Leading GRC Provider Ends 2009 with Strong Customer Acquisitions, Impressive Partnerships, and Significant Technical Accomplishments
SAN JOSE, Calif., – Agiliance Inc., the leading independent provider of integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced it has achieved record financial performance with year-over-year revenue increasing more than 100% in 2009. Driving company growth in 2009 were significant customer and partner relationships with industry leading organizations such as Bell Canada, Department of Health and Human Services, Kaiser Permanente, McAfee and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, increasing the company’s presence in several key verticals including healthcare, financial services and the government.
Highlights of 2009 growth included:
• Triple digit year-over-year increase of customer base despite poor macroeconomic conditions.
• Strong growth in government and healthcare verticals, highlighted by new customers such as Navy SPAWAR, Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Highmark.
• Increase in financial services customer base more than 150% year-over-year.
• Existing customers such as Cisco and Kaiser Permanente continued to invest in Agiliance solutions, accounting for 45% of total revenue.
Additional success milestones in 2009 included Agiliance receiving a rating of “Strong Positive” by Gartner as part of the research firm’s 2009 MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (IT-GRCM) - furthering Agiliance’s market reach and affirming its status as a leading provider of GRC technology. Agiliance also received recognition from Secure Computing (SC) Magazine, garnering accolades for its RiskVisionTM GRC platform, which was included in the publication’s impressive list of “2009 Innovators.”
Agiliance’s success and product innovations have also attracted top tier solution and technology partners. In 2009, Agiliance announced strategic partnerships with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Bell Canada, and McAfee. These strategic relationships have resulted in market-leading joint solutions such as Bell Privacy Manager™.
Agiliance’s continuing business success is supported by its track record of relentless innovation in GRC technologies. The company launched two new industry leading applications in 2009, including RiskVision Privacy Manager™ and RiskVision Threat and Vulnerability Manager™. RiskVision Privacy Manager is the industry’s first fully integrated solution to help organizations manage their privacy programs, offering privacy impact assessment, policy and education, and incident management in a single out-of-the-box solution. RiskVision Threat and Vulnerability Manager is the next generation automation solution for managing organization wide threat and vulnerability programs. RiskVision Threat and Vulnerability Manager offers unprecedented levels of integration and automation across vulnerability scanner, advisory feed, configuration management, asset management, and patch management technologies. These two new solutions are fully integrated components of the RiskVisionTM Platform, along with Compliance Manager™, Enterprise Risk Manager™, Policy Manager™, Incident Manager™, and Vendor Risk Manager™.
“Recent customer wins at global companies coupled with our record financial growth in 2009, validate the strength of our value proposition even in a tough economic climate,” said Pravin Kothari, Chairman of the Board of Agiliance, Inc. “We expect to continue the momentum generated by the success of our key partnerships, company expansion, and industry recognition of our best-of-breed GRC solutions, and look forward to another highly successful and profitable year.”
About Agiliance
Agiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is the leading independent provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Agiliance to Host Privacy Management Webinar: How to Plan and Execute a Data Protection Program
San Jose, Calif. – Agiliance Inc., the leader in integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced it will host a live webinar titled “Privacy Management: How to Plan and Execute a Data Protection Program” on October 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT featuring distinguished panelist, Jill Frisby, senior consultant, Crowe Horwath, LLP and hosted by Ed King, vice president of marketing, Agiliance.
The United States lags behind Europe and Canada in privacy protection, however, this is changing with the inception of HITECH which extends HIPAA's reach to many more entities. In addition, stringent laws are being enforced in states like California and Massachusetts. Now more than ever organizations must show due care around protection of individual privacy.
REGISTER HERE: AGILIANCE WEBINAR
In this session learn how to build a comprehensive data protection program by understanding:
1. Privacy and security principles: What is privacy and how is it different from security, how do they interact, and why privacy principles matter to businesses.
2. Drivers for privacy and security: Data use and governance and the regulatory environment.
3. Executing a data protection program: What is data protection and how to execute a privacy impact assessment.
4. The top five areas of improvement for privacy programs and privacy management technologies.
ABOUT AGILIANCE
Agiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
The United States lags behind Europe and Canada in privacy protection, however, this is changing with the inception of HITECH which extends HIPAA's reach to many more entities. In addition, stringent laws are being enforced in states like California and Massachusetts. Now more than ever organizations must show due care around protection of individual privacy.
REGISTER HERE: AGILIANCE WEBINAR
In this session learn how to build a comprehensive data protection program by understanding:
1. Privacy and security principles: What is privacy and how is it different from security, how do they interact, and why privacy principles matter to businesses.
2. Drivers for privacy and security: Data use and governance and the regulatory environment.
3. Executing a data protection program: What is data protection and how to execute a privacy impact assessment.
4. The top five areas of improvement for privacy programs and privacy management technologies.
ABOUT AGILIANCE
Agiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Network World: Best practices and automation for data privacy
Much has been written about data security, and how to protect data in a computer system to ensure its confidentiality, integrity and availability. Have you given much thought to data privacy? It's not quite the same thing as data security. Privacy ensures the protection of an individual's right to control the collection, dissemination and use of his personal data. To learn more, visit http://www.agiliance.com/events/.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Agiliance Announces a Unified Privacy Management Solution
New Privacy Manager Allows Organizations to Manage Privacy Compliance on an Integrated and Comprehensive, Singular Platform
San Jose, California – Agiliance Inc., the leader in integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced the Agiliance Privacy Manager to the current suite of GRC applications. This application enables organizations to manage privacy compliance, reduce risk and demonstrate due diligence by proactively assessing privacy risks. The Privacy Manager is fully integrated on the Agiliance RiskVision platform and provides automation assistance for key privacy management tasks of data classification, privacy compliance assessments, privacy impact assessments (PIA), privacy policy awareness and attestation as well as privacy incident management and reporting.
Agiliance Privacy Manager provides critical automation technologies for organizations determined to meet multiple government privacy mandates and manage privacy related risks across a large number of heterogeneous systems and processes. Agiliance Privacy Manager enables enterprises to perform compliance or impact assessments using an interactive web based application, distribute privacy policies and measure privacy risk, compliance, awareness and manage privacy incidents with closed loop mitigation.
“Compliance with privacy mandates can be daunting for any organization, but protecting sensitive information is vital for healthcare providers,” said Scott Crawford, Managing Research Director with Enterprise Management Associates. “Tools such as Agiliance help streamline the management of privacy obligations on every level, from state and local rules to federal mandates such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enabling organizations to go beyond simply trying to keep up with compliance requirements and focus on the deployment of effective privacy controls where they're most needed.”
“A successful risk management program must manage all major risk exposures which can include financial risks, third-party risks, IT risk and certainly privacy risks,” said Michael Rasmussen, President of Corporate Integrity. “Privacy risk is one risk area that has been lagging in terms of both customer investment and vendor solution offerings. The recent increased interest level in privacy best practices and solutions is a long overdue and welcomed change for companies that are serious with managing their risks.”
Features of the Agiliance Privacy Manager include:
• Privacy Reports and Dashboards – to manage privacy risk through a real-time dashboard and automated report generator to support reporting on privacy compliance and impact assessments
• Common Control Framework – to reduce compliance costs and improve efficiency by enabling mapping of privacy controls across multiple laws and regulations
• Privacy Compliance Assessment – to support assessment and reporting against specific privacy laws and regulations
• Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) – to support detailed identification, mitigation, and reporting of privacy risks
• Privacy Policy Awareness – to distribute privacy policies and measure policy awareness
• Privacy Incident Management – to report, prioritize, track and mitigate privacy incidents
The Agiliance Privacy Manager is an application based on the RiskVision Platform, an integrated, purpose-built GRC platform that offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC. Organizations can start with a single application and configure or deploy additional applications as needed. RiskVision is comprised of seven key GRC applications including: Privacy Manager, Policy Manager, Compliance Manager, Enterprise Risk Manager, Vendor Risk Manager, Threat and Vulnerability Manager and Incident Manager.
About Agiliance Agiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
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San Jose, California – Agiliance Inc., the leader in integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced the Agiliance Privacy Manager to the current suite of GRC applications. This application enables organizations to manage privacy compliance, reduce risk and demonstrate due diligence by proactively assessing privacy risks. The Privacy Manager is fully integrated on the Agiliance RiskVision platform and provides automation assistance for key privacy management tasks of data classification, privacy compliance assessments, privacy impact assessments (PIA), privacy policy awareness and attestation as well as privacy incident management and reporting.
Agiliance Privacy Manager provides critical automation technologies for organizations determined to meet multiple government privacy mandates and manage privacy related risks across a large number of heterogeneous systems and processes. Agiliance Privacy Manager enables enterprises to perform compliance or impact assessments using an interactive web based application, distribute privacy policies and measure privacy risk, compliance, awareness and manage privacy incidents with closed loop mitigation.
“Compliance with privacy mandates can be daunting for any organization, but protecting sensitive information is vital for healthcare providers,” said Scott Crawford, Managing Research Director with Enterprise Management Associates. “Tools such as Agiliance help streamline the management of privacy obligations on every level, from state and local rules to federal mandates such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enabling organizations to go beyond simply trying to keep up with compliance requirements and focus on the deployment of effective privacy controls where they're most needed.”
“A successful risk management program must manage all major risk exposures which can include financial risks, third-party risks, IT risk and certainly privacy risks,” said Michael Rasmussen, President of Corporate Integrity. “Privacy risk is one risk area that has been lagging in terms of both customer investment and vendor solution offerings. The recent increased interest level in privacy best practices and solutions is a long overdue and welcomed change for companies that are serious with managing their risks.”
Features of the Agiliance Privacy Manager include:
• Privacy Reports and Dashboards – to manage privacy risk through a real-time dashboard and automated report generator to support reporting on privacy compliance and impact assessments
• Common Control Framework – to reduce compliance costs and improve efficiency by enabling mapping of privacy controls across multiple laws and regulations
• Privacy Compliance Assessment – to support assessment and reporting against specific privacy laws and regulations
• Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) – to support detailed identification, mitigation, and reporting of privacy risks
• Privacy Policy Awareness – to distribute privacy policies and measure policy awareness
• Privacy Incident Management – to report, prioritize, track and mitigate privacy incidents
The Agiliance Privacy Manager is an application based on the RiskVision Platform, an integrated, purpose-built GRC platform that offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC. Organizations can start with a single application and configure or deploy additional applications as needed. RiskVision is comprised of seven key GRC applications including: Privacy Manager, Policy Manager, Compliance Manager, Enterprise Risk Manager, Vendor Risk Manager, Threat and Vulnerability Manager and Incident Manager.
About Agiliance Agiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
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Agiliance to Host C&A Automation Webinar: An Integrated Approach to IT and Cyber Security Operations
Thought-Leadership Event Features Distinguished Panelist SecureForce, LLC
San Jose, Calif. – Agiliance Inc., the leader in integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced it will host a live webinar titled “C&A Automation: An Integrated Approach to IT and Cyber Security Operations” on September 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT featuring distinguished panelists, Stefan Smith, CISSP-ISSEP and CTO, SecureForce, LLC, Mike Saintcross, Director, Federal Solutions, Agiliance and hosted by Ed King, Vice President of Marketing, Agiliance.
Mandated by FISMA and OMB A-130, Certification and Accreditation (C&A) is the formal process of assessing the technical, operational and management controls for a given system, determining the residual risk, and authorizing the system to operate.
REGISTER HERE: AGILIANCE WEBINAR
In this session learn how to shift from point in time assessments to continuous assessment by:
• Leveraging C&A automation to provide continuous data collection and artifact preparation.
• Tailoring C&A workflow for effective integration into organizational processes.
• Maximizing existing investments in security controls (people, processes and technology).
• Enhancing risk management capabilities through the fusion of real-time security operations data feeds.
ABOUT AGILIANCEAgiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
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San Jose, Calif. – Agiliance Inc., the leader in integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced it will host a live webinar titled “C&A Automation: An Integrated Approach to IT and Cyber Security Operations” on September 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT featuring distinguished panelists, Stefan Smith, CISSP-ISSEP and CTO, SecureForce, LLC, Mike Saintcross, Director, Federal Solutions, Agiliance and hosted by Ed King, Vice President of Marketing, Agiliance.
Mandated by FISMA and OMB A-130, Certification and Accreditation (C&A) is the formal process of assessing the technical, operational and management controls for a given system, determining the residual risk, and authorizing the system to operate.
REGISTER HERE: AGILIANCE WEBINAR
In this session learn how to shift from point in time assessments to continuous assessment by:
• Leveraging C&A automation to provide continuous data collection and artifact preparation.
• Tailoring C&A workflow for effective integration into organizational processes.
• Maximizing existing investments in security controls (people, processes and technology).
• Enhancing risk management capabilities through the fusion of real-time security operations data feeds.
ABOUT AGILIANCEAgiliance (www.agiliance.com), founded in 2005, is a leading provider of enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The Agiliance GRC solution enables organizations to manage their IT and operational risks more effectively, while reducing the cost of meeting compliance mandates. Agiliance RiskVisionTM is a fully integrated suite of GRC solutions, delivered on a purpose-built GRC technology platform. Global Fortune 5000 companies leverage Agiliance’s award-winning technologies to address increasingly stringent GRC requirements and complex security threats. The Agiliance RiskVision platform offers an agile, modular approach to deploying GRC so that customers can meet mounting requirements. RiskVision has received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in the latest Gartner MarketScope for IT-GRCM, as well as the highest rating of “Leader” in the latest Forrester Wave for IT Risk and Compliance Software. With strong backing from leading technology venture funds, Agiliance has established a premiere market position and has set a strong track record of production innovation in GRC.
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