otherwise silo-based security<br />
and IT tools such as SIEMs, configuration management<br />
databases, vulnerability scanners, threat data feeds and<br />
advisory services, database security management, etc.<br />
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