D&D Consulting Joins Foundstone's Strategic Partner Program.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MISSION VIEJO Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2004 Newest channel partner to join Foundsecure(TM) has extensive security expertise, strong East Coast customer base and is one of the fastest growing private companies Foundstone Inc., experts in strategic security, today announced that D&D Consulting Ltd., one of Inc. Magazine's 500 fastest growing private companies and an East Coast-based networking and security consultancy, has joined Foundstone's Foundsecure(TM) strategic partner program. "D&D Consulting has an extensive background in networking and security and truly understands the needs of organizations searching for effective risk and security solutions," said David Canavan, vice president of business development for Foundstone. "This expertise coupled with their strong customer base in the East Coast market makes D&D Consulting an ideal partner for Foundstone." By partnering with Foundstone, D&D Consulting can offer its customers Foundstone Enterprise Risk Solutions (ERS ERS, n.pr See extended rotated side-bent. (TM)) software suite, an award-winning vulnerability management software solution that takes a proactive approach to managing vulnerabilities, threats and remediation. D&D Consulting will also offer Foundstone's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and education offerings. "New threats to customer networks are being released on a daily basis and our customers are demanding a methodology to assess their vulnerability and manage their risk," said Christopher Labatt-Simon, chief executive officer of D&D Consulting. "Our Foundstone partnership now gives us the ability to offer our customers the market-leading vulnerability management solution while simultaneously reducing the strain on IT Resources, ensuring policy compliance and providing a quantifiable return on investment." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent study by ISSA/BSA, vulnerability management technology is the number one planned IT security purchase for 2004 -- outranking anti-virus, firewall, e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to and IDS technologies. Foundstone's ERS software suite is designed to help organizations comprehensively discover, inventory and prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. all assets on a global network. It then executes an exceptionally accurate, high-speed vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. of all network assets, including custom Web applications and wireless access points. Foundstone focuses on delivering the necessary information, including intuitive reports and metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. , to the in-house IT professionals who need it most. The tightly integrated remediation module with its workflow process provides security managers with unequaled, step-by-step control over the vulnerability prioritization and "fix" process. The Foundsecure partner program is best suited for companies with experience in the security market that are looking to expand and complement their security portfolio with vulnerability and risk management solutions. About D&D Consulting D&D Consulting, Ltd. is a technology leader in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Capital Region focusing on enterprise networking The networking infrastructure in a large enterprise with multiple computer systems and networks of different types is extraordinarily complex. Due to the myriad of interfaces that are required, much of what goes on has little to do with the real data processing of the payroll and orders. , security, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and web development. Founded in 1992, D&D provides services to midsize and large corporate and public sector organizations. D&D Consulting focuses on applying technology to solve complex business needs while also considering the total cost of ownership. D&D Consulting's engineers hold top level certifications in the network and security industries. In addition, D&D maintains high level relationships with multiple industry leading manufacturers enabling us to be objective in our recommendations. D&D Consulting is a member of 1NService, a select group of highly certified technology companies with national service capabilities enabling our customers to single source their complex nationwide deployments. D&D was recognized in 2003 by Inc magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . D&D was also recognized in 2002 and 2003 as the tenth and fifth fastest growing company in New York's Capital Region. More information can be found at www.dandd.com. About Foundstone Foundstone(R) Inc., experts in strategic security, offers a unique combination of software, services, and education to help organizations continuously and measurably protect the most important assets from the most critical threats. Through a strategic approach to security, Foundstone identifies and implements the right balance of technology, people, and process to manage digital risk and leverage security investments more effectively. The company has one of the most dominant security talent pools ever assembled, and has authored twenty books, including the best-seller Hacking See hack and hacker. Exposed. Foundstone customers include six of the top 11 Fortune companies and many U.S. government agencies. The company is headquartered in Orange County, Calif., and has offices in New York, Washington, Seattle and Singapore. For more information about Foundstone, visit www.foundstone.com, or call 877.91.FOUND within the U.S., and 949.297.5600 outside the U.S. Note to Editors: Foundstone is a trademark of Foundstone Inc. All other companies, brand names or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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