Accuvant Launches New Threat Intelligence Briefing Service

PRESS RELEASE

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accuvant, the Authoritative Source for information security, today announced at Black Hat USA 2013, the immediate availability of its new Threat Intelligence Briefing (TIB) service. Delivered by Accuvant's world-renowned Accuvant LABS research experts, this unique service gives organizations a quarterly on-site 'conference' that provides essential information about emerging threats and trends before they are encountered in real-world scenarios. It also delivers effective, field-tested strategies to help organizations deal with threats.

"As the number and type of legitimate threats affecting organizations continues to grow, threat intelligence continues to become more and more important," said Jon Miller, vice president, research and development for Accuvant. "Accuvant's enterprise-class clients wanted a research-based service to keep their IT staff up to speed on the most relevant information security industry facts and attack vectors. We responded with our new Threat Intelligence Briefing – a service that provides valuable insight gained from our advanced research findings and hands on experience at thousands of client sites across industry verticals. We're extremely excited about this service, and looking forward to helping more organizations create better solutions and strategies to deal with their unique security threats."

The quarterly conferences included in Accuvant's TIB are delivered as four-hour, forum-based discussions comprised of information share, audience interaction and client-specific use cases and scenarios. They cover a range of topics, such as:

Trends in compromises and breaches

Security research from the industry as a whole

Accuvant LABS' confidential research

Anatomy of a next-generation hack

The current state of advanced malware

Market trends in 0-day exploit sales/cyber war update

Threats targeted at applicable industry verticals

Next-generation technologies (products/technologies/techniques)

Industry buzz phrases and distillation of pertinent fact

Accuvant LABS is the largest and most skilled team of information security professionals in the world. Each of the team's 250+ leading security experts is committed to performing research, developing solutions and working with clients – and one another – to solve specific security problems as well as those of the industry at large. Accuvant LABS is comprised of respected information security veterans, established thought leaders, sought out speakers and published authors who combine extensive experience, technical prowess and practical research to bring clients superior results and value.

About Accuvant

Accuvant is the Authoritative Source for information security. Since 2002, the company has served more than 5,200 clients, including half of the Fortune 100 and more than 900 educational institutions and government entities. Headquartered in Denver, Accuvant has offices across the United States and Canada and has the largest and most skilled team of technical security professionals in the world – Accuvant LABS. For more information, please visit www.accuvant.com.