Government

The Opportunity

Government organizations including local, state, or federal (civilian or DOD) are mandated by similar compliance rules as their corporate counterparts, and in many cases much more stringently. Many government organizations are also under similar financial pressures as commercial organizations. They must protect their assets from growing security threats, and deal with, on occasion, industry standards such as HIPAA, but also FISMA, state regulations, and others, depending on their circumstances. What is clear, supported by the recent flurry of public breaches, is that government agencies cannot continue to go it alone. In one case, a major DOD agency admitted that their administrative systems had been breached providing outside access to over 14,000 credit card records, while in another a state's human resource systems had been breached, releasing personal information on over 50,000 employees.

The BT Counterpane Solution

BT Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring provides government organizations and agencies with both the protection needed to mitigate the threat of breaches in violation of applicable regulations and guidelines. BT Counterpane currently provides services at the local, state, or federal (civilian and DOD) levels and meets or exceeds the tightest government requirements for its personnel, processes, and infrastructure.

As a company founded by experts with government security experience and the proven provider of Managed Security Services to the U.S. and other international government agencies, BT Counterpane remains focused in assisting and supporting government standards programs. Specifically for U.S. government agencies, BT Counterpane provides a significant focus on NIST standards and other cross organizational initiatives such as FISMA. BT Counterpane has made a significant investment in these programs and has become a recognized source for its cross government expertise, for example:

• Testimony before the Homeland Security Committee - BT Counterpane's leadership is constantly invited to testify before various government committees.
• Government Advocacy - BT Counterpane will continue to take feedback from government customers and agencies, and in kind return guidance and input into changes.
• Roundtables - BT Counterpane instituted a series of roundtables to enable senior officials to interact with the legislative branch, peers, and industry about best practices, pitfalls, and issues around government compliance, as well as the opportunity to exchange information with commercial peers .

BT Counterpane provides highly trained experts and sophisticated surveillance technology to stay ahead of today's software vulnerabilities, malicious insiders, and attackers from the outside. These Managed Security Services include:

Managed Security Monitoring - 24x7x365 protection of over 500 enterprise data networks worldwide by trained security analysts located in Security Operations Centers on call to alert customers to potential threats and real time attacks as they happen.

Vulnerability Scanning - internal and external scanning of enterprise networks to identify weakness in relation to known threats.

Device Management - full- or co-management of firewalls and intrusion detection / prevention systems using best practices applied by experts.

Security Consulting - assistance with network security architecture, policy development, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, forensics and attack response efforts.