Press Releases & Blog Posts
It’s that time of year when worker productivity goes out the window, as the frenzy of March Madness captivates workplaces nationwide. Reflecting on last season’s model, the model performed admirably during the regular season, accurately predicting outcomes about 72% of the time…
Data privacy is a critical issue in today’s digital age. The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDRP) sets a new standard for data protection by giving individuals control over their personal information. In the US, there is a growing trend towards a rights-based approach, like GDPR, that says individuals effectively own their personal information and have the legal right to decide how it is used…
The Texas Department of Information Resources (TX-DIR) provides an efficient platform to deliver emerging technology solutions to state and local government entities. However, it is not only agencies within the state of Texas that can leverage this contract vehicle…
As we close the door on another year and step into 2023, we give some thought to what technological advancements and trends will be on the minds of public sector agencies over the next 12 months…
Our Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) offering was developed in response to Executive Order 14028 to help Federal agencies meet the requirements and deadlines listed in the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) Memo 22-18…
Hyperautomation is a game-changing technology for government agencies looking to increase efficiency and effectiveness in their operations. By using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, government agencies can automate complex tasks and processes, allowing them to better serve the needs of their constituents…
LEESBURG, Va., December 6, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Quokka, formally known as Kryptowire, a leader in mobile application vetting, testing, and cybersecurity, has named Vertosoft as a new Public Sector Distributor. With this announcement, Quokka will now have access to Vertosoft’s vast network of state, local, and federal contracts and public sector partners.
Trust, security, and cost are some of the most common pain points in cloud marketing, but luckily these can all be overcome…
LEESBURG, Va., November 1, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Kiteworks, which delivers data privacy and compliance for sensitive content communications through its Private Content Network, has named Vertosoft as a new public sector distributor. With this new announcement, Kiteworks will begin leveraging Vertosoft’s public sector eco-system of value-added re-sellers (VARs), solutions providers, and systems integrators to grow its Public Sector business.
In March of 2017, CVE-2017-5638 was publicly announced which disclosed a vulnerability in the Apache Struts framework. Approximately 2 months later Equifax was breached by hackers and over 200,000 credit cards were stolen. More recently, Log4Shell was discovered in the popular and widespread open-source library Log4j.
LEESBURG, Va., October 20, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Vertosoft announced today that it has been named as a new distributor for GrammaTech, Inc., a leading provider of application security testing products and software research services.
Vertosoft, ranked #3 in the Washington Business Journal for the fastest growing companies in Greater D.C., is a government technology solutions provider headquartered at 1602 Village Market Blvd in Leesburg, VA. Represented by Edward Saa and Timothy Jacobs, Vertosoft is moving and tripling their headquarters offices to 14,000 SF to accommodate their growing company.
LEESBURG, Va., September 6, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Vertosoft and Microblink have announced a new partnership, where Vertosoft will act as a distributor for Microblink’s identity solutions for the U.S. Public Sector.
With Microblink’s AI-powered software, the U.S. Public Sector and its federal, state, and local network of consumers and partners will fast-track their digital transformation while giving citizens and government workers an easy way to complete and validate once-complicated processes.
LEAWOOD, Kan., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Torch.AI, pioneers of data infrastructure AI, announced today a partnership with Vertosoft to accelerate the adoption of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructure software capabilities across the U.S. Government.
The US Federal Government’s fiscal year runs from October 1st through September 30th and has an estimated IT budget of over 95 billion dollars. This fiscal year the government operated under a series of short-term continuing resolutions for almost the first half of the year.
Many of the companies we work with, who have not done business with government agencies, sometimes have questions regarding the differences between an RFI, Sources Sought Notice, RFP, and RFQ. This article is intended to provide an overview of each instrument and what it means for a company wanting to do business with the government.
LEESBURG, Va., July 6, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Today, Vertosoft announced a new partnership with Anglepoint Inc., an industry leader in Software Asset Management (SAM) Services. Through this partnership, Vertosoft will assist Anglepoint in expanding into the public sector vertical.
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) conducted two separate pilots to test the capability of two machine learning platforms to identify and address unmatched transactions and other accounting errors in the Department of Defense’s financial management enterprise.
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) conducted two separate pilots to test the capability of two machine learning platforms to identify and address unmatched transactions and other accounting errors in the Department of Defense’s financial management enterprise.
Over the last several months, Zimperium has been working closely with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on a mobile device security project.
Much to the chagrin of companies across America, the NCAA Basketball Tournament that we call March Madness is upon us. WalletHub estimates that corporations will lose $13.8B due to unproductive workers, and around $10B will be wagered during the tournament. People have been listening to pundits, pouring over data, and looking for anything that might give them an edge in filling out a winning bracket for their office bracket pool, or give them family bragging rights until next year’s tournament, or win big on a wager.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—February 23, 2022—Devo Technology, the cloud-native logging and security analytics company, today announced the company has been designated as Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s (FedRAMP) “In-Process.” Devo expects to reach full authorization in the fall of 2022.
Vertosoft announced a new partnership on Friday with Udacity, a company that is redefining the meaning of workplace development. With this new partnership Vertosoft will distribute Udacity’s talent transformation suite and digital competency platform to its federal network and highlight how the platform alleviates talent gaps within agencies.
As the government moves towards point-based acquisition, bidders and contract holders are being more commonly evaluated on major categories such as quality and security. Small and new businesses entering the public sector space will be required to put more attention and effort around their operational standards and security protocols.
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SpyCloud, the leader in account takeover and fraud prevention, announced today the launch of their new product, SpyCloud Identity Risk Engine, a transformative API-delivered solution that provides actionable, predictive risk assessments for e-commerce and financial service customers. The assessments consist of a risk score supported by key risk indicators and reason codes, resulting from real-time analysis of SpyCloud’s unmatched collection of recaptured data from breaches, malware infections, and other underground sources.
Vertosoft LLC, a company focused on providing emerging technology to government agencies, announced today that the company has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system.
Last Friday, Vertosoft employees took time out of their day to give back to the Loudoun community by volunteering with the Salvation Army. A group of employees packaged food and passed them out to members of the community. It was a great day of team bonding and supporting our community.
Lt Col Ben Koch has over fifteen years in the United States Air Force (USAF) Financial Management career field and over ten years in the defense contractor arena. He has deployed overseas three times, was a Comptroller Commander, has worked as a contractor supporting tier-1 prime contractors, and supported the government as a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contractor.
Week 3 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month focuses on Cybersecurity Career Awareness to encourage individuals to explore a career in cybersecurity whether you are an experienced professional seeking a career change or a student looking to start your career.
Throughout September and October, scores of fishermen converge on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Central Idaho. Their goal? To catch a Steelhead, which are large ocean-going rainbow trout. For 33 straight years, my father made this trip, and on occasion, I was privileged to tag along with hopes of landing ‘the big one.’
At Vertosoft we are participating in Cybersecurity Awareness Month to lend another voice to help raise awareness about how important good cyber hygiene is for individuals and organizations. For the past 17 years, IBM has commissioned the “Cost of Data Breach Report” study by the Ponemon Institute. In this year’s report, the Ponemon study noted that the costs related to a data breach rose from USD 3.86 million to USD 4.24 million, the highest average total cost in the 17-year history of this report. The most common initial attack vector which accounted for 20% of the breaches was focused on compromised credentials.
Austin, TX – Sept. 30, 2021 – SpyCloud, the leader in account takeover (ATO) prevention, today announced that it has been named the winner of the “Overall Threat Detection Solution of the Year” award in the fifth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. The awards program is conducted by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global information security market today.
Vertosoft announced on Thursday that the company has been named the new Government Distributor for Harness. Harness’ modern software delivery platform will now be available to Federal, state, and local governments through Vertosoft’s vast Partner network and robust Government Procurement Vehicles.
When Jay Colavita founded Vertosoft back in 2016, he had a distinct vision in mind—accelerate the adoption of technology in the government market. Having worked with large government software distributors and solution providers for over 20 years, he realized that emerging technology companies are constantly battling against significant barriers to penetrate the government market.
Leesburg, VA – August 10, 2021 – Vertosoft has been awarded a USAF 2nd Generation Information Technology (2GIT) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) from General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)as a CTA team member of Worldwide Technology. The goal of this BPA is to further reduce the administrative costs of acquiring COTS software from Vertosoft’s GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) GS-35F-688GA.
The US Federal Government’s fiscal year runs from October 1st through September 30th and has an estimated IT budget of close to 90 billion dollars. A significant portion of the budget is spent in the last few months of the year. The planning for this spending begins in early summer when programs start reporting to agency leadership what funds they are not going to be able to use by the end of the fiscal year.
PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digital.ai, the leading AI-driven DevOps value stream delivery and management platform, today announced it is the first company to achieve Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) “In Process” status for an Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) tool. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, this achievement will soon enable government agencies to use a secure, cloud-hosted version of the company’s industry-leading Digital.ai Agility solution to successfully scale agile practices beyond individual teams to an entire agency, greatly aiding efforts to transition or migrate from legacy environments to the cloud.
Vertosoft, as a small business partner and authorized GSA reseller of Workiva Inc.’s (NYSE:WK) cloud platform, is one of three awardees of a $10 million Audit Software and Technical Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Office (DOJ) of the Inspector General (OIG).
Vertosoft LLC has named Hannah Xiu, former immixGroup Head of Finance, as the chief financial officer at Vertosoft LLC. Hannah brings over a decade of experience supporting public sector clients across the government acquisition lifecycle. Hannah played a key role during immixGroup’s acquisition by Arrow Electronics, aligning immixGroup’s financial standards to those of a publicly-traded company.
DataRobot announced on Thursday its DataRobot’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Health Incubator, a new initiative that encourages entrepreneurs, companies, institutions, colleges and universities and non-profits to develop and deploy novel solutions for the health and healthcare market.
Leesburg, VA – May 13, 2021 – Vertosoft, the company driving emerging technology growth for the government, announced a new partnership with SpyCloud, the leader in cyber fraud prevention, to protect customers of government digital services from identity theft and other cybercrimes.
Automating tasks has long been a goal of large workforces, and none is larger than the Department of Defense. With financial management systems that process a more than $700 billion budget annually, getting a helping (digital) hand can reduce wasted labor hours and costly mistakes.
LEESBURG, Va., April 22, 2021 (Newswire.com) – Vertosoft LLC has been recognized as an honoree of the 2021 Greater Washington Area Best Places To Work awards program presented by the Washington Business Journal.
Vertosoft announced Wednesday a partnership with Digital.ai to sell, market and distribute the Digital.ai platform to the U.S. government. Digital.ai will combine software orchestration and agile planning with application quality, security and AI/ML in an integrated platform that enables agencies to transform their digital initiatives and drive outcomes.
CHICAGO, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Keeper Security, provider of the top-rated and industry-leading cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats, today announced that it has partnered with Vertosoft.
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Inkscreen, experts in secure content capture for government and enterprise customers, announced today that the company has signed a strategic reseller agreement with Vertosoft, a leading supplier of innovative technologies and services to the United States government.
To better protect mobile devices that warfighters use, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is readying a mobile threat application that analyzes for problems on Defense Department-issued devices and shares findings in the cloud.
LEESBURG, Va., March 8, 2021 (Newswire.com) – Immersive Labs named Vertosoft as its new public sector distributor for their human cyber readiness platform. Vertosoft is a fast-growing software distributor whose mission is bringing emerging tech to the government. This new partnership will allow Federal, State, and Local government bodies to have access to Immersive Labs’ valuable cybersecurity workforce skills training.
Vertosoft, one of the leading emerging technology distributors for the U.S. government, today announced an agreement with Automation Anywhere, Inc., a global leader in intelligent automation and robotic process automation (RPA). Under this new relationship Vertosoft, will now be one of the select companies authorized to distribute Automation Anywhere solutions in support of the U.S. Federal, State, and Local Governments.
Vertosoft, a company focused on driving emerging technology growth in the government, announced today that their partner Zimperium has been named an approved vendor under the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70. Zimperium is a global leader in mobile device and app security, offering the only real-time, on-device, machine learning-based protection against Android, iOS, and Chromebooks threats.
On more than one occasion, my wife has indicated that she would love to have a ‘Rosey to help out around the house.’ The idea of Rosey comes from the animated cartoon called ‘The Jetsons’ which originally aired in 1962. Rosey is robot that does the housekeeping and other repetitive tasks around the Jetson’s Skypad Apartment, allowing the family to focus on more important and meaningful activities.
Does this sound familiar?
Software Product Manager: “We have this awesome platform that we need to start selling.”
Software Sales Rep: “What does it do?”
Vertosoft, the company driving emerging technology growth in government, announced today a partnership with D3 Security, a leader in advanced Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) technology. Through the partnership with Vertosoft, D3 Security has been named an approved vendor under the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
Vertosoft and DataRobot have been awarded an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to support the Army’s Office of Financial Operations and Information and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s (OSD) Comptroller to resolve financial and accounting errors without human intervention.
As we come to the end of Cybersecurity Awareness month, I wanted to call attention to the impending Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements and what the potential implications are for commercial off the shelf (COTS) software companies.
Why are government purchasing thresholds important? How can these purchasing thresholds as defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) be leveraged to inform your sales strategy as we approach the end of the federal fiscal year? Let’s start by looking at the federal micro-purchase threshold (MPT).
The term ‘compliance’ as it relates to cloud computing can elicit a wide variety of reactions. Some Developers cringe when they hear the word as they anticipate limited technology choices. Program Managers have images of project delays and increased complexity. Security and Compliance Officers see a framework for protecting the agency, its mission, and associated data (and maybe keeping their names off of the evening news).
When we look back on 2020 and early 2021, I believe we’ll see that COVID-19 had significant impact on the growth of cloud computing at government agencies as well. Whether it’s SaaS-based collaboration services or the use of cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS), government agencies increasingly turn to the cloud as part of their IT modernization efforts toward being ‘Cloud Smart’.
The Federal government spends more money on Information Technology than any other Fortune 500 company in the U.S., with an estimated FY20 IT budget exceeding $85B. Congress is responsible for passing an annual budget that allocates money to each Agency for the fiscal year that runs from October 1st to September 30th.
Vertosoft, the company driving emerging technology growth in government, announced today a partnership with Zimperium, the global leader in mobile security, and the first mobile threat defense (MTD) provider to receive FedRAMP Authorized status.