Sponsors - Spring 2008 FS-ISAC Member Meeting and Conference

Company Name Sponsorship Description
Ernst & Young

Platinum Strategic Sponsor

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 130,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve potential.

Information technology is one of the key enablers for modern organizations to compete. It gives the opportunity to get closer, more focused and faster in responding to customers, and can redefine both the effectiveness and efficiency of operations. But as opportunity grows, so does risk. Effective information technology risk management helps you to improve the competitive advantage of your information technology operations, to make these operations more cost efficient and to manage down the risks related to running your systems. Our 6,000 information technology risk professionals draw on extensive personal experience to give you fresh perspectives and open, objective advice - wherever you are in the world. We work with you to develop an integrated, holistic approach to your information technology risk or to deal with a specific risk and security issue. And because we understand that, to achieve your potential, you need a tailored service as much as consistent methodologies, we work to give you the benefit of our broad sector experience, our deep subject matter knowledge and the latest insights from our work worldwide. It's how Ernst & Young makes a difference.

Learn more: http://www.ey.com

Voltage

Gold Strategic Sponsor

The Leader In Secure Business Communication and Persistent Information Encryption Voltage Security, Inc., an enterprise security company, is the global leader in information encryption. Voltage solutions, based on next generation cryptography, provide encryption that just works for protecting valuable, regulated and sensitive information persistently and based on policy. Voltage delivers power, simplicity and the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry through the use of award-winning Voltage Identity-Based Encryption™ (IBE).Voltage Security offerings include Voltage SecureMail™, the Voltage Data ProtectionSystem™ and the Voltage Security Network™ (VSN), a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for the extended business network. Voltage Security is the number one OEM provider of email encryption technology in the world with OEMs that include Microsoft, Proofpoint, Secure Computing, Send mail, Canon, Code Green Networks and NTT Communications. Voltage Security partners with leading global technology companies including: IBM, Microsoft, RIM, Symantec and others. Customers include nearly one million licensed and deployed users at Global 1000 companies in banking, retail, insurance, energy, healthcare and government, such as American Board of Family Medicine, Diebold, Integro Financial, NTT Communications, Safe Auto Insurance, Winterthur Life UK Ltd. and XL Global Services. Voltage provides solutions for secure communication and data at rest to leading financial services, healthcare, government and pharmaceutical companies.

Learn more: http://www.voltage.com

ClearPoint Metrics

Silver Strategic Sponsor

ClearPoint Metrics is changing the way organizations drive improvement in IT and security initiatives through the use of metrics and scorecards. We deliver advanced software solutions that enable organizations to constantly measure, actively monitor, and effectively communicate the business impact and effectiveness of information and security investments.

IT and security executives rely on our solutions to answer the critical questions on the state, quality and value of IT and security efforts and provide critical support to their IT and security governance efforts. Our solutions deliver the hard facts and data that organizations require to objectively assess the quality of their IT and security initiatives and assure compliance with industry best practice frameworks and regulatory requirements.

ClearPoint Metrics solutions enable organizations to:

  • Measure the effectiveness of controls
  • Identify and target areas for improvement
  • Communicate the results of risk management programs
  • Drive proper action in focused areas and extend accountability
  • Provide hard evidence of regulatory compliance
  • Establish a foundation for an enterprise-wide operational risk management

Learn more: http://www.clearpointmetrics.com

iDefense

Platinum Sponsor

iDefense Labs is the established global leader in providing comprehensive, actionable intelligence regarding cyber security threats and vulnerabilities to the largest financial services firms, government agencies, retailers and other large enterprises. Our multi-lingual network of hundreds of research contributors in over 30 countries offers early and unique insight into the cyber underground and previously unknown software vulnerabilities. This insight provides our customers with intelligence to aid them in making decisions in response to threats on a real-time basis.

Learn more: http://labs.idefense.com

Vontu

Gold Sponsor

Vontu, the leading provider of Data Loss Prevention solutions for financial services companies, is now a part of Symantec Corporation. Vontu's products strengthen Symantec's robust portfolio of endpoint and network security, as well as storage and compliance solutions. This new offering provides the only solution on the market today that allows financial services organizations the ability to prevent wrongful disclosure of confidential data and automatically enforce data loss prevention policies wherever data is stored or used. Symantec's acquisition of Vontu is a vital component of Symantec's Security 2.0 vision, which broadens the focus of security from simply securing systems and devices to incorporate protecting the information itself.

Learn more: http://go.symantec.com/vontu

Application Security, Inc

Silver Sponsor

Application Security, Inc. is the leading global provider of database security solutions for the enterprise. Application Security, Inc.’s products – the industry’s only complete database security solution – proactively secure databases in the most demanding environments around the world. Application Security, Inc. delivers up-to-date database protection that minimizes risk and allows organizations to confidently connect with customers, partners, and suppliers. The company was named to Inc. Magazine’s 2007 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies (Inc. 500).

Learn more: http://www.appsecinc.com

Archer Technologies

Silver Sponsor

Archer Technologies is a leading provider of automated enterprise risk and compliance management solutions. With more than four million licensed users, Archer enables highly regulated organizations and government agencies to reduce enterprise risks, manage and demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls. Archer is the only vendor that delivers highly flexible out-of-the-box solutions built on the Archer SmartSuite Framework that can be easily tailored to meet an organization’s unique risk and compliance requirements for successful IT governance.

Learn more: http://www.archer-tech.com

Aspect Security

Silver Sponsor

Aspect focuses exclusively on application security services. Aspect delivers third-party security analysis, code review, and application testing to verify the strengths and weaknesses of our clients’ web applications, web services, and other software applications. In addition, Aspect appraises organizations' ability to develop, operate, audit, and maintain secure applications and develops tailored programs to increase these organization’s application security capability.

Aspect has verified hundreds of millions of lines of code for mission critical applications written in languages such as Java, JSP, C, C++, C#, ASP, VB, VB.NET, ABAP, PHP, Dynamo, Cold Fusion, and Perl in environments including Java, J2EE, .NET, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Struts. Through our hands-on courses, we have trained thousands of developers and managers to build and test secure applications.

Aspect’s core team has been providing application security services since 1994, well before application security was a mainstream issue.

Aspect’s staff is a unique blend of developers, software architects, security engineers, and process improvement designers.

Learn more: http://www.aspectsecurity.com

Avior Computing

Silver Sponsor

Avior Computing developed a SaaS based software offering to conduct enterprise risk assessments in support of an organization’s Governance, Risk and Compliance initiatives to improve governance, increase compliance and identify risk.

Avior BenchMark automates the process of assessing third party risk, enterprise regulatory compliance, and information privacy. It replaces costly and cumbersome manual assessments and spreadsheets with a streamlined and automated process. BenchMark enables better risk decision-making, and significantly reduces compliance costs. In addition to being a BITS Software Partner we are working with Moody’s in their Service Provider Rating Initiative.

Learn more: http://www.aviorcomputing.com

Brabeion

Silver Sponsor

Brabeion, the leading software provider in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC), helps organizations demonstrate governance, dramatically reduce risk and improve compliance while lowering costs by mapping audit requirements across people, process and technology. Brabeion’s Polaris Suite is the first IT GRC solution to trace the full lifecycle of risk and compliance impacts from business and legislative requirements through to policy, implementation procedures and controls with automated audits and assessments. It is powered by comprehensive information risk and audit content developed and maintained by our team of domain experts, in collaboration with strategic partners including PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, IT Governance Institute and others. Brabeion Polaris puts you in control of your governance, risk and compliance profile at every level and stage of your business process.

Learn more: http://www.brabeion.com

Chosen Security, Inc.

Silver Sponsor

ChosenSecurity is the leading provider of On-Demand PKI (public key infrastructure) security services in the world, enabling a wide range of PKI-enabled security services for enterprise authentication, secure e-mail and digital signatures. The Company delivers breakthrough economics and implementation speed to the Enterprise; up to 70% less than in-house implementations, 50% less than traditional managed services, and can be implemented in just a few weeks.

Unlike traditional PKI implementations, ChosenSecurity is the world’s first PKI that can be deployed across multiple clients in a web-based Security as a Service model, enabling any sized enterprise to achieve PKI security in a few weeks with no capital costs, hardware, software or network changes. Headquartered in Needham, MA, ChosenSecurity is a true leader of certification service providers at the forefront of identity management.

Learn more: www.chosensecurity.com

Cigital

Silver Sponsor

Since 1992, Cigital has enabled some of the most well-known organizations in financial services, communications, insurance, hospitality, e-commerce and government to reduce their mission-critical software business risks. Cigital consultants specialize in software security to help organizations protect some of their most valuable assets: company and mission information, customer and individual data, shareholder value and brand. Each client’s unique requirements are served through a combination of proven methodologies, tools and best practices. Cigital assures the reliable delivery and deployment of software that organizations build, buy and integrate. Cigital is headquartered near Washington, D.C. with offices in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Delhi, India.

Learn more: http://www.cigital.com

Columbitech

Silver Sponsor

Columbitech, the world’s most deployed mobile VPN provider, enables fearless enterprise mobility and unleashes the power of wireless. Its software solution offers seamless security for any mobile device and application, with support for WLAN and public networks, including 3G, 4G and WiMAX. The Columbitech solution provides transparent access to enterprise applications from any network, without requiring any changes to hardware. With over 2 million deployed users, customers include three of the top ten U.S. retailers, several large European service providers and all military branches in the U.S. The embedded solution is OEM licensed by leading companies, including Motorola and Ericsson. The Columbitech solution holds a FIPS 140-2 certification. The company is privately held with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and New York, USA.

Learn more: http://www.columbitech.com

Cyveillance

Silver Sponsor

Internet Identity is focused on identifying and mitigating fraud and other abusive activities on the Internet. As a leading provider of anti-phishing services, Internet Identity delivers phishing site detection and shut down services that end phishing threats quickly and protect millions of consumers daily. The company develops intelligence and data about domains and servers involved in fraud, malware, spam and other undesirable activities that service providers and other user protection agents utilize when determining the reputation and trustworthiness of various Internet locations and services. Internet Identity’s clients include financial institutions of all sizes, ISPs, anti-spam and anti-virus providers, e-commerce companies, social networks and other businesses that rely on the Internet to succeed.

Learn more: http://www.cyveillance.com

Fortify Software

Silver Sponsor

Fortify Software protects companies from today’s greatest security risk: the software applications that run their businesses.
According to industry research firm The Gartner Group, 75 percent of cyber attacks in enterprises occur in the application layer. The perpetrators of these attacks -- hackers, criminals, and discontented insiders -- seek out exploitable vulnerabilities that can be used to cause havoc or gain access to intellectual property and key business processes.

Fortify 360 from Fortify Software helps enterprises ensure their software is invulnerable to these attacks. Fortify 360 accurately identifies the location of vulnerabilities in software; provides ongoing intelligence about emerging threats and vulnerabilities and helps enterprises manage the business of assuring application security. This in turn dramatically reduces the threat of catastrophic financial loss and damage to reputation as well as ensuring timely compliance with government and industry mandates.

Learn more: http://www.fortify.com

GuardianEdge

Silver Sponsor

GuardianEdge is the leader in endpoint data protection for the enterprise. More than two million users around the world depend on GuardianEdge solutions to safeguard sensitive and proprietary information, to ensure compliance and to enable secure enterprise mobility. The company’s customers include leading Fortune 500 organizations and numerous U.S. government agencies.

Learn more: http://www.guardianedge.com

Internet Identity

Silver Sponsor

Internet Identity is focused on identifying and mitigating fraud and other abusive activities on the Internet. As a leading provider of anti-phishing services, Internet Identity delivers phishing site detection and shut down services that end phishing threats quickly and protect millions of consumers daily. The company develops intelligence and data about domains and servers involved in fraud, malware, spam and other undesirable activities that service providers and other user protection agents utilize when determining the reputation and trustworthiness of various Internet locations and services. Internet Identity’s clients include financial institutions of all sizes, ISPs, anti-spam and anti-virus providers, e-commerce companies, social networks and other businesses that rely on the Internet to succeed.

Learn more: http://www.internetidentity.com

iSIGHT Partners

Silver Sponsor

iSIGHT Partners is a risk management firm committed to helping global organizations protect, identify and mitigate risk to highly targeted assets.

iSIGHT Partners helps global organizations deal with the structural dislocation of:

  • Physical and logical security teams

  • Organizational challenges around mitigating electronic crime

  • Reliability and dissemination of security threat intelligence


  • iSIGHT Partners is not backed by traditional venture capital firms. It is fully funded by a group of successful U.S. businessmen.

    One board member, John P. Watters, is the sole board member and votes all of the shares.

    All employees are shareholders of iSIGHT Partners

    Learn more: http://www.isightpartners.com

    MANDIANT

    Silver Sponsor

    MANDIANT is an information security company providing professional services, education and incident response management software to financial institutions, Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, domestic and foreign police departments and several of the United States’ leading law firms. MANDIANT security consultants have an average of 13 years experience in information security, gained through working in the private sector and for the military, intelligence agencies and law enforcement. We are widely recognized as the experts at incident response and computer forensics. Our consultants are equally proficient in performing application security reviews and implementing other proactive security measures. We provide training for clients on all facets of the information security life cycle, including web application security, incident response and malware analysis. MANDIANT is headquartered in Alexandria, VA and also operates an office in New York City.

    Learn more: http://www.mandiant.com

    McAfee, Inc.

    Silver Sponsor

    McAfee protects what the world values—from personal photos and music to the confidential records of global enterprises. Our products work together to make security affordable and manageable for everyone. The threats are tougher, and the perpetrators trickier. But as it has for nearly 20 years, McAfee’s superior protection is trusted by millions worldwide.

    Learn more: http://www.mcafee.com/

    NC4

    Silver Sponsor

    NC4 is a global leader in providing situational awareness, situational response and secure communications and collaboration solutions to business and government helping to improve awareness, prevention, protection, response and recovery.

    NC4 provides a higher level of preparedness with External Situational Awareness. NC4 monitors global incidents through its NC4 Incident Monitoring Centers round-the-clock. When significant incidents occur, NC4’s E Team emergency management system allows quick response and faster recovery with the proven ability to collaborate and manage efforts, across multiple organizations, from a single common view and coordination point. NC4’s Extranet Security Portals provide highly secure, web-accessible portals to manage critically sensitive information and collaboration.

    The FS-ISAC and NC4 are partnering to provide Program Management Services and Situational Readiness Operational Services to member firms. NC4 operates a global Situational Readiness Network which provides individual members with enhanced external situational awareness and allows for group members to securely communicate with each other.

    Learn more: http://www.nc4.us

    nCircle Network Security

    Silver Sponsor

    nCircle is the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. More than 4,000 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to identify, measure, manage and reduce security risk and automate compliance on their networks. nCircle has won numerous awards for growth, innovation and technology leadership and has been ranked among the top 100 best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. nCircle is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with regional offices throughout the USA and in London, Toronto and Tokyo.

    Learn more: http://www.ncircle.com/

    NetWitness

    Silver Sponsor

    NetWitness Corporation provides patented next generation network monitoring products that enable organizations to achieve Total Network Knowledge™. Users of NetWitness NextGen can concurrently solve a wide variety of network and security problems, including, insider threat management, data leakage protection, malware activity detection, network performance management, and compliance verification. This infrastructure provides definitive answers to tough security problems and threats through automated network understanding of application layer data and related content. Originally, developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies and Fortune 1000 organizations. To set up a 30-day NetWitness evaluation in your environment, please email sales@netwitness.com.

    Learn more: http://www.netwitness.com

    Ounce Labs

    Silver Sponsor

    Ounce Labs’ solutions enable organizations to identify, prioritize and eliminate business risk to the enterprise caused by software security vulnerabilities. With Ounce Labs, organizations strengthen application security, protect confidential information and verify compliance with both internal policies and industry mandates such as PCI, FISMA, HIPAA and others.

    Ounce Labs’ software analyzes application source code to provide the most complete and accurate analysis of application vulnerabilities and their relative priorities, enabling business users and IT professionals to optimize their resources on resolving the most critical issues.

    Unique in its ability to scale across an organization's entire portfolio of applications, Ounce is used enterprise-wide by many of the world's most security-conscious organizations, including IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, GMAC, MFS, the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense,, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Unisys and VeriSign.

    Led by senior executives with deep enterprise software and security expertise, Ounce Labs is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with regional offices throughout the U.S.

    Learn more: http://www.ouncelabs.com

    Raytheon Oakley Systems

    Silver Sponsor

    Raytheon Oakley Systems is part of Raytheon Company’s (NYSE: RTN) Intelligence and Information Systems business. Raytheon Oakley Systems is a leader in insider risk management, developed by experts in law enforcement, defense, and digital forensics, combining network and endpoint monitoring with targeted investigations to protect enterprises against the complete range of insider threats.

    Learn more: http://www.raytheon.com/oakley

    RSA

    Silver Sponsor

    RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading financial institutions succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle - wherever it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

    Learn more: http://www.rsa.com

    Secure Works

    Silver Sponsor

    With over 2,000 clients, SecureWorks has become the largest security services provider safeguarding more financial institutions than any other vendor. Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner’s MSSP Magic Quadrant 1H07, SecureWorks provides the most effective security services by leveraging our integrated security management platform, advanced security research, and 100 percent GIAC certified experts. By providing a full breadth of security services, SecureWorks offers fully-managed, co-managed, monitored or on-demand security solutions to meet the needs of Fortune 100 companies with large security teams as well as smaller companies with no security expertise. In addition, SecureWorks has helped many companies pass compliance audits by providing comprehensive and straight-forward board and examination reports. SecureWorks won SC Magazine's 2007 and 2006 MSSP of the Year award and the 2006 Best Intrusion Prevention award, and has been consistently named to the Inc. 500 and Deloitte & Touche lists of fastest-growing companies.

    Learn more: http://www.secureworks.com

    Shavlik Technologies

    Silver Sponsor

    Shavlik Technologies, LLC is the market leader in the simplification of complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security. Shavlik’s solutions support an organization’s need for Active Vulnerability Management – the automated and continual process for preventing, detecting and removing critical security threats from corporate networks while maintaining policy-driven security configurations.

    Learn more: http://www.shavliktechnologies.com

    Soteria

    Silver Sponsor

    Soteria Network Technologies (www.soteriatech.com) delivers software solutions for network analysts and operators that bridge the divide between network management and network security. Soteria improves data quality and navigation through fusion, visualization, and advanced analytics. This is accomplished with two complimentary product lines: Network Analysis Solutions and Simulation and Exercise Solutions.

    Soteria’s network analysis tools provide analysts with a complete near real-time picture of all ongoing events within the enterprise network and beyond. Soteria’s products make sense of the disparate data that is available to clients from their point security solutions, network management devices, and vulnerability data feeds. Soteria’s solutions fuse multiple sources of network protocol, network flow, and malicious data from the global Internet with internal data sources from an organization’s enterprise network. Customers are provided network cognizance, analysis, and visualization features through a web-based analysis interface and a client-server based operational dashboard.

    Soteria’s simulation and exercise product offers virtual cyber defense exercises geared to prepare clients and their cyber security first responders with the skills to proactively defend against cyber attacks.

    Learn more: http://www.soteriatech.com

    Sourcefire

    Silver Sponsor

    Sourcefire®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIRE), SNORT® creator, is a leader in Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions. The Sourcefire 3D™ System unifies IPS, NBA, NAC, and Vulnerability Assessment technologies under one management console. Customers are equipped with an efficient and effective layered security defense - protecting network assets before, during, and after an attack.

    Learn more: http://www.sourcefire.com

    TCG SecureZone

    Silver Sponsor

    TCG SecureZone is a leading software company dedicated to empowering businesses to operate successfully in the face of a complex compliance and governance environment. Developed for the banking industry, the SecureZone platform enables organizations to gain total control over their confidential information resources. TCG is headquartered in New York, New York.

    Learn more: http://www.tcgsecurezone.com

    Titus Labs

    Silver Sponsor

    New regulations require the financial industry to manage the distribution of certain types of information. For example, any information related to customer information, as well as information regarding corporate or investment banking must be protected. By utilizing Titus Labs Classification solutions, financial organizations can restrict permissions to view, forward or print this information to only those authorized to do so.

    Titus Labs software allows users to determine the sensitivity of email and documents based on visual markings, and sort and search for information based on metadata. In addition, classification can specify retention periods to ensure that sensitive emails are not inadvertently deleted.

    Learn more: http://www.titus-labs.com

    Tiversa, Inc.

    Silver Sponsor

    Tiversa monitors P2P file sharing networks to protect corporations, government agencies, and individuals from the disclosure and illicit use of sensitive, confidential, and classified documents on P2P file sharing networks. Requiring no software or hardware, Tiversa can locate exposed files, provide copies, and determine file sources so that this information can be removed from public P2P file sharing networks before malicious users, competitors, or the media find and use this information. Tiversa’s security clients include the world’s largest banking, investment banking, and insurance organizations as well as US law enforcement agencies. Tiversa’s proprietary algorithms and systems enable it to uniquely monitor 1.5 billion P2P searches and 20 million P2P users activity each day 24/365 to ensure your information is recovered before a malicious user does.

    Learn more: http://www.tiversa.com

    Venafi

    Silver Sponsor

    Venafi is a systems management vendor focused on managing encryption technologies. Venafi helps organizations deploy, manage and control certificates and keys across diverse environments throughout their complex infrastructures – from the desktop to the datacenter. Venafi products provide automated discovery of keys and certificates, policy-based application configuration, key and certificate lifecycle management and continuous monitoring and reporting. This allows organizations to significantly reduce system failure from un- or under-managed encryption, increase operational efficiency and improve compliance and data security. Venafi customers include some of the world’s most prestigious financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, government and online services companies.

    Learn more: http://www.venafi.com

    Verizon Business

    Silver Sponsor

    Global Internet reach combined with 15 years of information security expertise.

    Verizon Business can help you secure critical data—and your customer’s confidence—at the device, through the network, and around the world. We combine a global IP network with 15 years of detailed security expertise, including managed information security services, identity management, and forensics. As a result, our security solutions have earned the trust of thousands of customers worldwide, including 72% of the Fortune 100. Let us help take your business where it needs to go. Securely and confidently.

    Learn more: http://www.verizonbusiness.com

    CA

    Non-Exhibit Sponsor

    CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifies complex information technology (IT) management across the enterprise for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT. Customers can evolve their IT operations from being reactive and focused only on technology to being flexible, adaptable and focused on serving the business. Today, we serve the majority of the Fortune® 1000 companies, as well as government organizations, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.

    Learn more: http://www.ca.com

    Websense

    Non-Exhibit Sponsor

    Websense, the global leader in integrated Web, messaging, and data security, enables its customers' success by protecting essential information in the Web 2.0 world. Only Websense solutions provide complete visibility and control over who may use Web, email, or information resources; what information must be protected; how information can be exchanged; and where users and information can go on the Internet. Websense keeps employees productive on any network, anytime and anywhere, to help businesses realize the full potential of constant connectivity while minimizing the risks of data leaks due to human error and malicious attacks. Websense is Essential Information Protection™.

    Learn more: http://www.websense.com