Pikewerks receives contract to Automate Collection and Analysis of Assessment Data
04.28.2008
Pikewerks Corporation, a leading provider of computer security products and research, announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the United States Air Force for red team instrumentation. Pikewerks is currently developing pH5TM, a product that provides kernel-level forensics and debugging. This new funding will expand pH5TM to collect and analyze red team assessment data, and instrument such data for input into an attack modeling and prediction program.
Sandy Ring speaks on Insider Threat at NCMS/DSS conference
04.10.2008
Pikewerks' founder, Sandy Ring, is an invited speaker at the NCMS/DSS (Society for Industrial Security Professionals and Defense Security Services) 9th Annual Regional Seminar, 10 April 2008. The purpose of the seminar is to help educate security professionals to advance the protection practices of industrial security, information security, and intellectual property. Ms. Ring will be speaking on the awareness, prevention, and detection of Insider Threat, one of the biggest dangers to National Security.
Pikewerks Receives $1.5M to Develop Software Protection Products
Advanced Security Software Protects Intellectual Property and Corporate Assets
02.01.2008
Huntsville, Ala., February 1, 2008 - Pikewerks Corporation, a leading provider of computer security products and research, announced today that it has been awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contracts for the development of advanced software protection technologies. The contracts are valued at $1.5M and were awarded by the United States Air Force. Adding to the related funding Pikewerks received last year, these contracts will strengthen the company's research focus on developing innovative software security products for anti-tampering and situational awareness.
The first SBIR Phase II contract provides funds to research and expand Pikewerks' anti-tampering security product for Linux and Solaris, called Electronic ArmorTM, to the Microsoft® Windows XP and Vista platforms using hypervisor-based virtualization. With this effort, Electronic Armor will protect Linux, Solaris, and Windows binary executables from piracy, reverse engineering, and tampering - all of which can incur serious threats to government security and severe financial loss of corporate assets.
Pikewerks' original technology has proven that highly secure protection can be achieved without performance degradation. Protecting applications and other computer programs in this fashion provides realizable value and delivers significant financial return to customers.
The second contract provides for the development of a software-based situational awareness capability for commercial hardware. Today, Pikewerks is developing cutting edge situational awareness technologies to link software protection rules to physical events, creating a computer that is aware of its environment and can choose to take action based on physical modifications, or changes in user behavior. For instance, a computer in an office may not allow a secure application to run if it has detected a new network connection or other hardware modification, such as loss of power, hard drive changes and moving the machine to another location.
"By incorporating environmental characteristics, Pikewerks can further increase the strength of its protection schemes to limit execution of software to specific geographic locations," said Sandy Ring, founder and CEO. "Pikewerks is committed to continuing its R&D efforts for advanced security software and expects to commercialize this research into new products in the first half of 2009."
Pikewerks Wins Four New SBIR Phase I Contracts
09.01.2007
Pikewerks Corporation is pleased to announce that it has been selected for four new SBIR Phase 1 contracts. The research and development for these contracts will be in the following areas: Anti-Forensics as a Countermeasure to Software Piracy and Reverse Engineering, Autonomic Kernel Protections to Reduce Attack Susceptibility, Data Authentication and Dissemination Using Watermarking and Cross Platform Digital Rights Management. Additional information will be available in early 2008 on the product lines that will evolve from these efforts.
Huntsville Times Features Pikewerks Corporation
08.10.2007
Serious work and play
Friday, August 10, 2007
By GINA HANNAH
Times Business Writer gina.hannah@htimes.com
Pikewerks protects IT systems from hackers, helps detect intruders
Just because Pikewerks develops software that accomplishes some pretty serious tasks doesn't mean its employees take life too seriously.
Take the brightly painted walls of the company's downtown Madison office. Or the Foosball table flanked by two leather sofas, just a few feet from a wall-mounted wooden cabinet that houses a dart board.
"We're just trying to do something a little creative," said Sandy Ring, founder and president of Pikewerks.
Pikewerks develops software that secures information technology systems from hackers who would try to get into company networks. Its products help keep an intruder from taking product secrets and using them to copy and sell pirated versions. Pikewerks also writes software that can help the user detect and analyze intruders.
Pikewerks Wins Forensics Contract
07.24.2007
On July 24th Pikewerks was awarded a two year contract from the Department of Defense to develop a forensics capability. The end product, pH5TM, will be available for early adopters starting March 2008.
Pikewerks Breaks Ground for New Lab at Providence
07.18.2007
Computer security firm opens lab in Providence
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
From staff reports
Huntsville Times
Pikewerks Corp. is opening a research and development lab at The Village of Providence.
The company held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning.
Pikewerks is a small business specializing in advanced research and development of computer security software and applications for government and commercial customers.
Since locating in Huntsville in 2006, Pikewerks said it has experienced dramatic growth and now employs 12 field specialists. The company forecasts continued rapid growth as it continues to commercialize its computer security products.
Sandy Ring, founder and CEO of Pikewerks, has more than 10 years of experience in developing computer security solutions.
"This new lab will be a great place for our developers to work," Ring said. "We are excited about locating in this unique setting and believe that this will set us apart as we continue to recruit new talent to this community.
"We are excited about this opportunity to expand our presence in Huntsville and provide cutting-edge computer security solutions to our customers."