FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

March 1, 2007

 

CONTACT:

Marc Enger

ThreatGuard, Inc.

(210) 490-4018

marc.enger@ThreatGuard.com

 

ThreatGuard RECEIVES OVAL REPOSITORY TOP CONTRIBUTOR  AWARD

 

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. – March 1, 2007 –  ThreatGuard, Inc. was recently presented with the OVAL Repository Top Contributor Award by the MITRE Corporation, the coordinator of the OVAL program .  This award is presented on a quartery basis to recognize the top contributors to the OVAL Definitions Repository.  ThreatGuard has won the award six straight quarters.


"ThreatGuard has consistently contributed high-quality content to the OVAL repository," said Matthew Wojcik, the MITRE Corporation's OVAL Moderator.  "Their hard work in developing new definitions and enhancing existing ones has been a driving force in the success and growth of the program."


The OVAL program has grown considerably over the past few years with an increasing number of commercial and public organizations benefiting.  "After careful analysis, we made a strategic decision to support OVAL several years ago," said Randal Taylor, ThreatGuard's Chief Technology Officer.  "OVAL has vastly improved our ability to develop and deploy security definitions to our customers.  We are pleased to repay the community and support the continued growth of the OVAL program through our contributions."


About OVAL

Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL™) is an international, information security, community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. OVAL includes a language used to encode system details, and an assortment of content repositories held throughout the community. The language standardizes the three main steps of the assessment process: representing configuration information of systems for testing; analyzing the system for the presence of the specified machine state; and reporting the results of this assessment. The repositories are collections of publicly available and open content that utilize the language.

   

About ThreatGuard, Inc.

 

ThreatGuard, Inc. develops standards-based security products that enable organizations to assess, audit, prioritize, remediate and manage their security and compliance posture. ThreatGuard products can operate in the most complex, heterogeneous environments as well as provide cost-effective security to very small operations. ThreatGuard is a privately-held company based in San Antonio, Texas with an office in Concord, New Hampshire. For more information about ThreatGuard, visit their Web site at http://www.threatguard.com.