Xacta: IT and Cyber Risk Management Platform

Additional Info

CompanyTelos Corporation
Websitehttp://www.telos.com
Company size (employees)500 to 999
Headquarters RegionNorth America
Type of solutionHybrid

Overview

Xacta is an IT and cyber risk platform solution designed for corporations to meet the complex challenges of managing IT and cyber risk with intelligent workflow, automated control selection and assessment, and continuous compliance monitoring. Xacta enables continuous management of cyber risk and security compliance initiatives through automation. It supports a wide range of frameworks and regulatory content across all industries and offers no-code customization options to fit your organization’s needs.

The Xacta suite comprises two product offerings – Xacta 360 and Xacta.io – that are combined to maximize automation and scalability. Xacta 360 for cloud saves customers as much as 90% of compliance time and effort. Xacta.io provides cyber risk and compliance analytics while enabling streaming and persistent data sources for vast and accessible information.

Xacta is regarded as the next generation of cyber risk management. Xacta administers the critical elements of more than 100 leading regulations and policies for IT security compliance in government and commercial markets. Today, it is used by members of the U.S. Intelligence Community to automate the assessment and authorization (A&A) of more than 20,000 systems.

Furthermore, Xacta supports cloud security compliance management requirements for many leading SaaS solutions and vendors, such as Salesforce, Rackspace, and CloudCheckr. Xacta serves many large, highly regulated commercial organizations that are required to implement complex security risk and compliance management workflows and control frameworks.

Key Capabilities / Features

The Xacta suite – Xacta 360 and Xacta.io – is the ultimate tool for cyber risk management.


Xacta 360's capabilities provide the key to continuous compliance auditing. It enables risk management and security compliance for cloud-based, on-premises, and hybrid systems. The platform automates processes for assessment and authorization, remediation, and ongoing compliance. Xacta 360 streamlines security compliance of workloads in commercial clouds and automates labor-intensive cyber risk and compliance management functions. This solution reduces audit fatigue with control mapping and is optimized for cloud security assessments and deployments.


Xacta.io's functionality enables continuous compliance by delivering security data at the speed and scale required for threat-informed risk management. It standardizes your security approach and methodology by using centralized repositories of mappings to controls. With Xacta.io, users can aggregate and analyze asset and vulnerability data at scale. Overall, the platform reduces the time needed to analyze and confirm findings across hundreds of thousands of assets and increases analysts' effectiveness in understanding extensive security results.


How we are different

● Telos developed Xacta in 2000, and it was one of the few companies that anticipated the need to manage security risk and compliance at the time.
● Xacta is unique in that it has grown with the industry, always seeking customer feedback and evolving with the unique needs of Telos’ customers as regulations have changed.
● With the constant innovation that the Xacta team has implemented, the offering can help get systems to compliance up to 90% faster.


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