Press Releases

On June 22nd, 2012 Secure Decisions will deliver computer security awareness education as part of a Continuing Law Education (CLE) program offered at the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security. NORTHPORT, NY, May 22nd, 2012 – The “Protecting Electronic Information in the Law Office” course is designed to educate practicing attorneys about their legal and ethical responsibilities to protect electronically stored information. Secure Decisions will be delivering an interactive educational session that focuses on understanding how easy it is for confidential data to be inadvertently released in the electronic workplace, an essential first step to ensuring adequate protection for electronic information. The Secure Decisions session will cover a variety of computer security topics including data leakage, malicious software, email and phishing, safe web browsing, and mobile and wireless device safety.  It will be taught by [...]

Under a DHS S&T Phase II SBIR, the Secure Decisions team will develop a Software Assurance Visual Analysis Tool that visualizes and correlates weaknesses in software. NORTHPORT, NY, January 3rd, 2012– This DHS S&T-funded project will visualize vulnerabilities in software systems, which can be exploited to attack information systems. Some of these vulnerabilities are found as part of systems development and testing, but most are not identified until systems are deployed – when these software vulnerabilities jeopardize the security of other information systems. DHS S&T recognizes the need for more rigorous and routine software testing and vulnerability analysis to identify and remediate security weaknesses before systems are deployed into critical environments where those vulnerabilities can be exploited. Secure Decisions’ Visual Analysis Tool visualizes and correlates weakness data from disparate code analysis tools, putting them into [...]

MeerCAT® was nominated as a finalist in the Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution category. NORTHPORT, NY, November 10th, 2011 – The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has been selected as a finalist in Government Security News’ (GSN) 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program. The winners’ trophies will be presented at the 2011 awards dinner, which will take place in Washington, DC, on Monday evening, November 14. The GSN Homeland Security Awards Program honors the partnership between all branches of federal, state and local governments, and private sector vendors of IT security and physical security technologies. Their combined efforts successfully defend and protect the nation’s people, property, and way of life. The GSN 2011 Homeland Security Awards are divided into three categories: Outstanding Vendors of IT Security Products and Solutions Outstanding Vendors of Physical Security Products and [...]