Citadel Security Software Adds Providence Health System to Growing Customer Base30 January 2005
Citadel Security Software Inc. (Nasdaq:CDSS), a leader in enterprise vulnerability management and policy enforcement solutions, announced today that it has added Providence Health System to its growing number of healthcare customers. Providence Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare services organization, has selected Citadel's Hercules automated vulnerability remediation technology as part of an effort to deliver proactive network security protection to workstations and servers across their computer networks.
Due to the sensitive nature of patient information and mandates like HIPAA, healthcare organizations must proactively protect against the enormous number of security vulnerabilities that plague IT networks. Manually resolving the vulnerabilities found on each device is a time-consuming and resource-intensive task, making it an ineffective approach to fully protect personal medical records and private data. Automated vulnerability remediation technology helps organizations mitigate the risk of security vulnerabilities by providing IT staff with the means to remediate vulnerabilities quickly and effectively while meeting IT security requirements.
"We are excited to have Providence Health System as the newest addition to our growing healthcare vertical customer base," said Ed Krupa, executive vice president sales, Citadel Security Software. "We are confident that implementing Hercules, a proactive vulnerability management solution, will help them reduce IT security risk and comply with government mandates."
Citadel's Hercules is the first enterprise-class vulnerability remediation solution to automate the resolution of all classes of vulnerabilities. With the largest library of tested vulnerability remedies across Windows and UNIX platforms and interoperability with industry leading network scanners and vulnerability assessment tools, Hercules has been successfully deployed across large commercial and government enterprises.
About Providence Health System
Providence Health System serves communities across a four-state area -- Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California, with a comprehensive array of services. These include acute and primary care, outpatient services, transitional care, home and hospice care, long term care, assisted living, and housing. Providence Health System operates 17 acute care hospitals, 12 freestanding long term care facilities, and 19 low income and assisted living facilities. The system also works closely with its network of physician organizations and sponsors health plans covering more than 772,000 members and other eligible lives in Oregon and southwest Washington. Nearly 33,000 employees serve within their respective geographic locations. The system office is located in Seattle, Washington. For more information, visit www.providence.org.
About Citadel
Citadel Security Software Inc., a leader in enterprise vulnerability management solutions powered by AVR technology, helps enterprises effectively neutralize security vulnerabilities. Citadel's patent-pending, Common Criteria EAL 3 certified Hercules® technology provides users with full control over the automated remediation process, enabling efficient aggregation, prioritization and resolution of vulnerabilities detected by industry-standard vulnerability assessment tools. SecurePC(TM) and NetOFF(TM) products enable companies to enforce security policies from a single point of control. Citadel's solutions enable organizations to ensure the confidentiality of information, reduce the time and costs associated with the inefficient manual remediation process, and facilitate compliance with organizational security policies and government mandates such as FISMA, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley legislation. Citadel's customers include the Department of Defense, MCI, Cushman & Wakefield and Providence Health System among others. For more information on Citadel, visit www.citadel.com, or contact the company at (214) 520-9292.
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Editors Note: Citadel is a trademark and Hercules is a registered trademark of Citadel Security Software Inc.
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Laura Sellers, 214-234-2504
lsellers@citadel.com
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