VANCOUVER, BC – February 27, 2008 – Wurldtech Security Technologies launched the Achilles Industrial Cyber-Security Health Check program. The Achilles Health Check is designed to provide a quick assessment of current cyber-security readiness according to industry leading methodology and recommended practices in addition to providing a blueprint for future security implementations. The Achilles Health Check includes a core set of tests designed to identify actual cyber risk profiles unique to each system. The key component of the Achilles Health Check is its ability to help establish priorities for a targeted security program based on actual risk exposures, empowering operators with a more meaningful method to plan industrial security strategies and programs.
The Achilles Health Check encompasses the following phases:
- Preliminary Consultation
- Onsite Vulnerability Testing and Evaluation
- Reporting - Recommendations and Next Steps Achilles Health Check Partner ProgramAs part of the Achilles Health Check, Wurldtech is also rolling out a partner program and is actively working with industrial security service providers and consultants to provide this essential service.
Various partnership levels and pricing models are available.
"Our mission is to provide operators with the most innovative industrial cyber-security solutions in the market and advocate security and safety to all industrial organizations,” stated Tyler Williams, President and CEO of Wurldtech Security Technologies, Inc.
“Now, through Achilles Health Check, we further demonstrate our leadership by introducing the industry’s most practical, service-oriented evaluation service.
Operators are now empowered to make better informed decisions based on their unique security needs and requirements.”
Added Williams, “Extending this capability to service partners and consultants as a value-add to their existing portfolio of solutions offerings only helps to further our collective goals of improving industrial and infrastructure security.”
About Wurldtech Security Technologies, Inc.Wurldtech Security Technologies, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is a leading provider of cyber-security solutions to vendors and operators of SCADA, process-control and mission critical systems worldwide.
Wurldtech has a proven track record in recognizing and responding to cyber-security threats; developed the industry’s first available controller certification program; and has certified the largest number of products from global suppliers of the systems used in today’s critical infrastructures.
Wurldtech is committed to delivering breakthrough products and services that help protect global critical infrastructure and address the security needs of major industrial organizations and government agencies worldwide.
