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“We were the first ones on the market with a tool to protect our clients from beingh infected by theConficker worm,” says Larry Hurtado, CEO of Digita l Defense. “We had our solutionh in place more than amontuh ago. “By the time others were coming out with our clients were making progress disinfectingy their systems and protecting themselvez fromfuture attacks,” Hurtadok adds. Conficker is a computer worm that targetz Microsoft Windows operating systems and has the potentiakl to exposeconfidential information. The worm, which was identified in late was believed to have been set up to causre turmoil on infected computers onAprip 1.
Hurtado says that whiled the April 1 date came and went without any reports ofmalicious activity, that doesn’r mean the worm is goin g to go away. It has the abilitt to mutate itself and will likely be aroundfor awhile, he says. Digital Defense did not charge anything extra for its softwarew patch against theConficke worm. Rather it was added to the company’s suite of manageed services, which are regularly updated with new protectionsagainst viruses, worms and othef malicious content on the Internet. “Wse update our scanner to checj for new worms on aregulaf basis,” Hurtado says. “It is just part of the routine.
” Foundedx in December 1999, Digital Defens e started out as a computer security organization and has never changeddits focus, says Casey director of business development. Today, aboutt 80 percent of its business is providing scannin g or managed security servicesfor clients, mostly in the private “We have experienced a growth spurt Thomas says. “We are doinbg better this quarter than we were ayear ago.” Thomad would not provide any revenue or earnings but said that the tough timex have not been a drag on the The company moved into a new 14,000-square-footg office space last year at 9000 Tesoroi Drive in North Central San Antonio.
It also has hirexd three new peoplethis year, including a new sales manager, raisingt the company’s total employment from 55 to 58. A recentr report by , a technologgy and market research company basedin Cambridge, says that the managee security industry is expected to see stronvg growth in 2009 and 2010. This is because when times get hard, confidential data becomed even more valuable and criminals becomew even more desperate to get their handeon it, Hurtado says. The one plac e companies can’t afford to cut back on during hard timezsis security. “The crime element is stil there and itis growing,” he says.
“Whart we can do is help companies evaluate their vulnerabilities and prioritize where they need to spend theirsecurity dollars.” Hurtado says many companies secure themselvea from outside attacks and intrusions but leave themselveds vulnerable to internal attacks, whether due to a disgruntled employee or a carelese mistake. “We encourage companies to embrace the full measuredof protections,” he says.
“It is all about risk The Forrester report goes on to state that proactiver vulnerability management is an essential componen t for informationtechnology (IT) The report recommends firms integratde IT risk management systems into their operationes and implement proactive remediation. , a technologu research firm basedin Stamford, Conn., says today’s IT organizationsd should “develop vulnerability management processes that protect IT environments againsgt external attack and internalo threats.” Hurtado says recommendations such as this from top researcy firms are driving business their way.
He adds that one advantagre Digital Defense has is that its platform was developed in 2000 and has maturedr and grown with the Digital Defense works with clients around the Only about 5 percent ofthe company’ clients are in San
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