Agiliance In the News

	April 2008 SAP, EDS, Microsoft Execs Join Agiliance Board IT-GRC leader adds five luminaries to its board of advisors, highlighting the relevance of IT governance, risk, and compliance. .....
	April 2008 The Push For Better Data Protection Data protection has become an inescapable topic of late for enterprises of all sizes, and with good reason. And the issues facing SMEs are just as complex as those in large enterprises. “SMEs get customers because they are as good, if not better, than the bigger guys,” says Pat Conte, CEO of risk and compliance management provider Agiliance (www.agiliance.com). .....
	April 2008 Mapping IT security to the business and the business to IT Security The need to map security to the business has been an ongoing topic of conversation for quite some time. While that might mean different things to different people, the common denominator is that it requires a change in how IT and security professionals think about and approach security. Regulatory compliance has been a great enabler in forcing this sea change. SOX tied executive-level accountability to IT and compliance spending tied "gaps" in the IT infrastructure to a dollar amount. The need to prioritize what gaps to fix first helped to crystallize the discipline of risk management. According to Forrester, when you combine effective risk and compliance management, what you get is good corporate governance. .....
	March 2008 The Red Hot Pursuit of Consumer Identity Theft And Other Fraudulent Activities The card industry continues to blossom in an economy where consumer spending is robust and the number of transactions are on a sharp upward curve. With such continued volume in transactions come problems - namely identity theft. No matter how hard we try, it seems that identity theft and other forms of wrongdoing, are growing right along with the number of transactions. Legislators on the Federal and state are taking action. .....
	March, 2008 Information Week Interviews Pat Conte, CEO of Agiliance Michael Singer, Information Week News Editor, interviews Patrick J. Conte, CEO of Agiliance, on InfoWeek StartUp City TV. .....
	March 7, 2008 Online Gaming Firm Bets on PCI bwin Interactive Entertainment AG chose a Web-based risk management/PCI compliance solution that integrates with its existing apps. Online gaming firm bwin Interactive Entertainment AG found that the business process piece of deploying its Payment Card Industry (PCI)-compliant solution last year was tougher than the technical part. The $2.2 billion Vienna, Austria-based company, which was one of the first to earn Visa's PCI seal of approval, retooled its online transactions to meet Visa's PCI standards. .....
	February 26, 2008 Phulaxis Acquisition Alters The Compliance Landscape Agiliance, the leading provider of IT governance, risk and compliance (IT-GRC) solutions, has announced the acquisition of Phulaxis, Inc., a privately funded provider of IT and business compliance solutions. .....
	February 11, 2008 Governance software vendor adds automated access controls to its product There's a very satisfying feeling that happens when a company seems to listen to and follow the advice they're given. Whether or not it was in response to something I said, Agiliance - the up-and-coming company to watch in the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) space - has just made some changes to its flagship offering that add a great deal of value to the product. .....
	February 8, 2008 Agiliance buy of Phulaxis adds monitoring, auditing features for SOX compliance The simple fact that there is an IT governance, risk and compliance market, spawning start-up companies like Agiliance, underscores both the growing maturity of IT and IT security and the business and regulatory pressures that are compelling companies to be accountable for their operations.....
	January 28 , 2008 How to Translate IT Risk Management into Competitive Advantage It's not the fact that your company has risk that matters. It's not necessarily even how your company manages risk that matters. What matters is how your company turns risk into opportunity. Patrick Kerans of Agiliance explains how to do that. .....
	January 12 , 2008 Changing Risk: Enter the CRO What you don't know can kill you -- or sink the company. As executives and boards of directors demand an integrated, enterprise wide view of risk, they're turning to chief risk officers (CROs) to provide it. Where should CROs fit inside an organization, and do they have the authority and oversight to really make a difference? Learn how to make a CRO succeed .....
	December 14, 2007 Agiliance collaborates with Wipro for IT GRC Solution US-based Agiliance has partnered with Indian IT firm Wipro Technologies to deliver IT governance, risk and compliance solutions globally to their customers. Under the terms of the agreement, Wipro Technologies will integrate and resell Agiliance's IT governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC) solution......
	December 7, 2007 The Changing Role of the CSO In the last few months I've been hearing more and more from CEOs, CIOs and CSOs about the changing role of the CSO (or CISO, depending on your org chart) in the enterprise. In the past, the CSO has nearly always been a technically minded person who has risen through the IT ranks and then made the jump to the executive ranks. ... The Seesaw CISO...Changing Places But Similar Faces... Rational Survivability- Christofer Hoff's blog.
	December 1, 2007 Startup Of The Week: Agiliance The governance, risk, and compliance company's IT-GRC 3.0 software helps companies quantify and manage risk. Got Risk? Of course you do. Public and private companies are besieged by security threats, PCI data security audits, and government regulations. Agiliance, which recently released the latest version of its governance, risk, and compliance software, helps companies quantify risk and deploy policies and controls to manage that risk. ...
	November 13, 2007 Compliance and Security: Uniting Efforts No doubt your enterprise or institution is governed my multiple compliance regulations. In the early stages of wrestling with compliance requirements, enterprises and institutions scrambled with single-point solutions that usually addressed only the immediate regulatory needs. With experience and a maturing market, single-point solutions now appear counterproductive. ...
	November 12, 2007 Agiliance, Oracle Partner on Risk Assessment Agiliance announced that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork Agiliance, the leading provider of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT-GRC) solutions, today announced that it has joined the Oracle® PartnerNetwork. Through this relationship, Agiliance will integrate its award-winning IT-GRC solution to the Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Applications such as the Oracle E-Business Suite, to automate IT risk assessments and compliance audits.....
	November 12, 2007 Automating security, risk & compliance for your data center Time for a quick side bar from our reference model discussion. Just wanted to make a quick, timely mention for a space that’s is evolving currently called IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management or “IT GRC” (as defined by Gartner, Forrester, EMA, IDC). This is an emerging space that helps enterprises automate their data center and beyond for IT related risks and also helps leverage that automation for reducing the overall cost in proving compliance (which to date has been traditionally been done through lots of manual labor, e.g., consultants).....
	November 9, 2007 Agiliance Aims for Complete Risk Management The company is expanding its IT GRC product to eliminate risk and compliance information silos. Agiliance is releasing a new version of its governance, risk and compliance management product with the aim of delivering an end-to-end IT risk management tool. Agiliance IT-GRC version 3.0, rolled out Nov. 6, includes a number of enhancements designed to enable enterprises to address changes in their risk profile as their underlying IT infrastructure, processes, applications and users change.....
	November 7, 2007 Agiliance Upgrades Compliance Management Agiliance announced the general availability of Agiliance IT-GRC 3.0 Agiliance, the leading provider of IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT-GRC) solutions, today announced the general availability of Agiliance IT-GRC 3.0. By expanding integrated IT risk assessment and management capabilities, and adding enhanced automation and additional integration with third party systems to its flagship product, Agiliance has broken new ground: IT-GRC 3.0 enables organizations to proactively account for changes in their risk profile as their underlying IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and users change. Agiliance IT-GRC was built to eliminate the risk and compliance information silos that result in operational inefficiencies and inadequate risk measurement....
	November 7, 2007 Network World's Security: Identity Management Newsletter Surveying the GRC landscape Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Management is fast becoming the No. 1 topic of conversation in the enterprise identity field. Among the leaders in the space is San Jose’s Agiliance and I had the opportunity last week to chat with their new Vice President of Marketing, Patrick Kerans....
	November, 2007 Embrace This Acronym: IT GRC. It Could Save Banks a Bundle. The financial-services industry, like every other, is awash in acronyms, and one that's been gaining ground lately is GRC. Used to describe the interdependent disciplines of governance, risk and compliance, GRC refers to the people, processes and technology banks invest in to comply with regulations and manage risk as part of effective corporate governance. GRC connects the dots between many of other acronyms-SOX, FFIEC, GLBA, PCI DSS-not to mention every other regulation and mandate that touches the bank.. ...
	October , 2007 October 2007 SF Bay Area Chapter Meeting The next Chapter Meeting will be on Wednesday October 10th. This month, Patrick Kerans will be presenting on “Trends from the trenches: Top Three Business Measures for Successful IT Risk and Compliance Management.” ....
	October 10 , 2007 Agiliance Expands Management Team in Preparation for Next Phase of Market Success Agiliance Inc. announced today the expansion of its executive management team with the appointment of Dev Ghoshal as Vice President of Business Development and Global Client Services, Bob Horn as Vice President of Sales, and Patrick Kerans as Vice President of Marketing....
	October 10 , 2007 Agiliance expands executive team Agiliance has expanded its executive management team. The company appointed Dev Ghoshal as vice president of business development and global client services, Bob Horn as vice president of sales, and Patrick Kerans as vice president of marketing. ...
	October 2007 Protection at All Costs Corporate data must be tightly secured in a compliance-driven world Ask any security officer what keeps him or her up at night, chances are having to deal with the fallout of a data breach will be high on the short list. If you scan headlines over the past year, you can see why—according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, since 2005, more than 165 million records from private companies, government organizations and universities containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches. ...
	October 2, 2007 ETrade Automates Risk Mgt Compliance ETrade Financial selects Agiliance IT-GRC to further streamline risk and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance automation. Agiliance, a leading provider of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT-GRC) solutions, today announced that ETRADE FINANCIAL Corporation has chosen to implement the company’s flagship product, Agiliance IT-GRC. Named one of Dark Reading’s “Top 10 Hot Security Start-ups,” Agiliance is known for its strong policy management and ability to automate the full spectrum of IT processes involved in complying with multiple regulations. With the addition of ETRADE FINANCIAL to its customer roster, Agiliance continues to demonstrate its ability to provide industry leading companies with a competitive advantage in an increasingly transparent world. ...
	September 10 , 2007 Early Vibe: Agiliance Agiliance is a promising early stage company headquartered in San Jose, California. Founded by technical talent with ArcSight heritage, the company is a living example of one of the directions security information management is heading. Agiliance aims to promote security intelligence to where security becomes an integrated management element of the business infrastructure....
	September 1, 2007 Best practices for today's CSO Most executives today have to rely on a combination of fragmented systems and spreadsheets to address critical issues. Having deployed a variety of point solutions, each operating separately, the organization is awash in reports. What these enterprises lack is an overall and consistent view of security, risk and compliance. This results in executives forced to manage in fragments...
	July, 2007 Plugged-in Techies Robert Alexander, EVP for Internet and Enterprise Customer Management at Capital One, will assume the role of CIO and head of ECM. He replaces Gregor Bailar, who is leaving to pursue philanthropic pursuits, according to the company....
	July 9 , 2007 Effective IT Risk and Compliance Management The June 2007 issue of the ISSA Journal has a well-written article by Pravin Kothari, CEO of Agiliance. Kothari addresses several key points for addressing the overlapping challenges of regulation and control, risk management, and cost reduction. These keys are: Capture the appropriate assets Implement a common control framework Automated survey workflow and technical testing Quantify and analyze risk Take appropriate actions to manage risk Provide visibility to support informed decisions
	June 27, 2007 Agiliance Weaves Together Governance, Compliance, and Security Management IT governance involves measuring risk, taking appropriate security measures, and reassessing both risk and security at regular intervals. It's a difficult job made harder by the fact that these processes are typically managed separately. A new solution from a Silicon Valley startup called Agiliance brings them all together...
	June 25, 2007 People in Business Patrick Conte was appointed CEO and president of Agiliance Inc., a San Jose provider of IT governance, risk and compliance products. Founding CEO Pravin Kothari was named chief technology officer. Conte was EVP and general manager of field operations at Teneros.
	June 12 , 2007 Agiliance Names New CEO Agiliance announced the appointment of Patrick Conte as President and Chief Executive Officer Agiliance, a leading provider of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Conte as President and Chief Executive Officer. Conte, a 20-year veteran of the high technology industry has been selected to drive Agiliance's market leadership as it continues to execute on the market opportunity presented by the emerging IT-GRC space. ...
	June 12, 2007 Industry Luminary Patrick Conte Joins Agiliance as President and CEO Agiliance, a leading provider of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Conte as President and Chief Executive Officer...
	June 6, 2007 A Multitude of SIMs All the emerging security info management options may overwhelm IT buyers, but here's how to start sorting them out ...
	June 12, 2007 Patrick Conte new CEO of Agiliance Agiliance Inc., which focuses on IT governance, risk and compliance, on Tuesday named Patrick Conte president and chief executive...
	June 6, 2007 Will Oracle, SAP and Microsoft Rule the Information Security Management Waves? I spend a lot of time in listening mode. Some people may not think I am in listening mode as my mouth is usually always moving; but I am. I have a set of people I use as sounding boards. Some know it and others don’t. ...
	June 2007 Effective IT Risk and Compliance Management Information technology is at the center of three critical business management challenges: regulation and control, risk management, and cost reduction. Successfully meeting these challenges requires IT to manage several interdependent disciplines...
	May 16, 2007 IBM, Symantec Tackle Compliance The march of the compliance management frameworks has begun, and some of the industry's largest vendors are looking to grab the lead....
	May 7, 2007 Governance, Risk Management and Compliance and What it Means to You Get ready for a new buzz phrase to descend upon the IT department: “governance, risk management and compliance,” or GRC. You’re probably already familiar with compliance, especially if your company has to comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA or any number of other government or industry regulations. Now it’s time to understand your role in corporate governance and risk management...
	April 12, 2007 10 Hot Security Startups Combine a dashboard GUI with compliance management and you get something along the lines of Agiliance Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup that launched its first product at the end of last year...
	March 5, 2007 Managing Compliance in a Multi-Regulatory World Federal and state government regulations can be a big problem for today’s organizations. There are more than 100 such regulations in the U.S. alone, and that number continues to grow. These are in addition to industry-specific mandates. They are all designed to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic data from information security breaches. So, what are the consequences if your organization fails to comply? Heavy fines and legal action. In short, it’s serious...
	October 11, 2006 Agiliance Closes $6.5 Million Series B Funding Federal and state government regulations can be a big problem for today’s organizations. There are more than 100 such regulations in the U.S. alone, and that number continues to grow. These are in addition to industry-specific mandates. They are all designed to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic data from information security breaches. So, what are the consequences if your organization fails to comply? Heavy fines and legal action. In short, it’s serious...
	October 10, 2006 Agiliance Raises $6.5M; Ripe Digital Entertainment Grabs $32M The Herring Take: Anything that betters a corporation’s security and/or compliance is surely a good thing, right? According to a Forrester Research report, vendors that focus on a single sub-sector of risk, or only a few compliance standards, do their customers a disservice. From what we can gather, Agiliance’s product seems rather comprehensive by covering, for example: Sarbanes-Oxley 404, HIPAA, GLBA, and FISMA. The compliance marketplace itself is on the move. AMR Research expects corporate spending towards compliance initiatives to reach $28 billion by 2007.

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Agiliance In the News

ETrade Financial selects Agiliance IT-GRC to further streamline risk and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance automation.

Agiliance Raises $6.5M; Ripe Digital Entertainment Grabs $32M