The Canton Group Adds Technology Risk Manager (TRM) to GSA Schedule

Prevari's Automated Risk Analysis Tool for IT security now available to Government buyers

Minneapolis, MN. December 22, 2008 - Prevari Platinum partner The Canton Group, an IT services company based in Baltimore, MD, today announced the availability of Prevari's Technology Risk Manager (TRM) product line via GSA schedule GS-35F-0140.
TRM is a breakthrough product for IT security that automatically analyzes the risks present in an organization's IT infrastructure. Unlike a vulnerability scan that simply identifies the existence of a known set of software defects, TRM serves as an indicator of how secure the organization's software is at the enterprise level.

"Federal Government agencies are under constant pressure to report and demonstrate compliance with IT security standards and frameworks for both internal and intra-agency computing activity," said Ethan Kazi, CEO, The Canton Group. "Using TRM, we can apply a quantitative and repeatable framework to the IT security analysis process for Federal Government agencies," he said.
The Canton Group offers IT security consulting to state, local, and Federal Government agencies, and plans to use TRM as part of its toolkit for analyzing government IT systems. "The availability of TRM via the GSA schedule now makes it easy for Federal agencies to acquire the valuable capabilities of this product for their organizations," Kazi noted.

According to KoniKaye Jeschke, Prevari CEO, "TRM's early success in commercial markets such as finance, energy, and high-technology clearly applies in the Federal enterprise space. The ability to calculate quantitative risk metrics and model risk and compliance decisions to support critical enterprise IT security decisions is a powerful management tool." What's more, TRM's ability to easily integrate with existing IT security tools and practices minimizes the cost and complexity of implementation while at the same time optimizing near-term, hi-impact IT security results for decision makers.

TRM's automated features and capabilities can help organizations of all sizes work toward compliance with IT security mandates such as the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) and computer security guidelines published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). "By using TRM to measure a system's strengths and weaknesses, we can demonstrate to our Federal Government clients where they should best apply their limited budgets to achieve the highest level of impact for IT security," Kazi said.

About The Canton Group
The Canton Group - http://www.cantongroup.com is a Baltimore, MD based company that provides IT services and IT security consulting to customers in the Baltimore/Washington region. The company also has practices that provide secure website development and hosting, e-commerce, network management, programming, and systems development services to state, local, and Federal Government organizations.