WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink,
Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently signed an agreement authorizing it to
sell King & Union's Avalon, a cyber analysis collaboration
platform and service, to the company's commercial and government
clients.
King & Union's Avalon platform gives customers better
situational awareness and a contextual picture of the cyber threat
environment via dynamic graphing and threat visualization. It
removes information sharing barriers, empowers threat analysts to
collaborate within and across teams, and provides unique insights
and intelligence with automated threat enrichment services using
proprietary and sensitive data sources.
"CenturyLink is excited to be King & Union's first reseller
and go-to-market partner for its cyber analysis collaboration
platform," said Erich Sanchack,
CenturyLink senior vice president and general manager, federal
solutions. "We're committed to the nation's cybersecurity mission
and to providing customers with industry-leading cybersecurity
measures and analysis that improve an organization's cyber risk
posture. Avalon complements CenturyLink's managed security services
offerings, including CenturyLink's Enhanced Cybersecurity Services
offering authorized by the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security."
"King & Union is thrilled to be working with CenturyLink, an
established leader in public-private cyber information sharing
efforts and an innovative provider of security services," said King
& Union President John
Cassidy.
Avalon helps build an interactive community of cyber analysts.
It helps users rapidly collaborate with trusted peers on cyber
investigations and findings, provides unique insights, and sets up
fast action events for remediation. It provides one workspace for
threat hunters to work through their analysis together, while
interacting with each other and data in near real time, thus
improving collaboration among commercial and government
cybersecurity operation teams.
Avalon's cyber analysis collaboration platform also allows teams
to collaborate on investigations and findings with each other
without sharing sensitive and classified threat information, which
is a big benefit to information sharing and analysis organizations
and their respective members.
By supplying cybersecurity, cloud, managed hosting and IT
services over its carrier-class network, CenturyLink provides
government agencies with the security and reliability they need to
carry out their important missions.
CenturyLink's Managed Security Services Suite, available either
as a stand-alone service or as an add-on for customers buying
hosting, networking, cloud and colocation services, enables
organizations to improve their security posture and respond more
efficiently to cyber attacks.
CenturyLink is currently ranked No. 35 on Washington
Technology's 2017 Top 100 list of federal government IT
contractors.
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global
communications and IT services company focused on connecting its
customers to the power of the digital world. CenturyLink offers
network and data systems management, big data analytics, managed
security services, hosting, cloud, and IT consulting services. The
company provides broadband, voice, video, advanced data and managed
network services over a robust 265,000-route-mile U.S. fiber
network and a 360,000-route-mile international transport network.
Visit CenturyLink for more information.
About King & Union
King & Union is a cybersecurity company based in Alexandria, Va., that has built and designed
Avalon, a cyber analysis collaboration platform. Visit King
& Union at kingandunion.com or email info@kingandunion.com for
more information.
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