The First Real Time Forensics Capability Dedicated to
Cyber Situational Awareness:

Situational awareness (SA) refers to the vantage point from which an organization gathers and processes information. Most recently, government agencies with cyber security responsibilities are being tasked with developing new SA techniques that can be applied to cyber security. This will require the ability to monitor an organization's networks on a global level, and quickly gather and process information in order to insure an intelligent and well-informed response to an attack.

Cybercrime – whether perpetrated by insiders, domestic attackers or foreign agents – has become huge in scope and continues to grow unabated, affecting not only the economy and public safety, but also national security interests. Cost per incident can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and is expected to double by this year. Recent attacks affecting organizations from payment processor RBS WorldPay to Google, Adobe and dozens of other companies by Chinese hackers point to the critical need to provide automated, holistic Cyber SA capabilities that provide the context for making decisions about how to respond to attacks.

ACSI's Real Time Forensics and Federated Situational Awareness are new technologies that collect and secure forensics data in real time to preserve chain of custody and aid forensic investigation during or after an attack, and scale to provide accurate views of the extent of an attack across multiple domains within an agency or enterprise. This Federated Situational Awareness (FederatedSA™) provides the broadest context for making critical decisions in responding to an attack, and offers the only solution that utilizes actual forensics data rather than data based on an "educated guess."

The combination of these technologies provides the first scalable platform for Cyber Situational Awareness that supports multiple levels of awareness tailored for the specific agencies or departments involved, effectively safeguarding their digital assets.

As hard to see as a black panther at night, today's cyber criminals are feared because they can prey undetected on a computer or network. Our PinpointSA™ platform can flush out such predators, giving the advantage back to you.

A cyber security breach at a U.S. government agency can literally place the nation’s national security at risk, especially in classified national security systems. Protection is needed against both external and “insider threats” on Microsoft platforms within government agencies. The U.S. Government has very specific and strong interest in protection against “insider threats.”

A revolutionary platform that not only protects against cyber-intruders, but detects, monitors and captures them, providing state-of-the-art technology and enhanced cyber situational awareness, enabling the most intelligent response to a cyber attack.

May 4, 2012 - Stacy Curtin

Michael Chertoff: Cyberattacks Are the Biggest Risk Facing America

There have been a number of high-profile cyberattacks on multinationals in the last few years, including Lockheed Martin Northrop-Grumman, Sony, Google to Visa and Mastercard, among others.

Read the story and view the video HERE.

May 4, 2012 - Kim Zetter

Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?

On Apr. 7, 2011, five days before Microsoft patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that had been publicly disclosed three months earlier on a security mailing list, unknown attackers launched a spear-phishing attack against workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

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