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Agiliance, Sunnyvale, CA - Company

Gold Stevie Award Winner 2012, Click to Enter The 2014 American Business Awards

Company:Agiliance, Sunnyvale, CA
Company Division/Group:Agiliance Inc.
Company Description:Agiliance is the leading independent provider of integrated solutions for Operational and Security Risk Intelligence. Agiliance is automating how Global 2000 companies and government agencies continuously monitor big data for risks across financial, operations, and IT domains to increase operational efficiency and orchestrate incident, threat, and vulnerability actions in real time.
Nomination Category:Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category:Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year - Up to 100 Employees

Nomination Title: Agiliance

Tell the story about what this nominated organization has achieved since January 1 2014 (up to 650 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms.

Organizations today operate in a dynamically changing risk ecosystem characterized by cyber-attacks, insider threats, monetary fraud, and data breaches. At the same time, mushrooming government regulations, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, call into question antiquated, assessment-based risk and governance practices that are primarily based on managerial opinion. This creates an imperative for organizations to strategically align business objectives with data-driven analysis of risks from business units, suppliers, as well as cloud and datacenter operations and to optimize risk intelligence, prioritization, remediation, and audit reporting. To address this complex, interlocking problem, organizations require a context-aware, scalable big data risk management solution that makes risk visible, measurable, and actionable across financial, operational, and security domains.

Agiliance is re-shaping the industry by automating risk management on an enterprise scale. The company has disrupted the established practice of performing risk management as continuous consulting and replaced it with continuous, automated software-based monitoring. Known as the "Big Data Risk Company", providing integrated solutions for Operational and Security Risk programs, the company helps organizations use their knowledge of risk to optimize business investments and performance.

As news of more data breaches and third-party originated cyber-attacks make the news (i.e., Target, eBay, Anthem, Sony Pictures Entertainment), businesses and regulators alike are sharpening their focus on how to report on and mitigate these risks. Despite increased investments in preventive security measures, many organizations are losing the war against cyber criminals. Board members are demanding quantitative risk data that spans all business operations, while business units need to neutralize the impact of cyber-attacks.

In this context, the company's RiskVision software platform provides the essential building blocks to visualize, measure, and action cyber security operational risk intelligence in real time. RiskVision's patented technology aggregates and correlates live data from over 70 leading business, security, IT, and identity software products to produce actionable intelligence and metrics understood by business users, security professionals, and boards alike.

The RiskVision platform enables Global 2000 companies and government agencies to manage enterprise risk by making it visible, actionable, and measurable across business units, IT operations, and security management in near real time. Agiliance unifies security and compliance in one integrated enterprise platform that enables companies to move from a reactive, threat-driven approach to a proactive, risk-aware posture. Since its inception, Agiliance has pioneered advancements in technology to help customers simplify compliance complexities and evolve risk management practices, while cutting costs and improving productivity.

Agiliance has pioneered a new market and established a software segment called Big Data Risk Management. Currently, organizations must perform continuous (security) monitoring and frequent data assessments with disconnected, best-of-breed tools. Agiliance has developed an integrated and scalable Managed Risk-as-a-Service that integrates security data discovery, analytics, and risk prioritization on an enterprise scale - which vendors in configuration management, vulnerability assessment, and event management are trying to copy.

Agiliance's innovation in the market has been validated and affirmed by the company’s winning bell-weather customers in multi-million dollar deals against many public and private competitors. For example, RiskVision was selected over its competition by two global financial services firms funding mid-seven-figure transformation projects for line of business, third-party, and application risks. Proof of concepts (POCs) showed RiskVision's modern architecture was 10 to 25 times better in scalability and sustainability, with an ROI and solution success rate deemed best-in-class. In the public sector, Agiliance has become the de-facto standard for "continuous diagnostics and mitigation", which is propagated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Agiliance has achieved record business recognition and industry accolades including the Security Products Magazine's 2014 Govies Platinum Award, 2014 Cyber Defense Magazine Most Innovative InfoSec Award, Deloitte 2014 Technology Fast 500 Honoree, Government Security News 2014 Homeland Security Award, 2014 International Business Awards Stevie Winner, 2014 American Business Awards Stevie Winner, and 5-Star Rating in 2014 SC Magazine's Risk and Policy Management Group Test.

In bullet-list form, briefly summarize up to ten (10) of the chief accomplishments of this organization since the beginning of 2014 (up to 150 words).
- Unparalleled business recognition by earning 32 industry accolades
- Exception vertical scale: 3 of the 8 largest North American financial services outsourcers; 4 of the 12 largest European diversified financial services organizations; 3 of the 5 largest North American nuclear energy utilities; 2 of the 3 largest global life sciences firms; and 8 of the 14 largest US government civilian agencies
- 251 percent growth in Q3 2014 over H1 2014
- 176 percent year-over-year growth
- 985% growth in secure cloud services
- World's biggest production deployment of continuous monitoring and mitigation use cases with 1.4 million assets under management and close to 300 million daily control checks
- World's largest production deployment of enterprise-wide vendor risk management with more than 250,000 vendor services under management

Of the following types of innovation, which ONE do you want the judges to most appreciate about your organization's story of achievement since the beginning of 2014?

Technical Innovation