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Secure Decisions Delivers MeerCAT®-FS to U.S. Navy

Wireless security visualization product is available for U.S. Government users on Naval Research Laboratory website. NORTHPORT, NY, April 12, 2011 – Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc., has released a government off-the-shelf (GOTS) version of MeerCAT® to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. MeerCAT ®is a visual analytics tool that helps users locate and assess the security risks of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. The GOTS version, known as MeerCAT®-FS, was initially developed under a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) SBIR award. Through sponsorship from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), MeerCAT®-FS has been incorporated as part of NRL’s Flying Squirrel Wireless Assessment Tool Suite. The Flying Squirrel Tool Suite, which includes the Flying Squirrel wireless discovery application and other components in addition to MeerCAT®-FS, was developed to enhance the [...]

Secure Decisions2020-07-14T10:49:43-04:00Apr-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: DARPA Success Report, Flying Squirrel Wireless Assessment Tool, MeerCAT, security visualization, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, wardriving, wireless discovery, wireless intrusion detection, Wireless network security, wireless security audits|

Applied Visions reorganizes operations and administration

Controller, Operations Manager and Facility Security Officer positions are filled in this expanding small business NORTHPORT, NY, April 4, 2011 – Significant changes have occurred in the day-to-day management of Applied Visions Inc., the software engineering and research and development firm headquartered in Northport. Ms. Cathleen Ebert-Velardi has taken on the positions of Operations Manager and Facility Security Officer (FSO), and Ms. Kelly Bostwick has been promoted to Controller. As Operations Manager Ms. Ebert-Velardi is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the business including human resources, benefits administration, policies and procedures, vendor management, recruiting, purchasing, and project administration. In her role as FSO she will be responsible for compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) security regulations on AVI’s classified contracts, including personnel and facility clearances, management of AVI’s secure facilities, storage and transmission of classified [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:00:55-04:00Apr-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|

Software Assurance Product Naming Contest to be held at 2011 IAE

Secure Decisions invites IAE participants to select name for new SwA visualization tool. NORTHPORT, NY, March 4, 2011 – Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. (AVI) and developer of visual cyber defense and decision support tools, is seeking the perfect name for its forthcoming software assurance (SwA) visual analysis product. Secure Decisions will be holding the product-naming contest at the 2011 Information Assurance Exposition (IAE) on March 8-10 at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville, TN. All 2011 IAE attendees are invited to participate. Product Description Secure Decisions’ new product correlates and visualizes the results of third-party software security testing tools to improve the detection of software vulnerabilities, and ensure they are in proper context for effective triage and mitigation. The product’s multifaceted visualizations provide users the investigative tools to more reliably [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-21T14:25:30-04:00Mar-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: information assurance, software assurance, software development life cycle, software remediation, software vulnerability analysis, visual analysis|

Secure Decisions’ Research and Products to be Showcased at 2011 IAE

VIAssist and MeerCAT®-FS among products to be demonstrated at the Information Assurance Exposition to government and industry IA community. NORTHPORT, NY, March 3, 2011 – Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. (AVI) and developer of visual cyber defense and decision support tools, will be demonstrating its latest research and products at the 2011 Information Assurance Exposition (IAE). Approximately 2000 information assurance professionals and leaders from the government, industry, and academia are expected to attend the annual event. The IAE will be held in conjunction with the DoD-sponsored 2011 Information Assurance Symposium (IAS) on March 8-10 at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville, TN. Secure Decisions will demonstrate its latest information visualization tools to enhance cyber security situational awareness, perform mission impact analysis, test information operations capabilities, and train cyber defenders. Specific products [...]

Secure Decisions2020-07-14T10:46:16-04:00Mar-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: computer security, cyber network defense, information assurance, Information Assurance Symposium, information security, network security|

Secure Decisions to Advance Digital Forensics E-Training for Air Force

Division of Applied Visions on winning team led by ATC-NY to develop interactive visualizations to improve acquisition of forensic analysis skills. NORTHPORT, NY, February 22, 2011 – Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. (AVI) and developer of visual cyber defense and decision support tools, has been awarded a contract to support the development of a new digital forensics training system for the U.S. Air Force. As a member of the ATC-NY team that won the Phase II SBIR project, Secure Decisions is developing the visualization technology that will be integrated into the online forensic training program known as Alcuin. The current SBIR project is funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Under a separate Phase II SBIR contract award from AFRL, Secure Decisions is developing SimBLEND, a new web-based learning environment for [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-21T14:53:31-04:00Feb-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: Air Force Research Laboratory, Computer forensics, computer network defense training, computer-based training, digital forensic training, visualization|

VizSec2011 Announces Call for Papers

8TH International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security to be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA NORTHPORT, NY, February 2, 2011 – Organizers of VizSec2011, the international conference on information visualization for cybersecurity, today announced its “Call for Papers”. The 8th Annual International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) will be held July 20, 2011 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. VizSec2011 will be held in conjunction with the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2011). The annual symposium joins academic, government, and industry leaders from around the globe to share the latest developments and applications of visualization techniques to address current cyber security challenges. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit technical papers and panel session proposals that offer a novel contribution to security visualization. Papers are encouraged on [...]

Secure Decisions2020-04-16T11:44:49-04:00Feb-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: cyber security, information visualization, security visualization, visual analytics|

Secure Decisions Wins U.S. Air Force Cyber Defense Contract

Division of Applied Visions, Inc. to adapt its network security visualization product VIAssist™ to improve the identification of cyber threats for Air Force analysts. NORTHPORT, NY, November 9, 2010– Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions and developer of visual analytic tools for cyber defense, has received a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) award under the US Air Force Firestarter program. The company was selected for the cyber defense contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY. Under the contract, Secure Decisions will modify its VIAssist product to augment the analysis of security information and event management data. The work is scheduled to be completed by August of 2012. VIAssist is Secure Decisions’ award-winning network security visualization product that was originally developed for the U.S. Government to visualize network flow and security event data. [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:01:01-04:00Nov-2010|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: computer network security, cyber defense, security information and event management, security visualization, visual analytics|

Secure Decisions Awarded Another U.S. Department of Defense Contract for MeerCAT®

Division of Applied Visions to deliver, maintain and support GOTS version of its wireless security assessment tool for government users of Flying Squirrel. NORTHPORT, NY, November 2, 2010 – Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. and developer of visual analytic tools for cyber defense, has received an U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) award. Under the contract, Secure Decisions will deliver MeerCAT®-FS, a government off-the-shelf (GOTS) version of the company’s wireless security visualization tool. The contract work includes maintaining the software application and providing third-level product support to NRL through May 2011. MeerCAT®-FS provides an integrated set of visual tools to analyze, correlate, and report on wireless discoveries with NRL’s Flying Squirrel. By providing visual representations of the collected data, Flying Squirrel users can more easily identify, locate, and assess [...]

Secure Decisions2020-07-14T12:40:42-04:00Nov-2010|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: DARPA, Flying Squirrel, MeerCAT, Naval Research Laboratory, security visualization, wireless discovery, wireless intrusion detection, Wireless network security|

Netezza to Demonstrate VIAssist at ArcSight Protect ’10

Secure Decisions award-winning network security visualization product will be presented by Netezza at ArcSight Protect ’10, being held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD on September 19-22, 2010. Visit Booth # 25 at ArcSight Protect '10 and learn from global data warehouse leader, Netezza, how VIAssist is being used by computer security specialists in the Government and corporate enterprises to make it easier to identify network security risks.

Secure Decisions2017-01-12T14:43:41-05:00Sep-2010|Categories: Events, News|

Visual Analysis of Code Security

Goodall, J. R., Radwan, H., & Halseth, L. (2010, September). Visual analysis of code security. In Proceedings of the seventh international symposium on visualization for cyber security (pp. 46-51). ACM.

Secure Decisions2017-04-13T13:31:46-04:00Sep-2010|Categories: Application Security, Publications, Visualization|

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