AMERICAN SYSTEMS Launches Enterprise Security Practice

Market Wire, March, 2008

AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a government and commercial IT solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., today announced the launch of its Enterprise Security Practice, a converged security practice leveraging AMERICAN SYSTEMS' physical, logical and identity credentialing expertise for the benefit of federal and commercial customers alike.

"The Enterprise Security Practice draws from AMERICAN SYSTEMS' collective security capabilities to better respond to customers' converged security needs," said William C. Hoover, president and CEO, AMERICAN SYSTEMS. "We created the practice to ensure that managers responsible for physical and information security have the tools they need to go beyond mere security policy and audit compliance toward a more holistic and centralized security management system."

For federal security managers, AMERICAN SYSTEMS has developed capabilities and solutions based on the net-centric vision supporting U.S.'s National Defense Strategy. This strategy has prompted federal agencies to rely upon an evolving "network of networks" to support personnel with fast, flexible, and secure worldwide access to the information needed for mission success. For the commercial sector, the Enterprise Security Practice can help ensure that security managers have the tools they need to go beyond mere policy and audit compliance toward a more centralized security management system.

As security has increasingly become an imperative, customers now look to AMERICAN SYSTEMS for seamless and comprehensive solutions that simplify security management by allowing them to leverage and act on security data in servers, applications and databases from a central point. In so doing, the new practice will give agencies and companies an integrated security framework to tackle physical, logical and identity management challenges in real time from virtually any security environment they choose. Specifically, the new practice will deliver broad advisory and deployment capabilities in:

--  Security program development, including needs assessments, policy and
    governance, control design and initiative planning;
--  Logical controls, including controls assessment and design, user
    provisioning/de-provisioning, Single Sign-on (SSO), Entitlements/Roles
    management and multi-factor authentication;
--  Physical controls, including access control, implementation, operation
    and maintenance;
--  Identity credentialing, including token selection, federated identity
    management planning, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment; and
--  Compliance and monitoring, including information assurance, threat
    management, security monitoring and audit, and Continuity of Operations
    Planning (COOP).
    

For more information, please contact Larry Mendenhall at 703-968-5280.

About AMERICAN SYSTEMS

Founded in 1975, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States, with approximately 1,500 employees nationwide. Based in the Washington, DC, suburb of Chantilly, VA, the company provides systems engineering, technical and managed services to government and enterprise customers. AMERICAN SYSTEMS was named "Contractor of the Year" at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards in October 2007. For more information, please visit: www.AmericanSystems.com .

Contact: Cory Porter Sage Communications (for AMERICAN SYSTEMS) 703.584.5646 coryp@aboutsage.com