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It's been a banner year for the Whitestone Group, according to John Clark, CEO of the facility security, asset/force protection and investigations firm.  On July 1, the FAA signed a national contract with the company. NASA signed another only a few days before the GSN Awards Dinner.  Although the company’s first national security contract was with the Cirque de Soleil, it became clear to Clark early on that Whitestone’s most important mission was to going to be protecting U.S. Government facilities and infrastructure.

Jeff Horne explains that Denver, CO-based Accuvant , Inc has two different businesses – the Value Added Reseller (VAR) side, in which it is one of the largest resellers in the country, and the Accuvant Lab side, which provides research in IT Security and on risk and compliance management, vulnerability analysis and malware solutions. It does technical due diligence with the hardware and software it grabs from the VAR side of the business, evaluating products and incorporating them into new solutions, acting as a product agnostic, objective advisor.

Company CEO Mike Potts talked with GSN on November 14th shortly after Lancope, Inc was awarded the Winner’s Trophy for its StealthWatch product in the IT category of “Best Network Security/Enterprise Firewall”.  According to Mr. Potts, StealthWatch focuses on the cyber security crime level, which is at an all-time high in government and enterprise networks. For the last ten years, he points out, companies and government agencies have surrounded networks with perimeter defense systems, but today it’s not a question of whether your network is going to be compromised, but when.

Ann Pickren discusses MIR3’s Mass Notification System that was awarded a Winner’s Trophy in GSN’s 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program. She explains that the company is focused totally on its robust mass notification platform which can reach people no matter what device they are using or where they are located. MIR3 focuses heavily on federal, state and local government agencies, counting NASA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Air Force and Army among its clients.