Government Security News 2016 Digital Yearbook

2016
Phantom
2016 Winner
GSN 2016 DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS
Vendors of IT and Cybersecurity Products and Solutions
Awards Category:
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Best Security Infrastructure Orchestration
Reason this entry deserves to win:
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Recent research shows cyber teams struggle to identify
and manage security alerts where remediation times
may require hours of analysts’ time on teams already
strapped for talent and resources.
Organizations like the Department of Homeland Security
and NSA talk of environments with security traffic
exceeding 1 billion alerts per day - even after reducing
the load to 1 million alerts per day with correlation and
other tools, more than 20,000 human analysts would be
needed to respond.
Automation and orchestration solutions for incident
response and threat defense operations are quickly
emerging as “must have” technologies to increase
response effectiveness, reduce costs, and ultimately
achieve cyber resiliency.
Phantom, the first company to provide an open, extensible,
and community-powered security automation
and orchestration platform, has extended its lead since
entering the market and being named RSA Conference
2016’s Most Innovative Startup earlier this year.
The Phantom platform executes digital playbooks
to automate and orchestrate the security technologies
organizations already have in place. This layer of “connective
tissue” allows users to achieve in seconds what
would normally take hours to accomplish with the
dozens of independent point products in their environment.
As further validation of Phantom’s leadership, In-Q-
Tel made a strategic investment earlier this year, and
SINET tapped Phantom as one of the most innovative
security technologies for 2016.
Phantom is actively involved in the Federal research
community with projects like Integrated Adaptive Cyber
Defense (IACD) along with the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), the National Security Agency’s Information
Assurance Directorate (NSA/IAD), and Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL).
IACD is a project intended to “radically shift the mentality
and status quo in cyber defense to secure integration
and automation to enable faster response times and
increase community prevention.”
Phantom also participates in the OpenC2 Forum
chaired by the NSA, which is a group working to develop
a reference architecture that addresses issues pertaining
to security automation command and control.
Booz Allen Hamilton and Phantom have formed a
strategic alliance, fusing Booz Allen’s decades of mission
intelligence and deep expertise architecting and implementing
cyber solutions, with Phantom’s leading security
automation and orchestration technology platform.
Booz Allen delivers its significant cyber knowledge
and proven security operations plans by crafting automation
playbooks for use on Phantom’s platform, incorporating
best practices in Cyber Threat Intelligence,
Incident Response, and Security Operations. These playbooks,
which codify security and business processes,
help leaders break down common organizational siloes
that inhibit collaboration and prevent rapid containment
and resolution of cyber events. The playbooks are
based on Booz Allen’s expertise and decades of defense
and intelligence work with the federal government.
In sum, Phantom is solving one of the biggest challenges
facing the security community today and has
been recognized for leadership and innovation in this
emerging market on several occasions. Their commitment
to federal cybersecurity community though
projects like the IACD and OpenC2 Forum, plus their
partnership with leading firms like Booz Allen Hamilton,
make Phantom an ideal choice for GSN’s Annual Homeland
Security Awards.
Link to Web Page of Nominated Organization:
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https://www.phantom.us/
Link to additional information:
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Booz Allen & Phantom Strategic Partnership Announcement:
http://www.boozallen.com/media-center/pressreleases/2016/10/automation-enables-cyber-threatmitigationat-machine-speed--pro
SINET Announces Phantom as One of Most Innovative Security
Technologies in 2016:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/
home/20160919006353/en/SINET-Announces-16-Innovative-Cybersecurity-Technologies-2016
In-Q-Tel Announces Strategic Investment in Phantom:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/
home/20160426005147/en
Phantom Named “RSA® Conference 2016’s Most Innovative
Startup:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/
home/20160301005926/en/Phantom-Named-
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2016%E2%80%99s-Innovative-Startup%E2%80%9D
Nominating contact for this entry:
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Manpreet Mattu, Director Strategic Ventures
Booz Allen Hamilton
office: 732-718-9812
Nominating organization address:
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Booz Allen Hamilton
8283 Greensboro Dr.
McLean, VA 22102
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