Herndon, VA (PRWEB via PRWebDirect) September 6, 2006 –- Secure Elements, Inc. (www.secure-elements.com), a leader in compliance and vulnerability management solutions, announced today that they have completed the Phase 3 correctness testing making their product, C5 Enterprise Vulnerability Management, OVAL-Compatible. This achievement makes them one of three vendors that have achieved OVAL Version 5 Compatibility to date – Secure Elements, RedHat, and ThreatGuard. Other vendors with products compatible with Version 4.2 are working towards upgrading to Version 5.
Scott Carpenter, CISSP, director of the Security Labs at Secure Elements, has also received an invitation to sit on the OVAL Board of Directors. As a Board member, Carpenter will advise on the direction of the XML-based OVAL (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language) and ensure the ability of vendors to implement this standard to customers through their hardware, software and services offerings. The OVAL effort was initiated by MITRE, and involves representatives from a broad spectrum of industries, academia and government organizations, including operating system, software and security tool vendors.
"The industry support that is developing for “Official OVAL-compatibility” demonstrates another milestone of success in our efforts to enable security content automation. On behalf of Secure Elements and our Security Labs, I am excited to join the OVAL Board of Directors," said Carpenter. "Secure Elements believes in supporting initiatives that are critical to safeguarding the critical infrastructure components of our country. Embracing and delivering solutions with frictionless security content exchange ensures that those with the need to know will get their information when it’s needed most – as soon as new threats and vulnerabilities are discovered.”
About OVALTM
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 (vulnerability, configuration, patch state, etc.); and reporting the results of this assessment. The repositories are collections of publicly available and open content that utilize the language.
About Secure Elements
Secure Elements is dedicated to developing innovative products to evolve the way organizations achieve IT security compliance. We enable organizations to audit, evaluate, and comply with internal, industry, and regulatory policies. Our solutions reduce business risk and IT management costs while improving systems performance and maintaining business continuity. Based in Northern Virginia, Secure Elements serves organizations in the federal government and critical infrastructure markets, as well the Global 1000.
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