Telos Corporation provides cybersecurity, cyber GRC automation, identity, cloud compliance, secure network, and organizational messaging solutions for government, regulated industry, and commercial customers. Its portfolio spans the Xacta cyber GRC platform, digital identity and biometric services, TSA PreCheck® enrollment, aviation worker vetting, secure network operations, and mission-oriented communications.
Telos Corporation positions its offerings around protecting people, organizations, and information. Beyond software, it delivers cloud migration and security services, background check and fingerprinting capabilities, secure wireless and deployable communications, and web-based messaging systems for high-security environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Telos Corporation combines software platforms and operational services across cyber risk management, digital identity, cloud security, and secure network operations. Its capabilities include automating assessment and authorization workflows, continuous monitoring, remediation planning, biometric enrollment and matching, fingerprint background checks, and secure workforce vetting for aviation and other regulated environments.
Integration is a recurring theme across the portfolio. Xacta.io ingests data from scanners, firewalls, and other security tools, while Telos Corporation also highlights integrations with Azure Policy and Blueprints for cloud compliance workflows. In cloud services, it emphasizes vendor-neutral architectures, migration support, managed services, and security engineering delivered by AWS- and Azure-certified practitioners.
On the network and communications side, Telos Corporation supports secure mobility, wireless networks, deployable communications, defensive network operations, and secure organizational messaging. These capabilities are designed for environments that need resilient connectivity, operational control, and protected information exchange.
Products and Services
- Xacta 360: Cyber GRC platform for threat-informed risk management and continuous compliance across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, including support for frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST RMF, and ISO 27001.
- Xacta.io: Continuous security assessment module that imports configuration and vulnerability data from scanners, firewalls, and other tools to provide unified visibility into security posture and cyber risk.
- Xacta.ai: AI capability at the core of the Xacta platform that speeds control implementation statements, remediation planning, and contextual risk analysis for compliance and risk teams.
- TSA PreCheck® Enrollment by Telos: Authorized TSA PreCheck® enrollment and renewal service with more than 500 locations nationwide, including retail and airport-based enrollment options.
- IDVetting: Biographic and fingerprint background check service for organizations and individuals, including FBI and FDLE checks, with approved FBI channeler status and Departmental Order submission capability.
- ONYX Touchless Digital Fingerprinting: Touchless mobile fingerprint biometrics offering and SDK for iOS, Android, and HTML5 environments, with image capture, image processing, liveness detection, and on-device matching.
- Aviation Channeling Services (ACS): TSA-approved aviation worker vetting service for airports and airlines that channels fingerprints and enrollment data for security threat assessments, criminal history record checks, Rap Back, and related workflows.
- Telos Secure Networks: Secure network engineering and operational support offering spanning wireless networks, secure mobility, network management and defense, and deployable communications for mission environments.
- Telos DAWN: Deploy Anywhere Wireless Node solution for go-anywhere internet access in remote, austere, or deployed locations.
- AMHS Organizational Messaging: Web-based automated message handling system for secure organizational messaging, supporting OMS, ITS, and agency-specific protocols with routing, archiving, search, and auditing features.
- IDTrust360: Hybrid-cloud digital identity services platform for identity verification and assurance, document capture and validation, biometric capture and matching, and omnichannel enrollment across enterprise environments.
- Telos Cloud Services: Vendor-neutral cloud services covering readiness assessments, migration and engineering, hosting, architecture reviews, managed services, and cloud security and compliance support.
Target Customers
Telos Corporation primarily serves security-conscious public-sector organizations, including federal civilian agencies, defense and military customers, and other government environments with stringent compliance, identity, and mission-assurance requirements. Its Xacta, secure network, and messaging offerings are positioned for customers operating in sensitive or regulated environments and for teams that need to accelerate authorization and continuous compliance.
It also targets regulated and operationally demanding commercial markets. These include healthcare organizations, financial services firms, airports and airlines, and enterprises that need secure identity proofing, fingerprint-based background checks, worker vetting, or secure wireless and cloud security support. TSA PreCheck® enrollment further extends Telos Corporation’s reach to individual travelers.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Telos Corporation has an AWS Marketplace seller presence and offers Xacta 360 on AWS Marketplace. Telos Corporation also positions Xacta 360 for AWS-based compliance workflows, including availability in AWS regions and GovCloud.
- Azure Marketplace: Telos Corporation states that Xacta is available on Azure Marketplace and markets Xacta 360 VMI for FedRAMP High workloads in Azure Government regions, with integrations that include Azure Policy and Blueprints.
Key People
- John B. Wood: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
- Mark Bendza: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
- Mark Griffin: Executive Vice President of Security Solutions
- E. Hutchinson Robbins, Jr.: Executive Vice President, General Counsel
- Lee Canterbury: Senior Vice President of Growth
- Hugh Barrett: Chief Product Officer, Xacta
- Stephen Horvath: Senior Vice President of Xacta Solutions
- Malcolm Cooke: Vice President, Chief Information Technology Officer
- Ian Fagan: Chief Information Security Officer
- Donna Hill: Vice President of Human Resources
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Ashburn, Virginia, United States
- Employees: 525
- Annual Revenue: $164.8M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: 4 wholly owned subsidiaries, including Xacta Corporation, ubIQuity.com, inc., Teloworks, Inc., and Telos Identity Management Solutions, LLC (Telos ID).
- Publicly Listed: NASDAQ: TLS
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management – Sample Vendor in Continuous Controls Monitoring. 2023 Gartner Innovation Insight: Cybersecurity Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) – Named in report.
