Foundstone Receives Medal of Achievement From Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee.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)--April 6, 2004 Foundstone Inc., experts in strategic security, today announced it has received the Medal of Achievement from the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee. "The Computerworld Honors Medal of Achievement is presented annually to those who have made outstanding progress for society through the visionary use of information technology," said Patrick J. McGovern, chairman of the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee and founder of International Data Group. Foundstone's ERS ERS, n.pr See extended rotated side-bent. software suite helps 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. The suite provides 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, 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. , and a tightly integrated remediation module which provides security managers unequaled, step-by-step control over the entire vulnerability management process. "To be nominated nom·i·nate tr.v. nom·i·nat·ed, nom·i·nat·ing, nom·i·nates 1. To propose by name as a candidate, especially for election. 2. To designate or appoint to an office, responsibility, or honor. and honored by the Chairmen's Committee further validates the vital contribution the Foundstone team has made to the future of network security and security risk management," said George Kurtz, chief executive officer for Foundstone. Foundstone's case study entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Enterprise Risk Solutions: Enabling customers to optimize optimize - optimisation security investments," officially became part of the Computerworld Honors Collection, which was formally presented to the Global Archives on April 4. It's one of a collection of case studies from 54 countries. Archived in libraries, museums, academic and research institutions around the world, the 2004 Collection will serve as primary source material for scholars and as a resource for individuals who hope to use information technology to create solutions to address their own challenges. Case studies from the 2004 Computerworld Honors Collection are available at http://www.cwheroes.org, the official internet site of the Computerworld Honors Foundation, where the entire Collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide. In addition, the Collection is distributed annually to the Honors Foundation's Archival Partners around the world. These partners include some of the world's finest World's Finest may refer to:
About Computerworld Honors Each year, the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee nominates organizations that are using information technology to improve society for inclusion in the Computerworld Honors Online Archive and the Collections of the Global Archives. The Global Archives represents the 100 plus institutions from more than thirty countries that include the Computerworld Honors Collection in their archives and libraries. Founded in 1988/89, the Computerworld Honors Foundation searches for and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways across ten categories: Business and Related Services; Education and Academia; Environment, Energy and Agriculture; Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; Government and Non-Profit Organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. ; Manufacturing; Media, Arts and Entertainment; Medicine; Science; and Transportation. 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 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 , 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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