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Dept. Of State Deploys netForensics Security Info Mgmt Platform

netForensics Inc announced that the U.S. State Department has selected and implemented netForensics nFX Security Information Management (SIM) platform. The netForensics solution will play an integral and central role in the State Department's Global Situational Awareness Fusion Environment (G-SAFE) program. Following a lengthy review of various SIM products, the State Department selected netForensics nFX based upon scalability, performance and stability.

The State Department's G-SAFE program is designed to correlate real-time security event data from a multitude of sources from around the world, and present threat and vulnerability information in real time to analysts, law enforcement and Department management stakeholders. netForensics nFX will monitor and manage the data generated from approximately 1,500 security devices globally across the State Department's enterprise.

"netForensics provides the State Department with a global view into current cyber threats and a clearer understanding of the vulnerabilities we are facing," stated Mary Sue Holland, director of the Office of Computer Security, Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Department of State. "We will leverage this platform to ensure that we are continuously monitoring the security posture of our information technology resources, while measuring the effectiveness of our compliance with security policy and Federal regulations."

netForensics nFX provides customers with support for a SANS-based, predefined, security process, ensuring that Security Information Management goes beyond gathering information to enable issue resolution. It enables customers to gather high volumes of security information and intelligently interpret the meaning and importance of the data in order to take action. netForensics' unique methodology to perform security posture analysis enables security analysts to not only monitor and respond to their company's overall security threat score in real time but also, through multi-dimensional correlation of threats, vulnerabilities and predetermined asset values, to pinpoint immediately the target of the most serious attacks. netForensics' real-time, intuitive platform makes threats easy to identify and supplies all the integrated tools needed to stop and prevent them.

"This announcement once again illustrates that netForensics is the only vendor capable of delivering an enterprise-class solution that is flexible and scalable enough to meet Federal agency requirements," said Dale Klein, executive vice president of field operations at netForensics. "The State Department, like other Federal government agencies that netForensics is working with, reviewed and tested multiple SIM solutions, and in the end, recognized that netForensics nFX can help them meet both immediate and future requirements. SIM is not about one specific feature or function, but it is about being able to provide an end-to-end enterprise solution that is flexible and scalable to keep up with an organization's ever-changing challenges and needs."