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A.J. Guenther                                                             

ConnellyWorks, Inc.                                                   

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GUIDENT LAUNCHES CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING SOLUTION FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 

Company Meets the Demands for Consolidation, Cost Reduction, and Security Risk Management with New Capability

 Herndon, VA - September 12, 2011 - Guident, a leading integrator of business intelligence, management consulting, and systems engineering services to the government and commercial marketplaces, today announced that it has launched a new continuous compliance and monitoring solution geared towards the federal marketplace.  The solution, known as the Virtualization Control and Optimization Portal (VCOP), is a risk management capability that provides agency-wide situational awareness, decision support, auditing, troubleshooting, and reporting of information technology (IT) security and compliance to executive, management, and operational resources.

"The benefits of moving to virtualized and cloud environments are well-documented, but security and compliance concerns continue to inhibit the government's widespread adoption of these platforms," said Dan Ackerman, Executive Vice President at Guident.  "The goal of VCOP is to support IT risk management, security and compliance processes specifically for data center consolidation, private cloud initiatives, and new Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) metrics.  VCOP dynamically collects and integrates data from across an agency ecosystem, providing a near real-time view of system inventory, operations, security, and compliance status."

A business intelligence-based solution, VCOP increases risk awareness; improves the accuracy and timeliness of FISMA reporting; and reduces annual costs associated with addressing security and mandatory compliance requirements.  Through web-based dashboards, users are given instant visibility to Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that can only be obtained through VCOP's collation, transformation, and aggregation of data from the security ecosystem.

VCOP benefits include:

• Reduces costs/level of effort associated with addressing compliance mandates
• Provides greater assurance of policy compliance
• Reduces costs/level of effort associated with analysis and troubleshooting across physical and virtual infrastructures
• Improves operational performance and service availability
• Increases ability to achieve data center consolidation and private cloud computing objectives and return on investment
• Adds value to existing compliance, operations, and security ecosystem

"VCOP leverages our proven business intelligence methodology to enable continuous compliance, a truly unique approach to providing this capability," said Ackerman.  "We look forward to working with agencies to support their critical security and reporting requirements, while meeting the needs for cost savings and improved performance."

ABOUT GUIDENT
Headquartered in Herndon, VA, Guident is a leading integrator of business intelligence, management consulting, and systems engineering services to the government and commercial marketplaces.  Guident assists its public and private sector clients in tightly managing project scope, budget, resources, and risks to ensure success.  For more information, visit www.guident.com.

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