Continuous Monitoring + Policy Management Leads to Network Resilience and Successful Command Cyber Readiness Inspections

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Over the past few years, DISA has been moving network infrastructure into Joint Regional Security Stacks.

DISA’s website says, “A joint regional security stack is a suite of equipment that performs firewall functions, intrusion detection and prevention, enterprise management, virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), and provides a host of network security capabilities…security of the network is centralized into regional architectures instead of locally distributed …JRSS allows information traversing DoD networks to be continuously monitored to ensure response time as well as throughput and performance standards. JRSS includes failover, diversity, and elimination of critical failure points as a means to assure timely delivery of critical information.”

RedSeal is the official continuous monitoring solution for the JRSS. We are actively working with our clients to deploy this feature to help them achieve network resilience.

However, many clients don’t realize that combining continuous monitoring with policy management solves another actual problem: preparing for and passing Command Cyber Readiness Inspections (CCRIs).  Teams have to nearly shut down operations for weeks at a time to prepare for these important events. Failure can affect careers.

CCRIs take place on annual cycles and information networks get wildly out of compliance.  To keep networks operationally compliant, RedSeal monitors configurations daily and send alerts when actions have been taken that violate policy.  Plus, RedSeal is the only platform that allows its customers to verify STIG compliance on all of their Layer 2 & 3 devices as part of their continuous monitoring practice. This, in turn, allows for less prep time needed for CCRIs.

At a recent Centcom briefing by RedSeal, a DISA representative noticed that “it would make more sense if you import PPSMs [ports, protocols and services management] into RedSeal.” This would reduce the time to identify new, daily activity that created non-compliant configurations.  A number of RedSeal customers have successfully deployed the combination of PPSM policies with RedSeal’s continuous monitoring capability.  RedSeal automatically conducts scheduled analysis of the platform to check compliance with PPSMs and alerts on any failures, no matter how small.

Customers have found that automated continuous monitoring plus policy management equals network resilience.   CCRIs can now become a byproduct of daily network and security operations.  Successful real time policy management means more successful, less taxing CCRIs and higher network overall resilience.

RedSeal Honored as Silver Winner in the 12th Annual 2016 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® in Network Security and Management

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The security industry’s coveted Global Excellence Awards winners and finalists from all over the world were honored by Info Security Products Guide in San Francisco on February 29, 2016

Sunnyvale, CA – Mar. 11, 2016 RedSeal announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named the RedSeal security analytics platform a Silver winner of the 2016 Global Excellence Awards® in Network Security and Management. The security industry celebrated its 12th Annual 2016 Global Excellence Awards in San Francisco by honoring excellence in every facet of the industry, including products, people behind the successes and best companies.

More than 50 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated, and their average scores determined the 2016 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners. Winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on February 29, 2016 in San Francisco, attended by the finalists, judges and industry peers.

RedSeal’s security analytics platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network, including cloud and virtual networks. It calculates the RedSeal Digital Resilience Score, which measures how prepared an organization is to respond to an incident and quickly rebound. With RedSeal’s platform, customers can understand and monitor their networks; verify policy compliance; and accelerate their incident response.

“Info Security Products Guide’s recognition of RedSeal further validates our product as excellence-in-class and ahead of the curve in the critical and fast moving world of cybersecurity. Our platform works with existing security products to provide customers with visibility and actionable information not available elsewhere,” said Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal. “This industry honor is the greatest endorsement to the fact that RedSeal is continuously innovating when it comes to the best-of-the-best products in network security and management.”

About Info Security Products Guide
Info Security Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow’s technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and market research reports that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. To learn more, visit www.infosecurityproductsguide.com and stay secured.

About RedSeal
RedSeal puts power in decision makers’ hands with the essential cybersecurity analytics platform for building digitally resilient organizations. RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, modeled after a creditworthiness score, measures how prepared an organization is to respond to an incident and quickly rebound. The company’s platform adds value to existing network devices by working with them and building a network model. With this, customers can understand the state of their networks, measure resilience, verify compliance, and accelerate incident response. RedSeal’s customers are Global 2000 corporations and government agencies that depend on the most sophisticated security. Founded in 2004, RedSeal is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and serves customers globally through a direct sales and channel partner network.

RedSeal Honored as Silver Winner in the 12th Annual 2016 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® in Network Security and Management

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Info Security Products Guide | Mar 11, 2016

GEawards-Info-SecuritySunnyvale, CA, March 11th, 2016 – RedSeal announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named the RedSeal security analytics platform a Silver winner of the 2016 Global Excellence Awards® in Network Security and Management.

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Software security is no longer just an IT job

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USA Today | March 4, 2016

With the security-software industry packed into San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week for its biggest annual conference, a slew of interviews has made one thing clear: The white hats have come out of the wiring closet.

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RedSeal Named to Momentum Partners’ Annual Watch List at 2016 RSA Conference

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Company recognized for growth and innovation during 2015

Sunnyvale, CA, Mar. 2, 2016— RedSeal (redseal.net), the cybersecurity analytics company, today announced it was named as one of the ten companies added to the Momentum Partners’ annual Watch List for Q4 of 2015. Each quarter, Momentum Partners, a bespoke cybersecurity focused advisory firm, selects ten private companies within the cybersecurity space showing tremendous momentum in their sector. This is the first time that RedSeal has been honored on Momentum Partners’ list.

“We are delighted to announce another stellar cohort of innovative and breakout companies in cybersecurity,” said Eric McAlpine, Momentum’s Managing Partner. “There is a vast sea of vendors often solving the same or similar problems in this complicated industry and the signal- to-noise ratio can make it difficult to discern signal from noise. We are vigilant in our coverage of the cybersecurity ecosystem and encounter many vendors with tremendous momentum. As such, we do our very best to listen to our network to identify these truly innovative companies.”

Momentum Partners completed its selection of the forty companies to the firm’s annual Watch List from more than 1,500 cybersecurity companies that the firm tracks globally. The firm creates their quarterly Watch List after carefully weighing feedback from the field and considering a variety of growth and innovation factors. Input was carefully considered from Momentum’s vast network of corporate dealmakers, investors, and cybersecurity professionals in order to identify these forty companies displaying tremendous momentum.

“The security sector remains one of the fastest growing and dynamic industries within enterprise IT, with a large number of technology providers offering many partial solutions for this complex problem,” said Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal. “Momentum Partners’ recognition of RedSeal further validates the growing need for a systemic cybersecurity analytics solution that enables businesses to better defend their networks and be more resilient when the inevitable security breaches occur.”

About RedSeal
RedSeal is an essential step in building digitally resilient organizations people can trust. RedSeal’s security analytics platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, and target existing cybersecurity resources on the most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see their security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience to the inevitable attack. RedSeal’s customers are Global 2000 corporations and government agencies that depend on the most sophisticated security. Founded in 2004, RedSeal is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and serves customers globally.

RedSeal Honored as the Most Innovative Network Security Solution in the 4th Annual 2016 Cyber Defense Magazine Infosec Awards

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Cyber Defense Magazine | Feb 29, 2016

CDM Award shieldSunnyvale, CA, February 29th, 2016 – RedSeal (redseal.net), the cybersecurity analytics company, announced today that Cyber Defense Magazine, the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine and media partner of the RSA® Conference 2016, has named RedSeal’s cybersecurity analytics platform winner of the Most Innovative in the Network Security category.

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RedSeal Honored as the Most Innovative Network Security Solution in the 4th Annual 2016 Cyber Defense Magazine Infosec Awards

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Sunnyvale, CA, February 29th, 2016 – RedSeal (redseal.net), the cybersecurity analytics company, announced today that Cyber Defense Magazine, the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine and media partner of the RSA® Conference 2016, has named RedSeal’s cybersecurity analytics platform winner of the Most Innovative in the Network Security category.

After many months of review and judged by leading independent information security experts, Cyber Defense Magazine is pleased to have selected RedSeal as a winner for their cybersecurity analytics platform.

“We’re thrilled to recognize next-generation innovation in the information security marketplace and that’s why RedSeal has earned this award from Cyber Defense Magazine. Some of the best INFOSEC defenses come from these kinds of forward thinking players who think outside of the box,” said Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in- Chief, Cyber Defense Magazine.

RedSeal’s advanced analytics platform helps build digitally resilient organizations. With RedSeal, decision makers can understand the state of their networks, measure resilience, verify compliance, and accelerate response to vulnerabilities and incidents. RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, modeled after a creditworthiness score like FICO®, provides management with a metric for measuring resilience and benchmarking progress.

“CDM’s recognition of RedSeal further validates our company as an innovator in the network security space,” said Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of RedSeal. “I’m particularly proud of our Digital Resilience Score, since it gives management and corporate boards something that’s been missing — a key metric to measure and manage security. This industry honor is a great endorsement that RedSeal is ahead of the curve when it comes to helping build digitally resilient organizations.”

About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of IT Security information. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting edge knowledge, real world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free and limited print editions exclusively for the RSA Conferences and our paid subscribers. Learn more about us at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com

About Your Company
RedSeal is an essential step in building digitally resilient organizations people can trust. RedSeal’s security analytics platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, and target existing cybersecurity resources on the most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see their security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience to the inevitable attack. RedSeal’s customers are Global 2000 corporations and government agencies that depend on the most sophisticated security. Founded in 2004, RedSeal is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia.

Visit redseal.net or call 1-888.845.8169 for more information.

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President Obama’s $19 Billion Cyber-Defense Budget and Plan is a Bold and Necessary Step

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“The federal government is finally taking bold steps to fulfill what the Constitution says in its preamble – ‘to provide for the common defense,’ in this case, the common cyber defense.

The actions and budget announced today are an important recognition and investment in the defense of the critical information infrastructure of the United States, and provides an example for governments, businesses, and NGOs worldwide.

The plan recognizes that it is critical to implement platforms with analytics and capabilities to understand complex networks and assist in prioritizing what needs to be done first to improve resilience.

As the president writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, ‘we are still in the early days of this challenge.’ Networks will only grow more complex, creating opportunities for hackers and challenges for defenders.

The federal government’s new Chief Information Security Officer should be asking talented agency teams, ‘how are we measuring our cyber results and defenses? How are we thinking about resilience? And how are we determining the first step to take to make our digital infrastructure more resilient?’

Networks were not designed with cyberattacks in mind, so they are not resilient to them.  But it’s not too late. Building digital resilience into networks before attacks is the only way to get ahead of the ongoing, automated, and ever more sophisticated attacks.

The proposal by the President can be an excellent step in leading the world to a more cyber resilient future.”

Industry experts weigh in on Obama’s cybersecurity blueprint

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Third Certainty | February 17, 2016

Obama’s 2017 budget proposal calls for a $19 billion increase in cybersecurity funding across all government agencies—up more than 35 percent from the previous fiscal year.

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Senate IT official: Lawmakers need cyber education

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FedScoop | February 17, 2016

Even with the best technology and processes available, more needs to be done to educate U.S. senators and their staff on why they need to take cybersecurity seriously, according to the Senate’s IT security branch manager.

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