Pikewerks Opens San Antonio, TX Metro Area Office
06.01.2010
Pikewerks Corporation, a leading provider of computer security products and advanced research and development, announced today that it has opened an office in the San Antonio, TX Metro Area. The office, located in Alamo Heights, will allow Pikewerks to better serve business partners in the Southwest and recruit local firmware and kernel developers. Adam Fraser, Director of Special Operations of Pikewerks, says "This opening enables Pikewerks to anticipate and respond to the needs of the 24th Air Force and USCYBERCOM."
Visit Pikewerks During the 2010 Missile Defense Small Business Programs Conference
05.26.2010
Visit Pikewerks during the Annual Missile Defense Small Business Programs Conference at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL, May 27. Pikewerks will host a booth during the exhibition and will have information about its cyber security, software protection, anti-tamper, information operations, data protection, and forensics capabilities.
Pikewerks Receives Contract to Implement Information Security and Trust in a Space Communications Network
05.18.2010
Pikewerks announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command to implement information security and trust in a space communications network. Even though the issues of security and trust of sensitive information have existed for hundreds of years, the increasing reliance on computer networks to transmit sensitive information has brought these matters to the forefront of information security. As such, numerous network security systems have been proposed to address these issues, but few have proven either effective or tractable, and fewer still have proven to be both. Leveraging its experience in information security and tamper resistance, Pikewerks has been funded to develop an information security and trust system that is effective at preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information and is easy to use and integrate into existing environments, thereby lowering barriers of adoption. This security and trust system will advance the state-of-the-art in secure communication and remote attestation by integrating the two technologies into a semi-automated solution capable of encrypting sensitive information and ensuring trust of remote systems. The integration of this technology with Pikewerks' Electronic Armor® technology will provide an increased level of security to Pikewerks-protected systems by hardening them against remote exploitation, unauthorized traffic monitoring, and other remote attacks.
Pikewerks to Speak on How Technology Can Turn You Into An Unwitting Insider at the 11th Annual NCMS Mid-South DSS Seminar
04.15.2010
Pikewerks continues to be recognized as an industry leader and subject matter expert in offensive and defensive computer security. Pikewerks' Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ring, is an invited speaker at the NCMS DSS (Society for Industrial Security Professionals and Defense Security Services) 11th Annual Seminar on April 15, 2010 in Huntsville, Alabama.
The purpose of the seminar is to educate Department of Defense facility security professionals to advance the protection practices of industrial information security and raise awareness to threats and vulnerabilities that impact critical government programs and initiatives. Mr. Ring will be speaking on how technology can turn you into an unwitting insider.
Visit Pikewerks at the 10th Annual DoD Anti-Tamper Conference
04.08.2010
Visit Pikewerks at the 10th Annual DoD Anti-Tamper Conference which will be held April 13-15, 2010 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Chief Operating Officer Irby Thompson, Jr. will be speaking about using software-based protection as the "glue" for Anti-Tamper (AT) solutions.
This year Pikewerks will also be demonstrating an example of a successful software-based attack against a device protected with physical Anti-Tamper. The importance of this demonstration is to illustrate the need for protecting both the physical and virtual interfaces of a system. The claim has been made that software-protecting software does not work; while this may have been true of older, traditional software protection systems which relied on obfuscation, it is no longer true of modern software protection capabilities. As the demonstration will illustrate, modern software protection provides a robust line of defense in layered AT applications where coatings and volume protections fail, are broken, or simply do not address the threat. Likewise, modern software protection capabilities can be used to provide an added layer of protection for any sensitive software running within the system, even protecting the software from common vulnerabilities, which could be leveraged by an attacker in order to achieve arbitrary code execution and system exploitation. Additionally, software protection provides a cost effective method for protecting CPI when hardware and volume protection is not practical or required.
Pikewerks has spent the past 5 years researching and developing the industry-leading software protection solution, Electronic Armor®, which uses advanced, out of band techniques to deliver protection from piracy, theft and reverse engineering. Electronic Armor currently supports Linux, VxWorks, and Windows on Intel and PowerPC platforms.
Pikewerks Receives Contract to Secure Industrial Control Systems
03.08.2010
Pikewerks Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Air Force to develop cyber security techniques aimed at securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS). ICS are critical electronic assets in electrical, water, oil/gas, and manufacturing services involving supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed control systems (DCS), and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). As a result of their criticality and expected 100% availability, ICS introduces numerous security challenges, which need to be overcome through research such as this. Initially, safeguarding for these systems was provided through physical security measures around the deployment environments; however, over time these systems have been networked and made accessible either directly or indirectly on the internet. The new network availability of ICS has made them vulnerable to a whole new class of threats including: viruses, worms, trojans, and system exploitations from buffer overflows, logic errors, network protocols, and denial of service (DOS) attacks. Cyber attacks on these systems can disrupt service or deceive operators and lead to incorrect and dangerous actions. Protection from electronic, over the wire attacks is critical to the ongoing operation of this national resource.
Pikewerks Receives $1M Contract Enhancement to Develop Additional Software Protections
02.25.2010
Pikewerks Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for the development of advanced capabilities for detecting, preventing and responding to a variety of hardware based and hardware assisted attacks. This research and development will further strengthen software protection capabilities such as Electronic Armor® and Binary FortressTM.
Pikewerks Establishes a Special Operations Division
02.01.2010
Pikewerks announced today that Adam Fraser has been named Director of its newly-established Special Operations Division. Mr. Fraser comes to Pikewerks from the United States Air Force (USAF) 688th Information Operations Wing. Mr. Fraser has provided leadership, technical guidance and project management to network warfare squadrons, law enforcement, counterintelligence agencies, and combatant commands during his tenure at the USAF. He most recently served as the Chief of Network Access Engineering - where he led a 60-person team in offensive and defensive computer network warfare development and analysis for the 90th Information Operations Squadron. He has also served as a Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), as the Chief of Computer Investigations & Operations for AFOSI Det 253, and is an Adjunct Information Security and Privacy Professor at the University of Texas - San Antonio.
"Pikewerks is excited to have Adam join the company and help stand up the Special Operations Division," said Michael Ring, CEO of Pikewerks. "His leadership experience in intrusion response and engagement, malware analysis, and offensive network warfare capabilities will be an asset to the Company". Mr Fraser said, "I am honored that Pikewerks has entrusted me with establishing this new division. We have ambitious goals for the coming months, including plans to open an office in San Antonio, TX in the immediate future."
The newly-created Special Operations Division will provide technology development and field support for U.S. Cyber Command, the Air Force, and other government agencies. The Division's responsibilities cover three broad areas: capability development, training, and mission support. The establishment of this Division will enable Pikewerks to better support its customers' missions while continuing to be a leading provider of technical Cybersecurity and Information Operations capabilities.
Visit Pikewerks During the 2010 DOD Cyber Crime Conference
01.25.2010
Visit Pikewerks during the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, January 25-29. Pikewerks will host a booth during the exhibition and will be providing demonstrations of its volatile memory analysis product, Second LookTM. Second Look captures, and forensically preserves, a computer's volatile random-access memory (RAM). It analyzes the Linux operating system kernel in live memory or via a memory image, verifying its integrity and searching for signs of rootkits or other subversive software that have modified the executable kernel code or kernel data structures. Please contact the development team at secondlook@pikewerks.com for further details, or to receive an evaluation copy.
Pikewerks Awarded Air Force Contract to Create a Network Transformation Capability
01.22.2010
The first step an attacker takes when targeting a network is to perform pre-attack reconnaissance and gather intelligence about the systems. This information may include reachable hosts, open ports, firewalls and/or routers present, what rules govern traffic, and what operating systems are running on the machines. As the attackers expand their model of the target network, they can better identify its weak points and vulnerabilities.
Pikewerks Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a six-month contract from the Air Force to create a network transformation capability designed to dynamically change the location of running services, and continually obscure the host operating systems on a network. This new capability will assist in computer network defense by creating an ever-changing, self-mutating network architecture, which can further be hardened by software protection mechanisms such as Electronic Armor®.