Secure Elements got the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL™) Repository Top Contributor Award from The MITRE Corporation for invaluable contributions of security compliance content to the Repository. The company is a industry leader in standards-based IT audit and compliance management.

Jon Baker of the MITRE Corporation and part of the group moderating OVAL, stated: “The OVAL Repository Top Contributor Award is reserved for organizations that assist in making the OVAL Repository a gold standard for open information security content. Secure Elements is recognized today for their invaluable content submissions of new definitions and enhancements to existing Repository content.”

Scott Carpenter, Director of Security Labs for Secure Elements, added: “Secure Elements is proud to support the OVAL community by leveraging our experience in enterprise security compliance and vulnerability management to provide users with content that shortens the vulnerability window in the ‘scan, remediate, and verify’ cycle. This recognition reflects our commitment to author and contribute to industry leading, publicly available security content initiatives such as the OVAL Repository and for the NIST Information Security Automation Program (ISAP), where we have contributed content for auditing the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) for Microsoft Vista and XP.”

The information security community standard OVAL promotes open and publicly available security content and standardizes the transfer of this data across security utilities and services. The OVAL Repository, hosted by The MITRE Corporation, contains OVAL content that organizations can use to determine the presence of a specified software vulnerability, configuration issue, program or patch.

In addition to authoring and contributing content to ISAP that is compliant with the NIST Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), which is utilized by Federal Agencies to comply with the OMB Mandate for standard security setups, Secure Elements recently unveiled the latest release of the C5 Compliance Platform; the first enterprise-class, SCAP-compliant solution that enables automated and continuous compliance auditing for Microsoft Windows® XP and Windows Vista™. The company, Secure Elements (http://www.secure-elements.com) develops innovative products that help organizations achieve IT security compliance. They enable organizations to audit, evaluate, and comply with internal, industry, and regulatory policies. The solutions reduce business risk and IT management costs while improving systems performance and maintaining business continuity.

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