AlphaPoint Technology, Inc., Included in the First National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) U.S. Department of Commerce Cybersecurity Guide for the Financial Services Sector: IT Asset Management

SARASOTA, Fla.--()--AlphaPoint Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: APPO) today announced that over the last several months, AlphaPoint Technology has been working closely with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on a cybersecurity project for financial institutions.

As the country’s national lab for cybersecurity, the NCCoE brings together people from industry, technology companies, government agencies, and academia to collaborate on applied cybersecurity to address broad challenges of national importance.

AlphaPoint is excited to share that the NCCoE has just released a draft guide of this cybersecurity project, titled IT Asset Management. The guide shows how financial institutions can increase their cybersecurity resilience by enhancing the visibility to resources across the enterprise using standards, best practices, and commercially available products. The draft is available for download on the NCCoE website, and they are seeking feedback on it.

One of the challenges financial institutions face is the wide array of information technology devices, systems, and applications deployed across a wide geographic area. Not being able to track the location and configuration of networked devices and software can leave an organization vulnerable to security threats. Further complicating this scenario is many organizations include subsidiaries, branches, third-party partners, contractors as well as temporary workers and guests.

The NCCoE worked with technology vendors like AlphaPoint Technology, to develop an example solution that provides an organization with the tools to centrally monitor and gain deeper insight into their entire IT asset portfolio with an automated platform. This example solution addresses questions such as “What operating systems are our laptops running?” and “Which devices are vulnerable to the latest threat?” enabling organizations to improve their cybersecurity resilience, gain efficiencies in asset management, and reduce costs associated with unused or underutilized physical and software assets.

“We are pleased with the collaborative effort seen throughout this draft guide. The guide can help organizations better manage their cybersecurity risk by providing a centralized view of asset information, including location, ownership, hardware, software and patch levels,” said Nate Lesser, deputy director of the NCCoE, which is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). “By using open source and commercially available technologies, the complex cybersecurity challenge of managing IT assets across an enterprise can be addressed today.”

This practice guide can help financial institutions reduce their risk by showing how commercially available technologies, like AssetCentral,* can be used to enhance the visibility of assets, identify vulnerable assets, and enable faster response to security threats. The NCCoE and we think the guide helps meet a critical cybersecurity need, but we’d like to hear from you. Download the guide and provide your thoughts on the NCCoE website.

AlphaPoint Technology, located in Sarasota, Florida, is a publicly held information technology company, that provides technology solutions for mid to large-size organizations and global enterprises. To learn more, visit www.alphapointtechnology.com.

* While the example solution uses certain products, including AlphaPoint Technology, the NCCoE does not endorse these products in particular. The guide presents the characteristics and capabilities of those products, which an organization’s security experts can use to identify similar standards-based products that will fit within with their organization’s existing tools and infrastructure.

Contacts

AlphaPoint Technology
Jay Letendre, 941-907-8822 ext. 10

Contacts

AlphaPoint Technology
Jay Letendre, 941-907-8822 ext. 10