Penetration test

360 Advanced and Ballast Services Co-Host Tampa Bay Tech's Quarterly Meeting

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Monday, September 12, 2022
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TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --360 Advanced and Ballast Services Co-Host Tampa Bay Tech's Quarterly Meeting.

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  • TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --360 Advanced and Ballast Services Co-Host Tampa Bay Tech's Quarterly Meeting.
  • Tampa Bay Tech CEOs' August meeting, co-hosted by Dan Collins of 360 Advanced and Keith Archibald of Ballast Services, focused on the current market economy and how tech CEOs are responding.
  • "The Tampa Bay tech community is one of the hottest places to be, with capital, founders, companies, and talent flowing in from across the country.
  • For more information about Ballast Services, or to contact us, please visit https://www.ballastservices.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

New Agile Pentesting from Cobalt Sets Standard for Next Frontier in PtaaS

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2022   /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cobalt, the Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) company that is modernizing the traditional pentesting model, today announced the launch of Agile Pentesting, a new offering that provides more control and flexibility to better meet the needs of today's businesses through versatile, ad hoc pentesting.

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  • Agile Pentesting allows organizations to proactively identify and address vulnerabilities at a faster, more frequent rate to minimize risk.
  • Agile Pentesting allows organizations to focus on a specific area of an asset, such as a new feature or product release, specific vulnerability, or incremental testing.
  • "Agile Pentesting marks the next stage in the evolution of PtaaS," said Russ Cobb, Chief Marketing Officer of Cobalt.
  • With a globally-distributed team, Cobalt is transforming pentesting by providing streamlined processes, developer integrations and on-demand pentesters who have undergone rigorous vetting.

Emagine IT Partners with RegScale to Power and Automate FedRAMP Assessments

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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NORTH BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emagine, IT (EIT), a Type C FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO), and Regscale, announced their new partnership to streamline and automate FedRAMP assessments using RegScale's automated, API-centric approach to compliance.

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  • NORTH BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emagine, IT (EIT), a Type C FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO), and Regscale, announced their new partnership to streamline and automate FedRAMP assessments using RegScale's automated, API-centric approach to compliance.
  • Emagine IT (EIT) provides cybersecurity, management consulting, and enterprise IT services to commercial organizations and government agencies to securely modernize their IT assets.
  • EIT's 3PAO services provide multiple levels of security services to CSP's seeking FedRAMP, agency, and Department of Defense (DoD) compliance.
  • RegScale ensures your compliance artifacts are continuously kept up to date, holistically managing both manual and automated assessments against federal compliance requirements.

NetSPI Launches Partner Program to Broaden Delivery of Offensive Security Services

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSPI, the leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, today announced the launch of the NetSPI Partner Program which empowers its global channel and technology partners to deliver offensive security services during a time when it's needed most. 

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  • NetSPI Partner Program equips channel and technology partners with pentesting tools, services, and talent, bolstering security worldwide
    MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSPI , the leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, today announced the launch of the NetSPI Partner Program which empowers its global channel and technology partners to deliver offensive security services during a time when it's needed most.
  • Partners within the program can offer end users NetSPI's proven vulnerability management technologies and human-delivered offensive security services, allowing both the partner and NetSPI to expand product and service offerings, further develop customer relationships, and enter new markets.
  • The NetSPI Partner Program encompasses the following partnership types:
    Channel Partners: NetSPI provides its full suite of security services and products through a global channel network of referral and reseller partners.
  • "Being a member of the NetSPI Partner Program allows us to achieve our sales goals while providing mutual customers with industry leading services and expertise."

Federal Direct Completes Its SOC 2 + HITRUST Type 2 Assessment

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Federal Direct, a premier print and direct mail provider serving the insurance, pharma, finance, and retail industries, has completed a rigorous examination of its data security processes to achieve its SOC 2 + HITRUST Type 2 Assessment, in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

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  • Federal Direct has completed a rigorous examination of its data security processes to achieve its SOC 2 + HITRUST Type 2 Assessment with cybersecurity and compliance firm 360 Advanced performing the third-party examination.
  • The HITRUST Assessment includes a comprehensive evaluation of the organization's security posture and control environment against the Policy, Process, Implementation, Measured, and Managed maturity levels.
  • Federal Direct has secured its SOC 2 Assessment for six years because they understand the importance of data security.
  • Services provided include SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, SOC for Cybersecurity, SOC for Supply Chain, CSA STAR, HIPAA/HITECH, ISO 27001, CMMC, PCI-DSS, HITRUST CSF, Microsoft SSPA Attestation, Penetration Testing, GDPR, CPRA, and more.

NetSPI Releases Two Open-Source Tools for the Information Security Community

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSPI, the leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, today unveiled two new open-source tools for the information security community: PowerHuntShares and PowerHunt.

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  • MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSPI , the leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, today unveiled two new open-source tools for the information security community: PowerHuntShares and PowerHunt .
  • "I urge the security community to check out and contribute to these tools so we can better understand our SMB share attack surfaces and improve strategies for remediation, together."
  • NetSPI's global penetration testing team has developed several open-source tools, including popular penetration testing tools PowerUpSQL and MicroBurst .
  • NetSPI offers Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) through its Resolve penetration testing and vulnerability management platform.

SecurityScorecard Helps CISOs See, Resolve and Communicate Cyber Risks Clearly with Integration of Ratings Platform and Suite of Professional Services

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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SecurityScorecard , the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, today announced the integration of its Professional Services offering with its ratings platform to provide a single point of orchestration to manage cybersecurity risks.

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  • SecurityScorecard , the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, today announced the integration of its Professional Services offering with its ratings platform to provide a single point of orchestration to manage cybersecurity risks.
  • SecurityScorecard delivers strategic, proactive and acute-scenario services paired with its industry-leading ratings platform that together provide end-to-end cyber risk management from monitoring to remediation.
  • Our services and software platform provides CISOs with peace of mind that they have the broad visibility to take action quickly, hold their vendors accountable and communicate those actions promptly.
  • Tabletop Exercises help test teams cyber readiness against a real-world cyber incident by practicing incident response scenarios.

CrossCountry Announces Cyber Attack Simulation and Threat Assessment Offering

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CrossCountry Consulting, a leading business advisory firm, today announced the launch of its Cyber & Privacy practice's offensive cybersecurity capabilities into Icebreaker, a newly enhanced offering. Icebreaker will provide CrossCountry's clients threat assessment, cyber-attack simulation, and remediation services, closely complementing the practice's current cyber strategy and transformation, cloud security, and application security capabilities that balance cyber and privacy depth with executive and business-level acumen.

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  • Icebreaker will provide CrossCountry's clients threat assessment, cyber-attack simulation, and remediation services, closely complementing the practice's current cyber strategy and transformation, cloud security, and application security capabilities that balance cyber and privacy depth with executive and business-level acumen.
  • The carefully curated team of industry-leading security experts complements CrossCountry Consulting's robust Cyber & Privacy practice and adjacent Risk & Compliance team.
  • "We carefully built this team of cyber threat experts that align with our existing culture of excellence and customer care," added Cameron Over, Cyber & Privacy Leader at CrossCountry Consulting.
  • "We are incredibly proud of the Icebreaker leadership bench, a team of elite and seasoned cyber threat experts in the industry.

Whistic partners with Cobalt to enable vendors to share security documentation more efficiently

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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Today, Whistic, the proactive vendor security network for both buyers and sellers, announced a partnership with Cobalt , the leading Pentest as a Service provider.

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  • Today, Whistic, the proactive vendor security network for both buyers and sellers, announced a partnership with Cobalt , the leading Pentest as a Service provider.
  • Cobalt customers with a security-first mindset can start building trust with their prospects early in the buying cycle by sharing their security documentation using Whistic Profiles.
  • As part of the partnership, Cobalt customers can opt into creating a Whistic Profile, which in addition to consolidating security documentation in one place, also makes it easy to share this information proactively and securely with customers.
  • The Whistic Vendor Security Network accelerates the vendor assessment process by enabling businesses to access and evaluate a vendors Whistic Profile and create trusted connections that last well beyond the initial assessment.

SBD is Awarded the Federal Student Aid Security Operations Center (SOC) contract

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Friday, July 29, 2022
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VIENNA, Va., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutions By Design II, LLC (SBD), a leader in cyber strategy, defense and recovery capabilities announced that it has been awarded a subcontract to provide Security Operations Center (SOC) support to the Federal Student Aid (FSA).

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  • VIENNA, Va., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutions By Design II, LLC (SBD), a leader in cyber strategy, defense and recovery capabilities announced that it has been awarded a subcontract to provide Security Operations Center (SOC) support to the Federal Student Aid (FSA).
  • SBD will provide SOC Operations Center support, SOC Engineering Support, and Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing.
  • SBD will work collaboratively with Prime Contractor Zen Strategics and the Department of Education Federal Student Aid stakeholders tocommunicate threat information and other relevant security data and alerts while maintaining and optimizing the security posture of their assets, networks and data locations.
  • "Given the impact of student loans on so many Americans, we realize how important security is to FSA's mission" said Michael Ewell., Vice President at SBD.