Anchors Away! Intellitactics SIEM Protects Naval Combat System and Packages Software...

Anchors Away! Intellitactics SIEM Protects Naval Combat System and Packages Software On a Ship-Stable Compact Flash Drive

Intellitactics and DRS Technologies Team on Naval Project for
Security Management and Incident Response
RESTON, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Intellitactics announced that its Intellitactics Security Manager
(ISM) has been selected by DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) to serve
as the centerpiece of a security information and event management
system designed for the US Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
to protect the Navy's Ship Self-Defense Systems (SSDS), a combat
system that automates on-board defense sensors and weapon systems
across different US Navy ships.

The largest of the Navy's five systems commands, NAVSEA accounts
for nearly one-fifth of the Navy's budget, manages more than 150
acquisition programs, and has 33 activities in 16 states. With a force
of 53,000 civilian, military, and contract support personnel, NAVSEA
engineers, builds, buys, and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines
and their combat systems.

Bill Rucker, director of public sector sales for Intellitactics,
explains the significance of this project. "The principal air threat
to US Naval surface ships is a variety of highly capable anti-ship
cruise missiles. Detection, tracking, assessment, and engagement
decisions are required to defend against these threats, with the
duration from initial detection of a missile to its engagement with
weapons typically on the order of a minute or less. The SSDS is
designed to accomplish these defensive actions. The protection and
security of this on-board network is crucial."

DRS Technologies serves as prime contractor, providing overall
program management and system integration, to integrate Intellitactics
Security Manager with NAVSEA's security operations arena. Security
Manager will be used to protect the Ship Self-Defense Systems MK-2
Open Architecture Computing Environment by monitoring mission-critical
technologies for security risk. Operating on a compact flash drive
hardened for naval system deployment, the system will provide for
unmanned, on-board monitoring, as well as for the investigation and
forensic analysis of security incidents.

Thom Rubel, Practice Director, Government Programs, IDC Government
Insights, comments on the criticality of security management and
incident response: "An effective security strategy relies on three
critical elements: detection, prevention, and response. Should either
of the first two fail, the ability to quickly respond and mitigate
potential damage is the last line of defense."

With real-time access to prioritized security alerts, NAVSEA will
be able to accelerate response capabilities. Sunil Bhargava, Chief
Technology Officer for Intellitactics, comments on the basis for the
selection: "In seeking a security management system for NAVSEA, DRS
Technologies was looking for a solution that had both an internal data
store with superior compression capabilities and an internal security
knowledge base, and which could operate on a Linux single-service
system and actively integrate with the war-fighter's monitoring
console. Plus, hard drives can't be used on a ship because a ship
shakes when cannons are fired. By placing Security Manager on a heat-
and percussion-tested compact flash drive, Intellitactics was able to
meet all of the requirements."

Intellitactics Security Manager is a comprehensive enterprise
security management software solution that consolidates and correlates
security events, generates and ranks actionable security alerts to
accelerate incident response, and automates reporting. By reducing
false positives, Security Manager enables security analysts to quickly
investigate incidents in order to preempt cyber attacks. A highly
automated reporting system provides hundreds of reports categorized by
regulatory controls and standards.

About Intellitactics, Inc.

Headquartered in Reston, VA, Intellitactics provides a suite of
complementary security incident and event management (SIEM) products
for organizations of all sizes. Well-known as the provider of
Intellitactics Security Manager, the optimal enterprise security
management solution, to the largest organizations in the world,
Intellitactics has expanded its product leadership with a line of
security management appliances, Intellitactics SAFE. The combination
of the appliances and software products underscores Intellitactics
product leadership in providing solutions for log management,
compliance, threat management and incident response to every
organization regardless of size or purchasing power. By combining any
of the products of the suite, global organizations can effectively
distribute SIEM capabilities outside headquarters. Complementary to
Security Manager is Intellitactics(TM) SAM, which features security
assurance metrics(TM) on a configurable dashboard. Intellitactics was
awarded Common Criteria Certification in December 2004, making it the
first software provider to earn this certification as a security
information and event management solution. Founded in 1996,
Intellitactics is backed by JMI Equity Fund LP and Lazard Technology
Partners and is ranked by well-known industry analysts as a market
leader known for product development, delivery and thought leadership.
Visit us at www.intellitactics.com.

About DRS Technologies

DRS Technologies, headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, is a
leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to
military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors
worldwide. The company employs approximately 10,000 people. For more
information about DRS Technologies, please visit the company's web
site at www.drs.com.

Intellitactics, Inc.
Suzanne Porter-Kuchay, 703-406-2575
spk@intellitactics.com

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