VISIUM TECHNOLOGIES OBTAINS EXCLUSIVE
LICENSE RIGHTS TO ITS CYBERSECURITY TECHNOLOGY
Company amends existing licensing agreement with MITRE
FAIRFAX,
VA, May 13, 2020 (ACCESSWIRE) –Visium Technologies, Inc.
(“Visium” or the “Company”) (OTCPINK:
VISM), a provider of real-time cybersecurity context and
visualization technologies, today announced that its wholly owned
subsidiary, Visium Analytics, LLC, has entered into an agreement
amending its existing licensing agreement with The MITRE
Corporation to provide the Company with the exclusive license
rights to CyGraph®, a
patented cybersecurity application.
Mark
Lucky, Visium’s CEO, commented, “Having the exclusive
rights to develop and commercialize Cygraph® is a strong
endorsement by MITRE of Visium’s ability to achieve great
success in commercializing this technology. Security is undergoing
a fundamental transition and CyGraph® provides
machine learning acceleration, advanced cyber hunting, forensics,
incident response and analytics that greatly enhances the security
posture of the enterprise, while also creating greater efficiencies
and cost savings. CyGraph® simplifies
cybersecurity by visualizing the network security posture before
and during an attack with Visium’s TrueContexttm technology –
delivering an intuitive situational picture of the enterprise. We
are well underway with our commercialization efforts, and in
addition to our key technology partnership with Nutanix, we have
been diligently working on several additional business development
and partnership opportunities that we expect to finalize in the
coming weeks.
“CyGraph
is currently available as an on-premises security solution and will
soon be available as a cloud-based SaaS platform. In addition,
Cygraph® will be
available within the Nutanix Marketplace in the coming
weeks.”
Barry Costa, MITRE’s Director of Licensing, said, “The
impact of MITRE’s intellectual property is often best
realized when it is brought to market by commercial companies like
Visium. Not only does technology transfer support the economic
growth of the United States; it also allows our U.S. government
sponsors the opportunity to purchase supported products with
federally-funded intellectual property inside.”
About MITRE
For a half century, MITRE has worked as a strategic partner to
federal agencies to solve hard problems in cybersecurity. MITRE's
mission-driven teams are dedicated to solving problems for a safer
world. Through public-private partnerships, as well as the
operation of federally funded R&D centers, we work across
government to tackle challenges to the safety, stability, and
well-being of our nation.
About Visium Technologies, Inc.
Visium
Technologies, Inc. (OTC: VISM) is a Florida corporation based in
Fairfax, Virginia, focused on global cybersecurity clarity, machine
learning, advancing technology and automating services to support
enterprises in protecting their most valuable assets - their data,
business applications, and IoT on their networks and in the
cloud.
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more information please visit www.visiumtechnologies.com
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Amendment
Number One to
The MITRE Corporation License Agreement
for CyGraph
Software
WHEREAS Visium Analytics, LLC
(“Licensee”) and The MITRE Corporation
(“MITRE”) entered into a
Software License Agreement for CyGraph Software dated 27
March 2019 (the
“Agreement”); and
WHEREAS the software and documentation comprising the data
visualization capability known as CyGraph may be described and
claimed in U.S. Patent No. 10,313,382, issued June 4, 2019, and
titled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AND ANALYZING
CYBER-ATTACKS USING A GRAPH MODEL” (the "CyGraph Patent");
and
WHEREAS Company and MITRE
desire to amend the Agreement for the purpose of conveying
exclusive rights to the CyGraph Software, and any claims of
the CyGraph Patent that would otherwise be infringed by making,
using, selling, or importing for sale the CyGraph Software,
contingent on Company’s
achievement of certain Milestones as set forth in this Amendment
Number One (“Amendment One”), effective
_May 7,
2020_____ (the “Amendment
One Effective Date”).
NOW, THEREFORE, Company and
MITRE, desiring to enter into a legally binding agreement, agree as
follows:
1.
All terms and conditions of the
Agreement, including all its exhibits
and attachments, will remain in full force and effect unless
specifically revised in this Amendment One.
2.
Section
“License” shall be amended to add the following
thereafter:
“(g)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the parties
mutually agree that commencing on Amendment One Effective
Date:
1.
MITRE agrees to
grant an exclusive, revocable license of the Software, for Licensee
to use, copy, and create Derivative Works for a period of two (2)
years (“Exclusive Period”). For the purpose of this
paragraph, the term “Year” shall mean any given twelve
(12) month period. Licensee shall pay MITRE an Exclusivity Fee of
(a) $20,000 for Year 1 of the Exclusive Period, and (b) $50,000 for
Year 2 of the Exclusive Period. The Exclusivity Fees are payable as
following: for Year 1, the first installment of $10,000 is due upon
execution of this Amendment One, and the second installment of
$10,000 is due at the first anniversary of the Amendment One
Effective Date; for Year 2, one payment of $50,000 is due at the
second anniversary of the Amendment One Effective Date. MITRE will
invoice Licensee for each installment, and Licensee shall pay
within thirty (30) days of the invoice date.
(i)
Milestone No. 1.: Licensee agrees to raise investment capital of at
least two (2) million dollars from accredited investors within
eighteen (18) months from the Amendment One Effective Date
(“Fundraising Period”). Licensee will provide reports
to MITRE containing details of investment capital raised when this
Milestone No. 1 is achieved, with a summary report at the end of
the Fundraising Period. If Licensee fails to achieve Milestone No.
1 within the Fundraising Period, the exclusive license granted in
paragraph 1 above is revoked immediately.
(ii)
Milestone No. 2.: Licensee agrees to make at least five (5)
commercial sales within the Fundraising Period. If Licensee fails
to achieve Milestone No. 2 within the Fundraising Period, the
exclusive license granted in paragraph 1 above is revoked
immediately.
3.
During or after the
Fundraising Period, if Licensee raises investment capital in excess
of Milestone No. 1, MITRE shall extend, in writing by Amendment to
the License Agreement, the Exclusive Period at the rate of twelve
(12) months per each one (1) million dollars raised (the
“Extended Exclusive Period”), provided however, that
the total duration of the exclusive license shall not exceed five
(5) years from the Amendment One Effective Date.
4.
During each Year of
the Extended Exclusive Period, Licensee shall pay to MITRE an
Extended Exclusivity Fee equal to the greater of (i) $50,000
annually or (ii) 6% of gross fees charged to Licensee’s
customers for Licensee’s Product for any and all sales of the
Licensee Product accrued during the Year. Licensee agrees to follow
the procedure as set forth in the Agreement, Section 4.2
“Fees and Payments”, for reporting and paying the
Extended Exclusivity Fee.”
3.
Section
4.3 “Change of Control Fees” shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
“4.3
Change of Control
Fees. In the event that there is a change in control of
Licensee’s division that is engaged in commercializing the
Licensed Products, whether through sale, merger or acquisition
(“Change in Control”), where the corresponding
transaction is valued at:
(i) greater than twenty million dollars
($20,000,000) and less than or equal to one hundred million dollars
($100,000,000), then Licensee shall immediately remit to MITRE a
one-time fee of one-hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00);
or
(ii) greater than one hundred million
dollars ($100,000,000.00) and less than or equal to one billion
dollars ($1,000,000,000.00), then Licensee shall immediately remit
to MITRE a one-time fee of two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($250,000.00) or
(iii) greater than one billion dollars
($1,000,000,000), then Licensee shall immediately remit to MITRE a
one-time fee of one million dollars
($1,000,000.00).”
4.
The
parties and each individual executing this agreement on behalf of
the parties hereto represent and warrant that such individual is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this Amendment One on behalf
of his or her party.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed
this Amendment One to be effective as of the Amendment One
Effective Date.
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Visium Analytics, LLC
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The MITRE Corporation
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By: /s/
Mark Lucky
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By: /s/
Vivian C. Coyan
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(Signature)
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(Signature)
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Name:
Mark Lucky
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Name:
Vivian C. Coyan
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Title:
Chief Executive Officer
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Title:
Corporate Licensing Manager
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Date:
May 6, 2020
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Date: 7
May 2020
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