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March 31, 2008
Enterprise Security Practice from AMERICAN SYSTEMS
By Shamila Janakiraman TMCnet Contributing Editor
AMERICAN SYSTEMS announced that it has introduced Enterprise Security Practice which is a converged security practice. This makes use of the company’s expertise in physical, logical and identity credentialing to serve federal and commercial customers said AMERICAN SYSTEMS in a press release.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is a government and commercial IT solutions provider besides being an employee-owned company.
“The Enterprise Security Practice draws from AMERICAN SYSTEMS’ collective security capabilities to better respond to customers’ converged security needs,” said William Hoover, president and CEO of AMERICAN SYSTEMS.
The company has developed capabilities and solutions suitable for federal security managers which are net-centric keeping in mind U.S. National Defense Strategy. Federal agencies rely an evolving “network of networks” to enable personnel to access mission critical information from world wide locations as fast as possible.
“We created the practice to ensure that managers responsible for physical and information security have the tools they need to go beyond mere security policy and audit compliance toward a more holistic and centralized security management system,” said Hoover.
As for the commercial use the Enterprise Security Practice will enable security managers to use tools suited for more centralized security management than simple policy and audit compliance.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS offers solutions which makes the all important security management simple for customers by leveraging the availability of security data in servers, applications and databases from a central point. This allows for the security management from any security environment in real time.
The new practice is expected to offer deployment capabilities like Security program development which includes needs assessment, policy and governance, control design and initiative planning. The logical controls include controls assessment and design, user provisioning/de-provisioning, Single Sign-on (SSO), Entitlements/Roles management and multi-factor authentication.
The Physical controls, includes access control, implementation, operation and maintenance while the Identity credentialing, includes token selection, federated identity management planning, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment.
The company added that the Compliance and monitoring feature includes information assurance, threat management, security monitoring and audit besdies Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP).
Shamila Janakiraman is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
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AMERICAN SYSTEMS is a government and commercial IT solutions provider besides being an employee-owned company.
“The Enterprise Security Practice draws from AMERICAN SYSTEMS’ collective security capabilities to better respond to customers’ converged security needs,” said William Hoover, president and CEO of AMERICAN SYSTEMS.
The company has developed capabilities and solutions suitable for federal security managers which are net-centric keeping in mind U.S. National Defense Strategy. Federal agencies rely an evolving “network of networks” to enable personnel to access mission critical information from world wide locations as fast as possible.
“We created the practice to ensure that managers responsible for physical and information security have the tools they need to go beyond mere security policy and audit compliance toward a more holistic and centralized security management system,” said Hoover.
As for the commercial use the Enterprise Security Practice will enable security managers to use tools suited for more centralized security management than simple policy and audit compliance.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS offers solutions which makes the all important security management simple for customers by leveraging the availability of security data in servers, applications and databases from a central point. This allows for the security management from any security environment in real time.
The new practice is expected to offer deployment capabilities like Security program development which includes needs assessment, policy and governance, control design and initiative planning. The logical controls include controls assessment and design, user provisioning/de-provisioning, Single Sign-on (SSO), Entitlements/Roles management and multi-factor authentication.
The Physical controls, includes access control, implementation, operation and maintenance while the Identity credentialing, includes token selection, federated identity management planning, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment.
The company added that the Compliance and monitoring feature includes information assurance, threat management, security monitoring and audit besdies Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP).
Shamila Janakiraman is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
Don’t forget to check out TMCnet’s White Paper Library, which provides a selection of in-depth information on relevant topics affecting the IP
Communications industry. The library offers white papers, case studies and other documents which are free to registered users. Today’s featured white paper is Best Practices for Deploying a Virtual Call Center: Tips, Techniques and Best Practices, brought to you by LiveOps (News - Alert).
