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410-222-7410 SECURE DECISIONS JOINS CHESAPEAKE INNOVATION CENTER IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY TO ADVANCE CYBERSECURITY R&D FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Annapolis, MD (December 09, 2010)
Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. and developer of visual analytic tools for cyber defense, has joined the Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC) www.cic-tech.org in Anne Arundel County, MD. The Center’s proximity to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Fort Meade, and defense and intelligence agencies will allow Secure Decisions to better serve its government clients.
This past year, Secure Decisions has had a 20 percent growth in cyber security contract funding from the U.S. Government. The work focuses on providing information visualization technology to support the complex defense and national security needs of military decisions makers and government security specialists. Beyond serving as a major R&D resource for cyber defense visualization technologies, Secure Decisions develops off-the-shelf products that exploit visual analytics to improve the situational awareness of computer network defenders.
“I am delighted that Secure Decisions, a New York-based company, has chosen to join CIC in Anne Arundel County,” said Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold. “As a member of CIC, Secure Decisions joins a strong technology and defense community where innovation is connected to defense contractors and agencies to strengthen homeland and national security.”
“We are so pleased to have Secure Decisions join CIC,” said Sarah Djamshidi, executive director of CIC. “CIC’s mission is to connect the latest innovations in informatics, physical, and cybersecurity technologies with the government agencies and commercial users and by adding Secure Decisions, we are able to leverage their extensive expertise in analytic tools for cyber defense with our partners and other stake holders in the intelligence community.”
“We are poised for even greater growth in 2011,” said Frank Zinghini, the CEO of Applied Visions, the parent company of Secure Decisions. “As DHS, DoD and the intelligence community continue to enhance their capabilities against the ever-growing and increasingly more complex threats against our nation’s assets, our expertise in cyber security visualization and mission impact of cyber attacks will be in even greater demand. Our association with CIC positions us to reach our customers faster and collaborate more efficiently with our technology partners.”
About Secure Decisions
Secure Decisions was launched by Applied Visions, Inc. in 2000 to focus on cyber security research and products for the government. Today, Secure Decisions is a leader in security visualization, with an established track record of R&D contracts and product development. Secure Decisions’ products are used to enhance the situational awareness of senior officers, computer network defenders and other security professionals in government and commercial organizations. SecureScope®, VIAssist™, and MeerCAT® are among Secure Decisions’ extensive portfolio of cyber defense solutions. For more information, please visit avi.com and securedecisions.avi.com.
About the Chesapeake Innovation Center
The Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC), is America’s first business accelerator for government and homeland/national security initiatives. The CIC mission is:
• To scout technology innovations and solutions (on a national scale) in the areas of national, homeland and cyber security that can bridge the newly identified capability gaps for our Government, Homeland Security and Intelligence Community partners. And
• To accelerate the growth of small businesses and provide hands-on assistance to regional entrepreneurs to guide them towards specific capabilities/solutions that match our partner community, thus bringing technology innovations to the government market.
CIC has scouted, screened, vetted and presented more than 150 technology companies from across the nation for the CIC partners. In addition, CIC has provided assistance to more than 36 small businesses to date. CIC services include access to potential customers, partners, government agencies and system integrators, hands-on coaching and assistance from experts, market strategies, fundraising and other milestone oriented services to help emerging technology companies succeed in the market place.
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