The Ultimate Solution is Tripwire. Tripwire's enterprise-strength change auditing solutions lower the risk of regulatory violations, business disruptions, security breaches, and loss of customer confidence. Used by over 5,000 customers, Tripwire helps leading organizations worldwide gain control over IT.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly known as HP, is one of the world's largest information technology corporations. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States, it has a global presence in the fields of computing, printing, and digital imaging, and also sells software and services.

IP Services is a founding sponsor of the IT Process Institute (ITPI). The ITPI is an independent research and membership organization that is dedicated to working with leading IT organizations to advance the science of IT management. The ITPI has created a unique three-part methodology designed to identify procedures and controls that improve the performance of IT organizations, including research, benchmarking, and development of prescriptive guideance.

Microsoft Corporation is an international computer technology corporation with 2005 global annual sales of close to $40 billion USD and about 64,000 employees in 85 countries and regions which develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, its most popular products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near ubiquity in the desktop computer market. Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets home entertainment products, such as the Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV.

 

Neumann Management Group, Inc. (NMG) is a rapidly growing full service consulting firm in the Northwest. Since 1999, NMG has been helping Manufacturing and Service clients to reduce costs, implement complex initiatives, manage their organizations, and develop strategies to increase sales and improve profitability. If you require turn around knowledge during difficult times or project management experience during a strong growth phase, NMG has the resources to help you succeed.

Qwest is a leading provider of voice, video and data services across America and the world. For more than a century, homes and businesses have relied on our dependable dial tone connection. We value the strength and vitality we help bring to the communities where we live, work and play-through tens of thousands of volunteer hours donated by employees and retirees, our foundation contributions and numerous other avenues. In communications and community, our goal is to lead.

SANS is the most trusted and by far the largest source for information security training and certification in the world. It also develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost, the largest collection of research documents about various aspects of information security, and it operates the Internet's early warning system - Internet Storm Center.  The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Its programs now reach more than 165,000 security professionals, auditors, system administrators, network administrators, chief information security officers, and CIOs who share the lessons they are learning and jointly find solutions to the challenges they face. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners in government agencies, corporations, and universities around the world who invest hundreds of hours each year in research and teaching to help the entire information security community.

Sprint Nextel Corporation is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, with a combined market capitalization of $77.1 Billion as of early 2006. It operates the third largest wireless network in the U.S. based on total wireless customers—behind Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless—with 49.6 million subscribers, under both the Sprint PCS and Nextel brands. It also operates a landline and long distance business, as well as several units that provide businesses and governments with communications services. The new company, formerly known as Sprint Corporation, was created from the $35 billion purchase of NEXTEL Communications by Sprint, though the entire deal was billed as a merger of equals. Both internally and externally, Sprint is an acceptable short name for the company.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a vendor of computers, computer components, software, and information-technology services.  Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC and AMD's Opteron processors, the Solaris operating system, the NFS network file system, and the Java platform. From June 2005, Sun also produces laptops called Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation. The pioneering OpenLook (Sun's own graphical user interface) was very stable but would now be considered minimalistic. A wide choice of windowing systems are now offered, including Open source contributions.