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NASA SEWP Contract Considered “Great Example” of Public/Private Partnership.

By Lara Bergman | Published: December 17, 2012

In a recent article for Washington Technology, author Mark Hoover interviewed Brian Haney, vice president of client services for Deltek FedFocus, who lauded a number of governmental contracts that will continue to reshape that market, including the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement. Sword & Shield holds a SEWP IV contract.

The next market-moving opportunity is NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V (SEWP V). In Haney’s opinion, the SEWP contract is “possibly one of the greatest examples of true public and private partnership.”

It’s a contract generally for computer equipment, and therefore, “there isn’t much distinction between the top incumbents and the next few,” he said. “Work tends to be evenly spread among the contract holders.”

There are 52 incumbents for this contract, with the top four being World Wide Technology Inc., CDW, GTSI and Sword & Shield.

As for its value, it’s worth roughly $10.5 billion over seven years, Haney said.

Read the article in its entirety here.

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Free Gartner Group Magic Quadrant – Secure Email Gateways 2012

By Courtney Culver | Published: December 12, 2012

Gartner GroupGartner Group Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways 2012

 The secure email gateway market is mature. Buyers should focus on strategic vendors, data loss prevention capability, encryption and better protection from targeted phishing attacks.

The secure email gateway (SEG) market is defined by solutions that provide enterprise message transfer agent (MTA) capabilities, offer protection against inbound and outbound email threats (such as spam, phishing attacks and malware), and satisfy outbound corporate and regulatory policy requirements. SEG solutions can be offered in the form of software or appliances that go on customer premises, hosted solutions that reside in solution providers’ data centers, multitenancy software as a service (SaaS) that exists in multiple data centers around the globe, or a combination of these — often referred to as a hybrid deployment. Unified threat management (UTM) devices that combine firewalls with some spam filtering are not included in this market.

Sword & Shield offers email gateways from Barracuda Networks and Websense. Choose from a traditional self-hosted deployment or cloud-based options. If you need a managed service we offer solutions from IBM/ISS and SecureWorks.

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Sword & Shield Offers LiquidCool Solutions on SEWP Contract

By Lara Bergman | Published: December 11, 2012

Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, Inc. is pleased to announce it now offers LiquidCool Solutions as part of its product lines available for purchase on the company’s NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV contract.

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LiquidCool Solutions Inc/LiquidCool, based in Rochester, MN. is well-known for the world’s first commercially available high-performance PCs, top-end workstations, and servers with total liquid submersion cooling technology. LiquidCool’s patent portfolio boasts 14 granted patents and 21 patent pending.

“We are delighted to announce that we have leveraged our relationship with CPI Partner Direct to offer the LiquidCool product on the Sword & Shield NASA SEWP contract,” said Sword & Shield Director of Marketing and Programs Raymond Kahre. “This product is well suited for military and intelligence communities, but our civilian customers will also find LiquidCool to be an effective, innovative, and green solution for their data centers.”

CPI Partner Direct, a professional services organization that provides IT, business operations and specialized engineering services, serves as one of Sword & Shield’s SEWP sales agents.  CPI offers customized multi-vendor solutions to telecommunications service providers, healthcare providers, governments, large enterprises and to small and medium-sized businesses.

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Free Gartner Group Report: Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection 2012

By Courtney Culver | Published: December 6, 2012

Check PointThe Gartner Group has a new Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection, released September 6, 2012. The report focuses on securing data that resides on storage devices with high mobility:

In the mobile data protection (MDP) market, Gartner tracks software utilities that enforce confidentiality policies by encrypting data, and then managing access to that encrypted data on the primary and secondary storage systems of end-user devices. The market primarily serves devices that are mobile in design and use case, even though the market originated earlier than laptops. Storage systems include the primary boot drive of a workstation and removable devices used for portability. Storage technologies affected by MDP products include magnetic hard-disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), flash drives and optical media. Some vendors may be able to set policies for network storage, but that is not core to the current definition.

Check Point, McAfee, and Sophos are in the Leaders quadrant. The report is available at Check Point’s site with free registration.

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Free Gartner Group Report: Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) 2012

By Courtney Culver | Published: July 16, 2012

SourcefireGartner has released their 2012 Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention. For the sixth year Sourcefire is in the Magic Quadrant. Juniper Network’s IDP is just barely outside of the Magic Quadrant, having made steady improvements over the years.

You can read the report online, no registration required. Sword & Shield offers Sourcefire and Juniper solutions. Email or call us at 800-860-0075 to discuss IPS protection for your network.

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Free Gartner Group Report: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) 2012

By Courtney Culver | Published: June 19, 2012

The Gartner Group has released the new Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management. Q1 LabsDownload the report for free from Q1 Labs. Visit SecureHQ for a Q1 Labs Demos on Demand video presentation.

Sword & Shield sells Q1 Labs SIEM, along with RSA’s Envision,  Solarwinds Log and Event Manager (formerly TriGeo), and our newest offering, Prism’s EventTracker. Call or email us today to discuss your SIEM and logging needs.

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Sword & Shield Places 132 on CRN’s Solutions Provider 500 List

By Lara Bergman | Published: June 6, 2012

Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, Inc. continues its streak on the Solutions Provider 500 list for the sixth year in a row by placing No. 132 on the elite roster.

Formerly known as the VAR 500, the UBM Channel’s CRN Solution Provider 500 ranks the highest producing solution provider organizations in the IT channel from hardware sales, software sales, and managed IT services.

The Solution Provider 500 ranking is based on revenue size, and considers each company’s forward-thinking approach to the channel. In particular, the Solution Provider 500 selection panel sought to recognize companies that build practices around data centers and virtualization while offering software integration and application development.

Revenue size is determined by the amount of annual products and services sold over the course of 2011.  Companies with no public documentation were required to submit a notarized affidavit attesting to their 2010 and 2011 revenues.

Sword & Shield’s gross revenue rose from $139.1 million in 2010 to $142.6 million in 2011.

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Free Gartner Group Report: Unified Threat Management (UTM) 2012

By Courtney Culver | Published: May 30, 2012

The Gartner Group has released their 2012 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (UTM). We were happy to see Check Point in the Leader’s Quadrant.

For a limited time you can download the Magic Quadrant for UTM from Check Point. Free registration is required.

Check Point has a variety of new appliances and offerings, from their SMB Cloud Managed Security Services to the new Security Systems appliances for enterprises and datacenters.

Check Point continues to roll out new software blades so you can easily add components to your Check Point security solutions, including blades for Anti-Spam, Anti-Bot, DLP, IPS, Logging, Mobile Access, Web Security, and much more.

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RESCHEDULED: EventTracker Lunch in Chattanooga May 23

By Lara Bergman | Published: April 17, 2012

Sword & Shield and our vendor partner, EventTracker by Prism Microsystems, will host a Lunch and Learn on Wednesday, May 23, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Porter’s Steakhouse in Chattanooga called, “SIEMs: Decoding the Mayhem.”

Bill Dean, Sword & Shield’s director of computer forensics and security assessments, will discuss how Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems can make a difference from a time and cost perspective when a computer security incident occurs.

A.N. Ananth, EventTracker’s CEO, will discuss how EventTracker’s SIEM product line can quickly and easily search through terabytes of log data to pinpoint critical events behind security and operational incidents.

About EventTracker

EventTracker is a security, compliance, and operations solution that provides a 360 degree view of your organization’s IT infrastructure. It is a comprehensive Security Incident Event Management (SIEM) solution that combines log management, log monitoring, log search, file integrity monitoring, system monitoring, reporting, analytics, and visualization for continuous monitoring of system logs, users, file changes, servers and desktops, all the way to USB and writeable media. EventTracker is designed to meet the security, compliance and operational needs of organizations with 100 to 10,000 devices in their infrastructure, protecting against inside and outside threats. Offering incremental scalability, EventTracker is a cost-effective and efficient solution, providing all the functionality and usability demanded by today’s IT security professionals.

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We’ve Partnered with nCircle to Provide SMB Scanning Services

By Lara Bergman | Published: February 22, 2012

Sword & Shield announced this week a new, strategic partnership with nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions.

Under the new agreement, Sword & Shield will resell PureCloud in combination with our unique Risk Calculator in order to bring comprehensive network security and risk assessment to small and mid-sized businesses.

This service:

  • Can scan every internal or external-facing device on a small to mid-size network
  • Requires no hardware or software deployment
  • Scans every device, prioritizes all discovered vulnerabilities and provides guidance on the steps necessary to reduce or eliminate those risks

Request a demo and a free trial today or visit our security products website to order.

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