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Leading and Managing Change for Strategic Advantages in Cyber Defense

Canfield Consulting Group, LLC, doing business as Canfield CyberDefense Group as “CCG,” is a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged WOSB (EDWOSB) GSA IT Schedule 70 MAS that was founded on January 1st, 2013, deploying the first at-scale AI with cognitive analytics. Canfield is an SBA 8(a) certified company with experience in state-of-the-art data analytics, artificial intelligence–driven security appliance solutions, support, and services.

CCG was born out of the singular vision to provide a state-of-the-art, cutting-edge AI security appliance solution in a preconfigured package. This drive led us to develop Phen.AI^© packaged with CheckMate^©, a trade-secret, all-in-one sophisticated cyber-defense AI analytic appliance and related support. CCG offers the commercial CheckMate^© appliance, a complete self-contained defense solution delivered as an integrated appliance. CheckMate^© leverages and powers artificial intelligence called “Phen.AI^©,” a cutting-edge cognitive learning technology. CCG developed Phen.AI^©, the Humanoid Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Silicon, a sophisticated analytic engine embedded within the appliance that provides optimized methodologies to assess a range of things—from pre-analysis network information or data searches to post-analysis data mining and visualizations to help ensure the resilience of critical infrastructure.

CCG’s innovation, Phen.AI^©, is the world’s largest and most complete security knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. CCG’s proprietary and validated security appliance provides organizations with easy-to-use, state-of-the-art, complete cyber-defense protection capabilities. CCG is an information AI cyber-defense appliance and solutions company that also provides specialized professional services for IT, with a specialization in cyber and project management.

CCG’s complete self-contained cybersecurity appliance is built on Phen.AI^© and is packaged with CheckMate^©.

The Phen.AI^© is responsible for detecting any network problems and insider threats, providing threat hunting, and providing behavioral analytic detections. Including pen testing, complete visibility of your network,

Let’s look at Phen^©, the AI.

What is it offering you to address cyber defense threats, and why is Phen^©, the AI solution, different than everyone else in today’s digital market?

The Phen.AI^© is giving you

• Humanoid Intelligence driving your cyber defense. AI is using humanoid thought operating at silicon speed.  The solution is protection against insider threats and threats from zero-day or unknown origins for better and complete protection of your network.  Phen.AI^© is like combining Flash with Sherlock Holmes, and they are working together to solve problems.
• Phen.AI’s^© ability to start understanding the network and offering “protection” within 15 minutes of deployment and reducing threat detection and breach detection times to less than 15 minutes compared to the industry standard.
• Phen.AI^© is not difficult to set up or use.  Deployment is straightforward compared to other products in the industry standard.
• Many products require a baselining of the network that can take anywhere from 30 days to several months.  However, Phen AI^© does not require this, and it is operational within 15 minutes of installation and setup.
• Normally, it takes 15 minutes for Phen AI^© to discover and learn the network.  Over time, Checkmate^© got more intelligent, like Sherlock.
• Phen.AI^© is your cyber SME and works with your IT security team and provides security.

Currently, CheckMate^© is deployed into an appliance, is also designed to operate at the STIGs level network without reach-back to the vendor site or cloud presence.

CCG’s technical expertise and business-knowledgeable professionals support organizations’ improvements in corporate information systems through better information security and information management processes.   CCG has a proven history of assisting its federal and commercial clients (e.g., the National Archives, the Census Bureau, the Department of State, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Commerce) to implement strategic systems in a timely and effective manner. Our certified engineering and software development experts have the necessary breadth of experience to help our clients analyze, design, and develop systems that mitigate risk.