Xacta, a Telos Company, Introduces Xacta IA Manager - the First Product to Address the Full Information Assurance Lifecycle.

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ASHBURN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2004

Leading Provider of Continuous Risk Management Solutions is First to Market with Integrated, Automated Vulnerability Management and Remediation Capability

Xacta, a Telos Company, and a leading supplier of government-validated secure enterprise solutions, today announced the availability of Xacta IA Manager(TM). This new offering builds upon the company's existing enterprise risk assessment, reporting, and compliance solutions to provide automated vulnerability management and remediation business processes as part of a comprehensive information security risk management solution.

Xacta IA Manager addresses the reality that many professionals tasked with risk and compliance assessment are also responsible for numerous other information assurance (IA) management functions, including vulnerability management and remediation, incident management and response, and requirements management. Xacta IA Manager initially focuses on the automation of vulnerability management and remediation processes, as well as providing up-to-date risk and compliance reporting.

Xacta IA Manager is a suite of security management modules that provide certification and accreditation (C&A) process automation, continuous risk assessment, and automated vulnerability management and remediation. These modules can be purchased as standalone security management functions or can be purchased together as an integrated security management platform.

"Xacta IA Manager is the first product to recognize security for what it is - a process. The need for efficiency, consistency, and repeatability as it relates to security management is paramount," said Richard Tracy, chief security officer, Xacta Corporation. "Business process automation and enforcement greatly accelerates the overall security management process, ultimately resulting in more secure systems. Many of the viruses launched over the past few years took advantage of known security vulnerabilities for which patches had been available for several months. Lack of resources prevents many organizations from being able to proactively address security vulnerabilities and apply appropriate security patches in a timely manner. Security automation helps remove the burden from overtaxed security employees."

"Xacta IA Manager is designed to help organizations proactively deal with security risks and vulnerabilities in an efficient and cost effective way," Tracy continued. "Industry analysts agree that simply addressing known vulnerabilities solves more than 80% of existing security problems. Xacta IA Manager makes this task much easier. Because our product collects extensive amounts of data regarding IT assets anyway, this vulnerability management and remediation functionality was a natural addition to our family of security management solutions. The true value of Xacta IA Manager is that all of our functionality works together as a single integrated security management system."

Addressing Complexity with a Centralized Approach

Xacta IA Manager helps businesses and government agencies cope with an ever-increasing number of vulnerabilities, security incidents, and security compliance requirements at a time when IT budgets are under pressure. Government organizations and businesses require security management solutions that help them do more for less.

"Speaking from experience, individuals tasked with information security responsibility have a heavy load to carry," said Mr. Levon Anderson, director for network security, for the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. "The value of Xacta IA Manager is that it automates and enforces many security management business functions and ties numerous information assurance functions into a single security platform. Xacta IA Manager helps our security professionals do their job faster and with better results."

About Xacta

Xacta, a Telos Company, develops, markets and sells government-validated secure enterprise solutions to Federal, state and local agencies of the U.S. government and commercial customers. Xacta's offerings include enterprise security management solutions, perimeter security management, operational security management, as well as high assurance credentialing, messaging, and wireless networking solutions.

For more information, visit www.xacta.com.

"Xacta IA Manager" is a trademark, and "Xacta" is a registered trademark, of Xacta Corporation. "Telos" is a registered trademark of Telos Corporation. All other product, service, and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.