Defending Cyberspace by Automating Software Inventory Across the Air Force

The Air Force lacks an accurate software inventory capability which allows for thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities to go unnoticed threatening the mission. According to our letter of support from defense primes, 80% of defense industrial base cyberattacks would have been prevented if accurate software inventories were available.  Atomus has built and is currently selling software that automatically analyzes a computer and inventories the applications running on it. Atomus’ innovative approach can be adapted for the Air Force to enhance the software inventory practices by adding efficiency through automation, eliminating the current process where Air Force personnel manually inventory applications on each computer. This results in greater cost savings from the identification of duplicate and obsolete software applications while exponentially reducing the number of man hours the Air Force is currently dedicating to manually complete this process. It is believed that duplicative software licenses and technical support which isn’t utilized by the military costs the Air Force tens of millions of dollars each year. Atomus’ technology will give the Air Force Information Technology Asset Managers an efficient method of validating their owned and in-use software applications inventory while reducing the cybersecurity risk to the Air Force of unmaintained software applications.