FortiusOne Moves to New Offices

FortiusOne, a company specializing in next-generation intelligent mapping services, is moving its offices from Georgetown to Arlington, Virginia. “We are pleased to have this new space that can accommodate our growth,” said Sean Gorman, CEO of FortiusOne. “It’s an exciting time here. We’re experiencing tremendous interest in our public GeoCommons site and our Intelligent Mapping Solutions for government and commercial customers.”

GeoCommons is an Intelligent Map Atlas site which was opened to the public in May. It offers a large atlas of intelligent maps and geodata, including more than two-billion location attributes in nearly 2,000 data sets. It also provides easy point-and-click tools for creating and sharing intelligent maps and data. The company is already offering its Intelligent Mapping Solutions to government agencies in defense, homeland security, and intelligence, and it is now expanding the solution to commercial markets such as media and entertainment, real estate, and NGO.

FortiusOne has carved a niche for itself in intelligent Web mapping which offers rich information visualization on maps, access to geographic data, and new ways to grow collective knowledge. FortiusOne’s GeoIQ Web service platform allows developers to build Intelligent Mapping applications which in turn make it possible for people to explore, create, and share Intelligent Maps and geographic data.

Sean Gorman is the author of Networks, Security and Complexity: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. The book is based on his Ph.D. dissertation, which caused quite a stir becasue government security experts were worried that it would give terrorists idea on how to inflict damage on U.S. critical infrstructure. Richard Clarke, the terrorism adviser to both Bill Clinton and George Bush, read a draft of the dissertation then commented: “He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade — and then they both should burn it.”