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U.S. State Department Purchases Worldwide License for Computer Security Software from NTI
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 04:35:36 -0500
[Had this one in my rainy day file, and it was getting a little stale... -WK] http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000804/or_new_tec.html GRESHAM, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2000--New Technologies, Inc. (NTI), a subsidiary of the multinational Armor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AH - news), today announced that the U.S. State Department has purchased a worldwide site license for NTI's computer security software suite. The software will be installed in the more than 250 U.S. embassies worldwide. The specific terms of the contract with the U.S. State Department were not disclosed by NTI or the U.S. State Department. However, Michael R. Anderson, president of NTI, said that NTI's market-leading products DiskSearch Pro, DiskScrub and PTABLE software were purchased under the terms of the contract. NTI will also help the U.S. State Department train its employees in the use of the software and in how to handle other computer security risks that may pose a threat to U.S. interests. ``NTI has supported U.S. government military agencies and intelligence agencies for years,'' said Anderson, a former U.S. Treasury agent. ``We are strong supporters of computer security in U.S. government agencies, and we so are delighted to see that our hard work and technology will help the State Department in U.S. embassies around the world.'' Anderson added that the purchase likely resulted from NTI's latest release of a computer forensics scanning tool named DiskSearch Pro, which is run from DOS and quickly finds and documents targeted strings of text on computer storage media, such as hard drives and floppy diskettes.`` The software can search all areas of a four-gigabyte hard drive in less than 40 minutes, he pointed out. ``When classified information leaks into places it shouldn't, time is of the essence,'' Anderson explained. ``This software pinpoints security leaks in minutes using key word searches.'' By comparison, to search such data files in DOS, sector by sector, would take months, Anderson said. Since 1996, NTI has provided computer forensics tools and training to Fortune 500 corporations and non-law enforcement government agencies, in addition to over 2,600 law enforcement computer crime specialists. Today NTI's tools are used by all of the Big 5 accounting firms, numerous Fortune 500 corporations, dozens of government agencies and all branches of the U.S. military for use in security risk assessment reviews. NTI's founders developed the first computer evidence processing training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. Other NTI founders have developed and supported law enforcement agencies around the world through their development of state-of-the-art computer forensics software tools since 1989. *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ================================================================ C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org *==============================================================* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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