Phirelight - Invest Ottawa

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Phirelight; empowering you to tackle today's cyber threats
Ottawa-based cyber experts combine network traffic inspection, endpoint
monitoring, and intuitive analytics into a single, comprehensive solution.
Phirelight is a cyber security detection and
response solutions firm that offers a comprehensive
suite of IT security, information assurance, and
cyber protection solutions and educational services
to the defence, security, intelligence, and critical
infrastructure sectors.
Founded in Ottawa in 2001, Phirelight offers a unique
combination of “best of breed” solutions, methodologies, and
training to help organizations continuously and measurably
manage and protect their critical assets. As a rapidly growing
small business, Phirelight is in a unique position to understand
the complex cyber security needs of small and medium sized
organizations. Phirelight's extensive experience has allowed
them to handle even enterprise-sized deployments with ease.
Phirelight's pedigree is derived from work completed in the
National Defence, Security, and Intelligence communities. This
work has made them a recognized vendor for many
Government of Canada clients. Experienced in certification
and accreditation, policy compliance, high assurance solutions,
critical infrastructure, and malware remediation, Phirelight's
service offering is expansive and industry leading.
Phirelight's skilled and talented staff are currently focused on
the release, support, and distribution of rapidPHIRE™, a cyber
intelligence platform for situational awareness, breach
detection, and response. rapidPHIRE™ pushes the boundaries
of cyber security by combining rich visualization, big data
analytics, data science, threat intelligence behavior profiling,
and threat remediation.
Why Ottawa
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ottawa was known as
'Silicon Valley North', focused mainly in the telecom space.
Fast Facts
Corporate profile
Why Ottawa
Business Advantage
Phirelight is a cyber security and
Ottawa's numerous educational
Phirelight's flagship product
response firm, offering a comprehensive
institutions, international
rapidPHIRE™, is an Ottawa-made
suite of IT Security, information
organizations, and limitless events have
product that provides intuitive big data
assurance, and educational services to
allowed Phirelight to develop new
analytics and rich visualization of cyber
numerous sectors. Phirelight has an
strategic connections within domestic
security data, allowing organizations to
extensive pedigree in IT Security. Their
and international markets, as experts
monitor and protect their networks and
highly skilled staff are pushing the
in Cyber Security. Proximity to federal
sensitive data. Phirelight's roster of
boundaries of cyber security
government agencies has placed
resellers and partners are helping to
visualization, analysis, and threat
Phirelight in a unique position to help
distribute and support a homegrown
remediation
secure and protect Canada's critical
product in international markets.
assets and infrastructure, by people
who have first hand experience with
the Government of Canada.
more...
Now, in 2015, Ottawa is seeing a resurgence of large technology
clusters, with a renewed focus on data science and IT security.
This environment creates an ideal technological incubator and
innovation community.
The NCR offers a near limitless variety of events to attend,
along with a skilled pool of world-class talent and young talent
to leverage from the numerous surrounding educational
institutions. By securing a research and development
partnership with University of Ontario Institute of Technology
(UOIT), and recruiting emerging talent from Algonquin College,
the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University, Phirelight
has developed a strong local presence and has remained an
innovator in the field of IT Security.
Business Advantage
For the last three years, Phirelight has focused on the
development of rapidPHIRE™, a cutting-edge cyber intelligence
platform that provides rich visualization which is lacking in
most current cyber security offerings on the market. Phirelight's
intuitive product holds a distinct advantage over competitors
due to its unique scalability, and cost-effective pricing.
By simplifying digital relationships, rapidPHIRE™ provides users
with an unparalleled understanding of their network
infrastructure and cyber security posture. Using dynamic and
interactive visualization to track threats and analyze patterns,
rapidPHIRE™ can vastly reduce the time it takes to find and
understand network breaches, giving analysts quicker insight
into the workings of today's most advanced malware and cyber
threats.
Future Growth Plans
With Phirelight having secured resellers in the United States,
United Kingdom, and Canada in 2014 alone, rapidPHIRE™ is
quickly being adopted as a unique security tool that can protect
businesses both large and small. Phirelight is proud to
demonstrate to the Ottawa-Region and abroad what homegrown
Canadian talent can offer the growing Cyber Security &
Intelligence Community.
Phirelight remains dedicated to the continuous evolution of
rapidPHIRE™'s capabilities, and to providing both public and
private sector clients with the highest quality of IT security
expertise in the industry.
Contact information
Phirelight Security Solutions Inc.
1 (613) 276-8443
1 (877) 672-8070
sales@phirelight.com | www.phirelight.com | @PhirelightInc
Know your network. Know your threats.
Take control.™
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