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Pikewerks Overview for CDCA April 24 th , 2009

Pikewerks Overview for CDCA April 24 th , 2009. Irby Thompson, Vice President i.thompson@pikewerks.com 256-325-0010. The Company. Mission: Encourage a creative research and development environment that fosters the production of innovative software security technologies

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Pikewerks Overview for CDCA April 24 th , 2009

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  1. Pikewerks Overviewfor CDCAApril 24th, 2009 Irby Thompson, Vice President i.thompson@pikewerks.com 256-325-0010

  2. The Company • Mission: Encourage a creative research and development environment that fosters the production of innovative software security technologies • Technology Focus: Become a demonstrated leader in the security industry by providing state-of-the-art cyber security, information operations, software anti-tamper, anti-piracy, forensics, and information assurance solutions

  3. Corporate • Woman-owned small business located in Huntsville, AL • Self-funded, no outside investment or venture capital • 30 employees, 27 of which are engineers/developers • Roots in intelligence community, significant operational experience • Skilled in the architecture, design, and development of software security, anti-tamper technologies, forensics, information assurance, and information operations • Projecting 50+ in 12-18 months • Creative and innovative team • 100% Track record with Phase I to Phase II technology transfer & development • All Phase II efforts beyond 1st year of development have been commercialized • Currently operating at the Secret in Huntsville, AL and Washington, DC

  4. Technology • Advanced Research & Development • Electronic Armor®: Kernel-based Software Protection • Cryptographic Coprocessor Software Partitioning • Real Time EA (RedHawk and VxWorks) • Binary Fortress™: Hypervisor-based Software Protection • Second Look™ Live Memory Forensics • Red-team Instrumentation & Counterintelligence (CI) Scan Agent • Akita™: Software Situational Awareness • Self-healing and Active Defense Research & Development • Anti-forensic Research & Development • Cross-platform Digital Rights Management • Network Watermarking • Information Operations Tools & Techniques • Early Stage Research & Development • Secure and Covert Loading Phase I • IPV4 to IPV6 Phase I • Missile Defense Agency Anti-Tamper Phase I

  5. Products Electronic Armor EA for Unix/Linux Individual Executable up to Full System Cryptographic Coprocessor Software Partitioning Real Time EA (RedHawk and VxWorks) EA for Windows Binary Fortress EA : Aware Situational Awareness - Environmental Based Key Generation TBD Self-healing and Active Defense Cross-platform Digital Rights Management Network Watermarking Second Look Live Memory Analysis Red Team Instrumentation Counter Intelligence (CI) Scan Agent Persistent Forensics Tool Windows Live Memory Analysis

  6. Specialized R&D Efforts • Information Operations • Classified • Mobile devices • Windows Mobile 5/6 • Linux/Symbian/Palm • Data collection, protection, and situational awareness • Miscellaneous • Reverse engineering and red teaming • Anti-tamper • Active defense

  7. Opportunities Technology Licensing: Adoption of Pikewerks R&D as a layer into your programs and initiatives Electronic Armor® Second Look™ Other Products/Tools/Capabilities Future R&D: Team with Pikewerks to create the next generation of information assurance, anti-tamper, information operations, and forensics solutions SBIRs BAAs Other Sponsored R&D IR&D efforts

  8. QUESTIONS? Thank You! www.pikewerks.com info@pikewerks.com 256-325-0010

  9. Electronic Armor® “Designed to protect software applications from reverse engineering, tamper, theft, and unauthorized execution” • Features • Application source code is NOT needed, protects standard executables, shared libraries, and full systems • Operates at the kernel-level; preventing attacks from even privileged insiders • Little to no impact of application performance • Benefits • Protected applications are encrypted on disk and while in system memory • Copying, debugging, tracing, tampering and dumping of protected application prevented • Applications are cryptographically ‘tied’ to the specific deployment machine

  10. EA Components • Packaging Utility: • Encrypts and transforms binaries, shared libraries, scripts, data, or entire Operating Systems (OS) distributions • Execution Enabler: • Processes and executes the protected applications during system operation • Kernel Sealer • Verifies and maintains the integrity of the OS kernel from malicious attack

  11. Binary Fortress • Custom Hypervisor-based Software Protection • Extends kernel protection approach to a privilege level below the Operating System • Operates on hardware platforms that support Intel VT-x • Provides secure data and key storage, decryption, and partial out-out-of-band execution • Secure against kernel attacks • Twelve months of R&D • Final release 4Q 2009 • Early adopters received an advanced release 1Q 2009

  12. Situational Awareness • Establishes a digital fingerprint of live system • Monitors and analyzes system /environmental conditions • Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) • Hard disk SMART statistics • User and system information • Network topology • Geographic location (GPS) • Detect changes in the operating environment • Take appropriate defensive/offensive actions to protect sensitive applications on the system • Forces the attacker to the field to find key material • Final release 4Q 2009 • Early adopters will receive an advanced release 2Q 2009

  13. Second Look™ Forensics • Wide range of target sources • Live systems (/dev/mem, firewire, etc) • Snapshots • raw physical memory dumps • hibernated system images • Kernel memory analysis • Detects hidden modules • Detects hidden processes • Verifies integrity of the kernel and modules • Discovers discrepancies in resources • Identifies potential rootkit patch points • Support for interactive debugging and reverse engineering • Soon to be expanded to incorporate the Pikewerks custom hypervisor • 16 Months of R&D (TRL 5) • Related enhancement and Phase III activities • Counterintelligence Scan Agent • BIOS integrity verification • Red Team Instrumentation • Persistent memory forensics

  14. CI Scan Agent • Extension of Second Look™ forensics R&D • Agent for counter-intelligence investigations and espionage discovery • Stealthy, software-based memory collection and analysis • Automated detection and alerting of advanced computer espionage techniques • Centralized data collection & storage • Cross-host comparison and analysis • Reporting & alert generation ***System*** PIKEWERK-490883 Windows XP Professional, X86 Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Number of processors 2 Page size 4096 ***End System*** ***Process*** Base Size Module Name 804D7000 2142208 \WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe 806E2000 134400 \WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll ***End Process*** ***Network*** Active Connections TCP 490883:epmap 490883:26743 LISTENING TCP 490883:microsoft-ds 490883:24804 LISTENING TCP 490883:1025 490883:39070 LISTENING IPv4 Statistics Packets Received = 381291 ***End Network*** ***User*** Administrator Administrator, password does not expire billy Administrator, password does not expire ***End User*** ***IDT*** IDT[0] INT gate (32bit) 0x80541190 (module \WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe) IDT[1] INT gate (32bit) 0x8054130c (module \WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe) ***End IDT*** ***Hypervisor*** OS Running within Virtual PC: no ***End Hypervisor***

  15. Red Team Instrumentation • Extension of the Second Look™ forensics R&D • Record and analyze actions taken by a Red Team in near real time • Collection of assessment data to evaluate protection and attack tools • Eight months of R&D Virtual machine running protected software Gumstix Remote attacker Host running a debugger American Arium debugger Debugging station

  16. Autonomic Healing • Distributed Host Healing and Active Defense • System discovery, monitoring, healing and defense • Forces attackers to reach all machines at once • Networks work together to defeat exploitation attempts including reverse engineering attacks, viruses, and rootkits • Application Self-healing and Active Defense • Extends software protection • Performs checksums of the protected applications • Replaces modified application segments with clean copies • Can dynamically change the behavior of a tampered application to perform penalties or adapt decoys for specific attack scenarios • System Management Mode (SMM) monitor • Custom AMI/Award/Phoenix BIOS enhancement • Small form factor FPGA uses Direct Memory Access (DMA) • Continual off-host monitoring and repair of memory • Can be used to remove/inject key material • Six months of R&D

  17. Anti-Forensic Technologies

  18. Network Watermarking • Transparent authentication of network traffic integrity for the Global Information Grid (GIG) • Invisible watermarking of digital data for dissemination and authentication • Host-based network driver and Single Board Computer (SBC) bump-in-wire bridge to apply and authenticate machine-specific watermarks to incoming and outgoing network traffic streams • Final release 1Q 2010 • Seeking deployment scenarios Physical AT wrap enclosure

  19. Data Rights Enforcement “Cross-Platform Digital Rights Management” • Encrypts and Protects Data Files • Disposable Public-Key Cryptography provides forward-security of documents • Ideal for multi-level security of data • Ongoing integration with existing / adopted pedigree system • Controls Operating System Capabilities • Data Rights Enforcement Module restricts the unauthorized ability to copy, print, redistribute protected data • Provides Key Escrow • Rights Management Server allows for ongoing control and auditing of data access

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