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Director of Secure Decisions Invited to Participate in DARPA’s First Cyber Colloquium

NORTHPORT, NY, December 13th, 2011– Dr. Anita D’Amico, an information security and visualization specialist, Director of the Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions Inc., was invited to participate in DARPA’s first Cyber Colloquium on November 7th, 2011. The DARPA Cyber Colloquium will investigate future techniques and technologies for securing the Nation’s cyber infrastructure and assuring the Department of Defense’s cyber capabilities. The colloquium included a keynote by the DARPA director, presentations by industry and government leaders, and discussions with DARPA program managers on current and future cyber research directions. Members of the cyber community from academia, industry, and government, were selected based on their written response to three questions posed by DARPA: At present, attackers in cyberspace seem to have the initiative and hence the advantage. What specific technologies should DARPA develop to address the [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-22T09:04:45-04:00Dec-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: computer network security, cyber defense, cyber security, cyberspace, DARPA, security visualization, visual analytics|

VizSec2011 Announces Symposium Chairs

Government, academic and industry leaders will lead the 8TH International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security. NORTHPORT, NY, February 1, 2011 – VizSec, the international conference on information visualization for cybersecurity, announced its Organizing Committee Chairs for the 8th Annual International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec2011). The top-tier list brings together experts in information visualization and security to provide the only international forum on innovations in visualization technology to advance cyber security. This year’s event will be held July 20, 2011 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, in conjunction with the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2011). The VizSec2011 Symposium Chairs and Organizing Committee members are: General Chair Lt. Col. Gregory Conti, professor at the US Military Academy, director of West Point’s Cyber Security Center, and author of Googling Security [...]

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

Secure Decisions Wins Contract to Support the Development of DARPA’s National Cyber Range

Division of Applied Visions, Inc. is the only New York company participating in this program in support of the nation’s cyber security NORTHPORT, NY, June 29, 2010 – The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions, Inc. (AVI) has been awarded a contract of approximately $1 million to support the Phase II development of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-sponsored National Cyber Range (NCR) program. The Range will be a national asset for evaluating technologies to enhance the security of our country's cyber infrastructure. AVI's Secure Decisions Division was awarded the contract as a member of the Johns Hopkins University Advanced Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) team and is the only New York organization participating in the development of the NCR prototype. The Secure Decisions Division is responsible for supporting the development of software that controls, monitors, [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-22T13:11:35-04:00Jun-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: cyber defense, cyber security, DARPA, National Cyber Range, network security, network test engineering|

Secure Decisions Joins Chesapeake Innovation Center in Anne Arundel Country to Advance Cybersecurity R&D for Federal Government

NORTHPORT, NY, December 10, 2010– Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. and developer of visual analytic tools for cyber defense, has joined the Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC) in Anne Arundel County, MD to accelerate the development and use of new cyber security visualization technology. The Center’s proximity to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Fort Meade, and defense and intelligence agencies, will allow Secure Decisions to better serve its government clients. This past year, Secure Decisions has had a 20 percent growth in cyber security contract funding from the U.S. Government. The work focuses on providing information visualization technology to support the complex defense and national security needs of military decisions makers and government security specialists. Beyond serving as a major R&D resource for cyber defense visualization technologies, Secure Decisions develops products [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-22T13:12:18-04:00May-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: computer network defenders, cyber security, information visualization, security visualization, visual analytics|

Secure Decisions Takes Residence at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center

Division of Applied Visions to advance its visualization technology for state and local cybersecurity preparedness. NORTHPORT, NY, May 17, 2011 – Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. and developer of visual analytic tools for cyber defense, has taken residence in the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, NY as a Resident Research Partner. The Morrelly Center is owned and operated by the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security (the Foundation). The Foundation has been bringing together public and private organizations to accelerate research and development of technology for local and state first responders and law enforcement. Among Secure Decisions’ initiatives at the Foundation is the advancement and adaptation of its security visualization technology to help security forces protect critical assets against cyber threats. “As a Resident Research Partner, Secure Decisions is broadening [...]

Secure Decisions2020-07-14T10:56:32-04:00May-2011|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: critical infrastructure protection, cyber security, homeland security, Long Island Forum for Technology, MeerCAT, Morrelly Homeland Security Center, wireless intrusion detection|

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’ MeerCAT® a DARPA 2010 Success Standout

DARPA singles out wireless security technology developed by Applied Visions, Inc. division as one of its success stories for 2010 The MeerCAT wireless analysis tool depicts network usage patterns and potential vulnerabilities. NORTHPORT, NY, March 15, 2010 – For the second time in its history, the Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has been honored by DARPA for its small business success gallery. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), selected MeerCAT®, along with a few other select DARPA-sponsored projects, to receive this recognition. MeerCAT, a tool designed to analyze wireless risks to critical cyber assets, is among an even smaller group of computer security technologies to be commended in this way.

Secure Decisions2020-08-03T11:19:13-04:00Mar-2010|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: cyber defense, cyber security, DARPA, Flying Squirrel, fraud prevention, information assurance, information security, Kismet, network defense, risk management, SBIR, wardrive, wireless security|