ClearPoint Metrics Earns FS-ISAC Affiliate Membership

ClearPoint Metrics Strengthens Commitment to the Financial Services Industry; Silver Strategic Sponsorship Welcomed by FS-ISAC CHELMSFORD, Mass., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearPoint Metrics, a leaderin performance management and metric solutions, today announced it has beenawarded an Affiliate Membership to the Financial Services InformationSharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). The FS-ISAC, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Treasury andthe Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC), serves toenhance the ability of the financial services sector to prepare for andrespond to cyber and physical threats, vulnerabilities and incidents, andacts as the primary communications channel for the sector. As amember-owned organization, FS- ISAC looks to include and accept only thosecompanies that are leading the charge for secure data in the financialservices sector. FS-ISAC's new Silver Strategic Sponsorship from ClearPoint Metrics,along with its existing Strategic Sponsorships from, Ernst & Young,VeriSign and Voltage Security, all support and enhance the organization'swork to make the financial services sector stronger and safer. "We recognize and deeply appreciate the commitment ClearPoint Metricshas made today by becoming a Strategic Sponsor and Affiliate Member of theFS- ISAC. Given our information sharing mandate, our members look toFS-ISAC to bring them not only threat and incident updates but alsoinnovations in information security such as those offered by ClearPoint,"said Bill Nelson, FS-ISAC CEO and President. "ClearPoint's solutions laythe foundation for driving positive change and fostering constantimprovement in processes that mitigate risk, improve security and reduceunnecessary costs which are critical outcomes for our general members." "Our involvement with FS-ISAC is a natural extension of our commitmentto our growing user base in the financial services industry. Our AffiliateMembership enables us to have a consistent dialogue with the thoughtleaders in this sector leading to us better understand the requirements forperformance metrics that support their IT and information securitygovernance, compliance and risk initiatives," said Jim Acquaviva, CEO ofClearPoint Metrics. "We plan to participate actively in the FS-ISAC eventsand contribute to the continual education and exchange of information thatleads to greater preparedness by the community. In particular, the upcomingroundtable series co-sponsored by FS-ISAC and ClearPoint provides an idealforum for exchange of ideas on how to assess an organizations preparednessand resiliency." ClearPoint Metrics' Security Performance Manager and relatedsubscription offerings equip global 2000 companies in the banking,insurance, brokerage and credit cards industries to reliably measure,monitor and communicate the state, business impact and effectiveness oftheir IT governance, risk and compliance initiatives. Just as the FS-ISACprovides security alerts to its members for immediate information sharingto maximize each organization's security posture, ClearPoint Metricsprovides CIOs and CISOs with the hard facts and data from their disparateinfrastructure systems to make better informed decisions on informationsecurity risk management. Affiliate Membership provides ClearPoint Metricsaccess to much of the same information as financial institution members,expanding ClearPoint Metrics' ability to understand and incorporate bothinternal and external risk mitigation information for its customers. About FS-ISAC Launched in 1999, FS-ISAC was established by the financial servicessector in response to 1998's Presidential Directive 63. That directive --later updated by 2003's Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 --mandated that the public and private sectors share information aboutphysical and cyber security threats and vulnerabilities to help protect theU.S. critical infrastructure. Constantly gathering reliable and timelyinformation from financial services providers, commercial security firms,federal, state and local government agencies, law enforcement and othertrusted resources, the FS-ISAC is now uniquely positioned to quicklydisseminate physical and cyber threat alerts and other critical informationto your organization. This information includes analysis and recommendedsolutions from leading industry experts. http://www.fsisac.com. About ClearPoint Metrics ClearPoint Metrics solutions enable IT and Security executives andtheir teams to consistently and reliably measure, monitor and communicatethe state, business impact and effectiveness of their IT governance, riskand compliance initiatives. As both regulatory and best practice frameworksmandate the use of metrics, ClearPoint delivers both the hard facts anddata that evidence the existence and efficacy of internal controls and theexecutive views and scorecards that enable evaluation of performance andalignment with business objectives. CIOs and CISOs of leading Global 2000companies rely on ClearPoint Metrics software and best practice know-how toquickly and cost effectively implement a successful metrics initiativesupporting their strategic imperatives and establishing a foundation forconstant improvement in safeguarding their organization's informationassets. http://www.clearpointmetrics.com.