Credit Union Information Security Professionals Association (CUISPA) Members to Receive a New Benefit of Membership; Partnership with Xacta Will Provide CUISPA Members with Access to Security Vulnerability Alerts - Free of Charge.

ASHBURN, Va. -- The Credit Union Information Security Professionals Association (CUISPA) now has a powerful new service for member credit unions. Through a partnership with Xacta Corporation, all of the association's members can opt into a free service to receive email alerts about security vulnerabilities that may impact their business.

Xacta will provide members with access to the Xacta Vulnerability Awareness System. Xacta, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telos, is the market leader in solutions that protect and support the security of enterprise IT resources. The company provides solutions for security compliance assessments, continuous risk assessments, sustained compliance management and security process enforcement. In short, they help organizations identify their weaknesses, mitigate vulnerabilities and comply with industry-specific security regulations.

The process for member credit unions will be straightforward. CUISPA will host a server that includes the Xacta Vulnerability Awareness System. The software allows participating members to register IT asset information on the server, and in turn, the Xacta system will alert them when their systems are susceptible to the SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities. It will also alert members through daily emails when their systems are potentially susceptible to newly-emerging vulnerabilities.

"We are very pleased with Xacta's initiative in offering this service to our members," said Kelly Dowell, executive director for CUISPA. "Xacta has worked with credit unions for many years and they understand the value of cooperation. Contributions like this from our affiliate members are instrumental in helping CUISPA realize its mission. Xacta's Vulnerability Awareness System will be a great value for many of our members. It will give them more visibility into their networks and allow them to respond to vulnerabilities in a more timely manner."

Existing and newly-joining members will have access to this service, free for one year. The registration process is simple, and the benefits begin immediately upon registration.

"By providing CUISPA members with access to the Xacta Vulnerability Awareness System, we're letting them have a small taste of the functionality built into Xacta IA Manager(TM)," said Richard Tracy, chief security officer for Telos Corporation. "Many organizations pay for similar intelligence feeds, but CUISPA members won't have to worry about that. They'll receive significant benefit from the service, and we hope it opens a dialog with them to discuss the other 95% of our offering. In addition to threat alerts, we help organizations catalog their IT assets, determine vulnerabilities, mitigate the vulnerabilities and help them comply with their regulatory requirements."

About Xacta

Xacta Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telos corporation, specializing in security solutions, has since 1989 ensured that the government's most security-conscious organizations comply with demanding federal and DoD information security mandates. Xacta's offerings include enterprise IT security management solutions, enterprise security consulting services, secure wireless networking, enterprise messaging, and secure credentialing solutions. Its solutions are represented to the federal government on Telos' GSA schedule. For more information, visit www.telos.com.

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