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Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010 – MANDIANT, the leading provider of incident response and computer forensics solutions and services, today announced it has been awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) IT Schedule 70 contract (GS-35F-0168W). The award grants government agencies direct access to MANDIANT’s incident response and computer forensics expertise, enabling MANDIANT to better serve the government IT community. The announcement was made at the GovSec and U.S. Law 2010 Conference being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the District of Columbia.
“MANDIANT is proud to be awarded the GSA IT Schedule 70 contract, a multiple award schedule, allowing for choice, flexibility, ease of use, and access to the highest quality IT products, services and solutions on the market,” said MANDIANT Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Travis Reese. “Access to MANDIANT expertise on the GSA schedule reflects our ongoing commitment to protecting our nation’s government agencies and critical infrastructure and comes at a time when sustained computer network intrusions have never been more sophisticated and pervasive.”
In January, MANDIANT announced it increased its consultant force by more than 65 percent in 2009, strengthening its leadership foothold as the industry’s go-to provider of incident response and computer forensics services and solutions. Also this year, MANDIANT released the inaugural edition of its M-Trends report, showcasing lessons learned on the frontlines battling the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) throughout the U.S. government, the defense industrial base, and commercial organizations.
MANDIANT consultants and engineers have completed advanced degrees from some of the most prestigious computer science universities; authored eight books on incident response and computer forensics; and hold top government security clearances and industry certifications. MANDIANT also maintains a firm commitment to providing high-quality training and free software to the security community.
MANDIANT Intelligent Response® (MIR), the company’s flagship software, is the security industry’s first enterprise-grade incident response management solution. MIR accelerates the collection and analysis of data in support of incident response, electronic discovery and corporate investigations. Combining the knowledge of expert incident responders and enterprise software engineers, MIR enables precise data collection and advanced analysis in a highly scalable, multi-tier, modular appliance-based solution. MANDIANT coupled its innovative technology with bleeding edge indicators of compromise to create a Threat Assessment Program™ proven to detect compromised systems at scale within large enterprises that have gone undetected by traditional security safeguards and vulnerability assessments.
To learn more about the MANDIANT GSA contract please visit: http://www.mandiant.com/about/contracts/.
MANDIANT is an information security company providing products, professional services and education to Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, domestic and foreign police departments and several of the U.S.’s leading law firms. MANDIANT security consultants are acknowledged experts in incident response, computer forensics, network security and application security. MANDIANT is a VISA approved Qualified Incident Response Assessor. In addition to authoring seven books and numerous articles about computer forensics, incident response and rootkits, MANDIANT’s consultants have been featured on news programs including CBS’s 60 Minutes, CNN’s Talkback Live, NBC News and FOX News. MANDIANT operates offices in the Washington, DC area, New York City and Los Angeles. To learn more about MANDIANT, visit http://www.mandiant.com, or read the company blog, M-Unition, at http://blog.mandiant.com.