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ShorePoint a Finalist for NVTC Capital Cyber Awards

shorepointnew on October 5, 2021

Firm Named for Government Contractor of the Year, Executive Rob Palmer Finalist for Cyber Executive of the Year

For Immediate Release
October 4, 2021

Washington, DC – ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, has been named a finalist for a Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Capital Cyber Award in the category of Cyber Government Contractor of the Year. ShorePoint Executive Vice President and CTO Rob Palmer has also been named a finalist for Cyber Executive of the Year.

“Today, cybersecurity is at the forefront of business leaders’ minds, as they implement safeguards to protect their data and propriety information to mitigate risks of cyberattacks,” said Jennifer Taylor, president and CEO, NVTC. “ShorePoint was selected as a finalist for the third annual NVTC Capital Cyber Awards because they are making a meaningful difference in protecting our critical assets, personal information and national security.”

The NVTC Capital Cyber Awards honor the region’s best cyber companies and leaders. This year, NVTC received nearly 40 nominations from area companies, organizations and individuals. The panel of judges included Lenard Marcus, general partner, Edison Partners; Tony Moraco, former CEO, SAIC and Dr. John Zangardi, president, Redhorse Corporation. Award recipients will be announced on October 22.

“We are proud to receive this important recognition from the Northern Virginia Technology Council,” said Matt Brown, ShorePoint co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “It is a reflection of our teams’ accomplishments and the close, collaborative relationships we enjoy with our clients to be named among the area’s best cyber security providers.”

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Launched in 2017, ShorePoint is committed to driving positive change in the community and for its clients. The company continuously invests in and promotes professional and technical growth for each employee to remain on the forefront of cybersecurity best practices. ShorePoint offers clients unmatched cybersecurity experience in federal civilian, defense, and intelligence communities, as well as commercial support in technology financial and healthcare industries.

Fortune Magazine Names ShorePoint a 2021 Best Small & Medium Workplace

shorepointnew on August 16, 2021

Washington, DC – August 16, 2021

ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, today announced it has been honored by Fortune magazine for the third year in a row as one of the country’s 2021 Best Small & Medium Workplaces.™

The designation reflects that 98 percent of ShorePoint employees reported positive views of their workplace culture, compared to 59 percent of employees at the average U.S. company. The Best Small & Medium Workplaces list is highly competitive, and companies are only considered if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization.

“These companies may be small in size, but their impact and commitment to improving employee experience stacks up against some of the world’s largest corporations,” said Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work®. “Their ability to scale business while maintaining a high level of employee care is nothing short of amazing.”

Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of employees’ identities or roles.

“We are proud of the reputation we have earned as a great place to work and are committed to empowering our team,” said Matt Brown, ShorePoint co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “ShorePoint continues to celebrate individual success and remains passionate about sustaining an environment that supports creativity, accountability, diversity, inclusion, and a focus on giving back to our community.”

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Launched in 2017, ShorePoint is committed to driving positive change in the community and for its clients. The company continuously invests in and promotes professional and technical growth for each employee to remain on the forefront of cybersecurity best practices. ShorePoint offers clients unmatched cybersecurity experience in federal civilian, defense, and intelligence communities, as well as commercial support in technology financial and healthcare industries.

Building an Interagency Cybersecurity Dashboard, Securing Government IT Infrastructure

shorepointnew on August 6, 2021

ShorePoint’s contributions across the entire architecture of the DHS CDM Program puts it at the forefront of a national initiative to defend federal government systems and agencies against evolving cyber threats.

Background and Challenge

ShorePoint is building a vital capability for the federal government that will inform critical decisions and drive operational efficiency through effective data analysis, reliability, consolidation, and risk-based prioritization.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program is evolving to give agencies enhanced cybersecurity capabilities and a dashboard designed to maximize the value of their cybersecurity data. CDM delivers value to agencies primarily through two distinct avenues: The CDM Dashboard Ecosystem and the CDM Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense (DEFEND) Task Orders.

The Dashboard Ecosystem, the result of a contract awarded in 2019, provides agency leaders greater awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities along with objective guidance on what should be prioritized for remediation. The dashboard brings enhanced performance, visualization, scalability and data analytics to all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. This will allow DHS to observe assets and assess threats FCEB-wide and implement a scoring system to objectively measure risk and vulnerability.  The DEFEND Task Orders are delivering tailored cybersecurity solutions and capabilities to FCEB agencies while helping them to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities and risks.

ShorePoint is delivering strategic and technical expertise on both the DEFEND and Dashboard Ecosystem Programs, working closely with the lead integrators on each contract. This enables ShorePoint to provide unique insights across stakeholder groups while teaming with some of the industry’s largest companies to innovate and deliver client value in a highly collaborative, multi-vendor environment.

The CDM architecture consists of four layers, which inform cybersecurity insights, aggregate and normalize data, provide detailed dashboards for agencies that prioritize vulnerabilities and threats for remediation; and provide insights into the health of federal networks.

Among the challenges associated with this first-ever enterprise cybersecurity program for the FCEB are a variety of legacy systems across agencies, the need to normalize and ensure data quality, and the need to integrate systems, solutions, and capabilities among multiple vendors and government organizations in a complex technology ecosystem.

Solution and Benefits

The DHS CDM Dashboard Ecosystem is built on an innovative, scalable search and analytics platform – Elasticsearch – that provides the foundational capability to enable greater visibility into federal networks and standardize threat monitoring. Elasticsearch is a pervasive open-source based data aggregation, analytics and modeling platform used by commercial and public sector environments to improve risk-based decisions and priorities. The Dashboard Ecosystem is comprised of instances of Elastic deployed in both on-premises and cloud-based delivery models.

ShorePoint supports the development, testing, deployment, integration, and delivery of CDM Dashboard capabilities for several FCEB agencies and the enterprise Federal Dashboard. ShorePoint further supports the development and implementation of an innovative delivery model for Dashboard Ecosystem capabilities through the Dashboard as a Service (DBaaS).

This “as a service” offering is hosted on Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) and includes ease-of-use features for upgrades and manageability – allowing agencies to have a dedicated cluster provided and administered by the DHS Dashboard Integrator – negating the need for large system requirements, personnel and budgets often required in a non-SAAS configuration. This model also enables rapid development and delivery of additional capabilities and features from within the Dashboard Ecosystem.

Moving Forward

ShorePoint will continue working to combine disparate agency security and operational data sources and platforms into consolidated, actionable, and intelligent dashboards offering advanced analytics and modeling to drive risk-based decisions for the federal government.

With critical project milestones successfully achieved in 2020 and 2021, ShorePoint will continue to help the program evolve through future releases in 2022. The excellence in architecture, design, and development of the CDM Dashboard Ecosystem and the underlying Elasticsearch platform have laid the groundwork for increased functional and operational security benefits for stakeholders. ShorePoint will continue to work with CDM Program leadership and the integrators for DEFEND and the Dashboard Ecosystem to drive enhancements to cyber resiliency across the FCEB agency enterprise.

Transforming, Future-Proofing Cybersecurity for a Federal Agency

shorepointnew on August 6, 2021

Background and Challenge

In October 2020, ShorePoint was engaged by a large federal agency to design and implement enhancements to an enterprise vulnerability management program. ShorePoint teams were tasked with re-engineering and optimizing vulnerability scanning across network, application and database assets across thousands of endpoints in a complex IT environment.

The agency’s challenge was to deploy effective and comprehensive vulnerability scanning in a continuous manner, while adhering to federal best practices. The platform was also required to integrate with a massive cyber data lake to aggregate relevant security information into a centralized reporting capability – enabling dashboard tailoring based on various stakeholder needs. The goal: To help the agency achieve data dominance by providing actionable data to agency leaders and ensure seamless integration with a larger, government-wide cybersecurity initiative.

Solution and Benefits

ShorePoint engaged in a collaborative partnership with agency stakeholders and other cyber and IT providers in a multi-vendor environment. While modernizing monitoring capabilities with the latest tools and capabilities for the client and its end-users, ShorePoint is also providing near real-time visibility across the enterprise to inform mitigation actions and/or identify gaps in capabilities.

As part of the process, ShorePoint experts are continuously learning and building relationships across teams, ensuring that ShorePoint’s work is effectively supporting the customer’s overall mission. Utilizing Agile delivery methodologies, ShorePoint and its project partners are developing/integrating vital system components in parallel while progressing through the phases of system expansion, optimization and ultimately – transformation.

To future-proof agency capabilities, ShorePoint also conducts ongoing analysis of alternatives that may provide the best solutions for the future, exploring mature technologies and established companies as well as emerging, leading-edge solutions.

Moving Forward

Nearly one year into a four-year contract, ShorePoint continues to expand and optimize the organization’s vulnerability management capabilities, identifying gaps in the environment and ensuring proper coverage and reporting. In upcoming project phases, ShorePoint will deploy additional solutions that will further transform and modernize the agency’s scanning environment.

ShorePoint Profiled in Washington Business Journal

shorepointnew on July 29, 2021

While the cyber contractor was largely shielded from the crisis, it now contends with the return-to-office conundrum

By Carten Cordell, Staff Reporter
Jul 22, 2021

Edging closer to the final chapters of the Covid pandemic, Matt Brown is busy strategizing for the future.

The CEO of ShorePoint Inc., a Herndon cybersecurity services company, has weathered most of the business effects of the global crisis because it sits at the center of an essential service for a number of federal agency customers. And its offerings only became more critical following the Biden administration’s first cyber features like multifactor authentication, data encryption and zero-trust architectures.

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ShorePoint Awarded $300 Million U.S. Department of Education Cybersecurity BPA

shorepointnew on July 28, 2021

Washington, DC – July 28, 2021

ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, today announced it was awarded a five-year $300 million blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide cybersecurity and support services to the U.S. Department of Education (DoED) Office of Federal Student Aid.

“We are excited at the opportunity to provide services for the DoED Chief Information Officer and Office of Federal Student Aid toward building resilience against evolving cyber threats,” said Matt Brown, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShorePoint. “Our educational institutions, at all levels, are the lifeblood of our nation’s ability to compete globally. We look forward to a successful collaboration to achieve lower risk, maximize cyber resilience and drive efficiency on behalf of the people and programs served by this vital federal agency that promotes student achievement through educational excellence and the assurance of equal access.”

The BPA will provide cybersecurity and privacy support services for the implementation of cybersecurity policies, IT enterprise infrastructure protection, and the protection of sensitive data. Other areas of support covered by the contract include cybersecurity risk management and compliance; information systems security services; cybersecurity operations; software capability operations and maintenance; security architecture support; security engineering; and continuous diagnostics and mitigation.

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Launched in 2017, ShorePoint is committed to driving positive change in the community and for its clients. The company continuously invests in and promotes professional and technical growth for each employee to remain on the forefront of cybersecurity best practices. ShorePoint offers clients unmatched cybersecurity experience in federal civilian, defense, and intelligence communities, as well as commercial support in technology financial and healthcare industries.

ShorePoint Earns ‘Great Place to Work’ Certification™ for Third Consecutive Year

shorepointnew on May 21, 2021

WASHINGTON  – May 21, 2021

ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, today announced it has earned the Great Place to Work® certification for the third year in a row, with 98 percent of employees reporting positive views of ShorePoint’s workplace culture, compared to 59 percent of employees at the average U.S. company.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.

“Great Place to Work Certification isn’t something that comes easily; it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. “It’s the only official recognition determined by employees’ real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that ShorePoint is one of the best companies to work for in the country.”
According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, and have a fair chance at promotion.

“We are proud of the reputation we have earned as a great place to work and are committed to empowering our team,” said Matt Brown, ShorePoint co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “ShorePoint will continue to celebrate individual success and remain passionate about sustaining an environment that supports creativity, accountability, diversity, inclusion, and a focus on giving back to our community.”

ShorePoint, Inc. Earns ISO 9001:2015 Certification by global certification body NQA

shorepointnew on April 28, 2021

WASHINGTON  – April 28, 2021

ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, today announced it has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification, demonstrating the ability to consistently provide services and solutions that meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Awarded by global certification body NQA, ISO 9001 is the internationally-recognized standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS). It is the most widely-used QMS standard in the world, with more than 1.1 million certificates issued to organizations in 178 countries.

ISO 9001 provides a framework and set of principles that ensure a common-sense approach to management that consistently satisfies customers and other stakeholders. “In simple terms,” said NQA, “it provides the basis for effective processes and effective people to deliver an effective product or service time after time.”

The standard follows the common structure provided by Annex SL. ISO 9001:2015 is more compatible with other management systems, such as ISO 14001, making it more effective and efficient to integrate management systems.

ShorePoint’s certification for ISO 9001:2015 demonstrates the company’s commitment to provide qualified and experienced personnel, ensuring the highest quality of cybersecurity consulting, professional, and technical support services. The company drives consistent project success by following a mission-first, risk-based approach to deliver enhanced cybersecurity services.

“This vital certification reflects our commitment to the highest quality standards and ongoing improvement,” said Matt Brown, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShorePoint. “ISO 9000:2015 certification also validates the dedication of ShorePoint’s talented and knowledgeable teams who continue to deliver at the highest levels on behalf of our clients and their missions.”

ShorePoint a 2021 Finalist for SECAF Government Contractor of the Year Award

shorepointnew on April 5, 2021

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2021 –

ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, today announced its selection as a finalist for the 2021 Government Contractor of the Year Award by the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum (SECAF).  ShorePoint is nominated in the category for companies with revenues of $7.5 – $15 million.

“The SECAF Awards shine a spotlight on the vision and success that enable the community of government contractors to deliver excellence year-in and year-out,” said SECAF Board Chair Richard Pineda. “It is a privilege to recognize ShorePoint, as it mirrors the tenets of our own organization in terms of leadership, fortitude and commitment.”

The Government Contractor of the Year award recognizes companies that have shown a “compelling and profound commitment to excellence in financial performance.” Winners will be announced in May at the SECAF virtual awards gala. ShorePoint received the award in 2020 for companies with revenues of less than $7.5 million.

“Serving the nation’s most vital and mission-critical government agencies continues to be a source of pride for ShorePoint and our dedicated team of professionals,” said Matt Brown, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShorePoint. “We are honored to be considered once again for this prestigious award.”

Launched in 2017, ShorePoint is committed to driving positive change in the community and for its clients. The company continuously invests in and promotes professional and technical growth for each employee to remain on the forefront of cybersecurity best practices. ShorePoint offers clients unmatched cybersecurity experience in federal civilian, defense, and intelligence communities, as well as commercial support in technology, financial and healthcare industries.

ShorePoint, Inc. Nominated for 2021 Moxie Award

shorepointnew on March 17, 2021

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 –

ShorePoint Inc., a cybersecurity services company that protects customers’ critical assets from cyber threats, today announced it is a finalist for a 2021 Moxie Award, a recognition presented to DC-area companies that have demonstrated “boldness and innovation as an integral part of their growth strategy.”

“This year’s finalists truly represent the spirit of Moxie and we are excited to help tell the stories of how they have navigated the past year,” said Moxie Award Chair Katie Jordan.

The Moxie Award honors companies, nonprofits and associations for “boldness in business.” According to Moxie criteria, awardees are also recognized for making the DC metro area “an incredible place to live, thrive and play.” Winners of the 2021 Moxie Award will be announced October 13, 2021.

“We are excited to have our team and values recognized in this way,” said Matt Brown, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShorePoint. “We strive every year to match our commitment to growth, innovation and client service with an ongoing investment in our people and the community. We are proud to be placed among the region’s boldest and most innovative organizations.”

Launched in 2017, ShorePoint is committed to driving positive change in the community and for its clients. The company continuously invests in and promotes professional and technical growth for each employee to remain on the forefront of cybersecurity best practices. ShorePoint offers clients unmatched cybersecurity experience in federal civilian, defense, and intelligence communities, as well as commercial support in technology financial and healthcare industries.

ShorePoint is an elite cybersecurity firm dedicated to improving the cyber resilience of Federal agencies and their missions.

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