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NORTHPORT, NY, April 25, 2011– Laurin Buchanan,  a subject matter expert on information security with the Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions Inc., was invited to participate in NITRD’s Cyber Security Assumption Buster Workshop on Defense-in-Depth (DiD) on March 22nd, 2011.  The workshop was the first in a series of four cybersecurity workshops conducted by The Federal Special Cyber Operations Research and Engineering (SCORE) Interagency Working Group. The workshop brought together a diverse group including practitioners and researchers to participate in an exploratory discussion to determine if there is a consensus in the community on whether DiD is faulty, the reasons why, and possible alternatives. Defense-in-depth is a strategy that involves layering security mechanisms in order to increase security of a system as a whole. Approximately fifty individuals were asked to participate in the workshop [...]

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 [...]