Shavlik Technologies Secures NASA SEWP Contract

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shavlik Technologies, LLC, the market leader in delivering software solutions that rapidly accelerate and continuously improve security and compliance readiness, today announced that the company’s security products have been included in a multi-year contract under the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP IV) Program. This Government-Wide Acquisition Contract makes Shavlik’s full security solution suite available to Federal Government customers who need to fully comply with new FISMA reporting requirements from the US Federal Government.

The Shavlik Security Suite leverages the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), which uses specific standards to simplify and automate vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluations. Two components of the Shavlik Security Suite, NetChk Protect for vulnerability management, and NetChk Compliance for security configuration management, are already SCAP compliant to support government initiatives for standards-based security automation.

“Shavlik’s security solution suite is ideal for Federal Government users who are concerned about both security and compliance requirements,” said Todd Rogers, Director of Federal Sales, Shavlik Technologies. “This NASA SEWP IV Contract provides the ability to quickly and easily respond to the needs of our current customers such as The State Department, US Army, US Air Force, Department of Interior, Department of State, Department of Education, and Department of Justice, and extend our reach to new customers in the Federal Government space.”

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 mandates yearly audits of government agency IT controls. FISMA recently changed its reporting requirements to now include proof of compliance with specific system configurations as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and referred to as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, or FDCC. By March 31, agencies must submit a technical report to NIST and OMB demonstrating the status of their implementations.

The Shavlik Security Suite provides a simple and sustainable solution for agencies to generate and distribute approved system baseline configurations and security policies, and then prove compliance with those policies. Shavlik has a FDCC policy template for its customers that can be downloaded from the Shavlik web site and used to compare existing policies and configurations against the NIST standards.

About Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, LLC delivers enterprise IT organizations robust software solutions that rapidly accelerate and continuously improve security and compliance readiness by simplifying IT operations, and identifying and reliably closing system security gaps. Shavlik’s solutions provide Rapid Readiness so IT organizations realize continuous security and compliance readiness in a fraction of the time, cost and IT resources required by alternative approaches.

With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Shavlik enables enterprises to simplify complex IT security and compliance management, providing trustworthy solutions that free up critical IT resources to focus on innovations that drive business growth while lowering costs. Shavlik also licenses its technology to more than 20 leading security and technology companies such as BMC, Juniper, Sophos, Symantec and VMware. For more information, visit Shavlik Technologies at www.shavlik.com.

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