Through a comprehensive suite of security solutions, Criterion helps customers manage their security: from networks to applications, wired to wireless. Whether assessing a network or application, designing an effective security program, or monitoring and managing the security of a network, Criterion provides vendor-neutral solutions that help safeguard organizations against security risk while directly supporting business needs.

Ultimately, Criterion can provide a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of managed services tailored to our customer requirements for solving the needs of their mission-critical Internet applications. This offering includes onsite and remotely hosted solutions for organizations looking to effectively outsource strategic elements of their infrastructure. Criterion solutions deliver the building blocks necessary for clients to securely connect to mission-critical applications on the Internet and to communicate with employees, customers and partners.

All Criterion offerings are supported by a co-managed service delivery platform driven by flexible, scalable tools and technologies, operated from a disaster-resilient Security Operations Center using proven processes and expert staff. This platform integrates threat, vulnerability and event information via a centralized, secure Web console, enabling analysts and managers to better manage security as part of their business.

FastPoint Solutions™ - Fast, transparent, fluid decision making has become a critical part of today’s business environment with essential business processes relying on the decisions made. However, effective decision making is increasingly hampered by analysts having access to too much relevant information and more people involved in the discussion through the extensive use of new collaborative. FastPoint SolutionsTM is a 21st century platform integrating the power of FAST ESP search with the market leading collaborative capabilities of Sharepoint 2007. This new platform supports a new class of business applications developed in Microsoft Dynamics delivering capability to customers through reuseable, customizable business templates.

Information Discovery - In today’s fast moving environment instant access to critical information is essential. Information discovery is an end-to-end process integrating key technologies that result in new, powerful, and analytical capabilities that support unique business needs. A vital part of the information discovery solution is the need to reach out and federate information stored in different systems and in different organizations. Next generation solutions will focus on usability, analytics, and personalization, while evolving the infrastructure into an agile, extensive SOA implementation. Criterion has expertise in delivering end-to-end system integration to the optimum levels required.

Identity & Security - As information migrates from the analog world to the digital world the concerns around identity and security increases exponentially. Digital information is now “knowledge in motion” and the issues associated with identity and security are critical to ensuring the analytical capability continues to improve. Search and collaboration capabilities are often described as “democratize technologies” allowing ready access to “what” and “who “is needed to get the job done. The challenge in is how to take maximum advantage of the search and collaboration technologies while protecting the knowledge that is created by the process. Finding the right balance of access and collaboration with the security implications of the knowledge discovered is the mission of Criterion’s Identity and Security practice.

Secure Managed Systems Overview