If the assumption is made that your people are trusted, how can one ensure that the systems on which they depend can also be trusted? This is only possible with advanced hardware & software integration. While important to many of Metaforic's Enterprise & Consumer market customers it is vital when applied to Defense Systems.
Metaforic has developed a suite of products designed specifically to allow only those actions as envisaged and authorized by the software originators to be performed and to ensure that any attempts to subvert this aim are prevented. Metaforic grants users a new level of trust in their systems and confidence in operational performance. This can only occur when trust is maintained throughout the software stack and linked directly to the hardware on which it runs.
Defense systems today are protected physically, as well as by having a variety of Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) installed. These are designed to protect against a range of known physical and cyber-threats.
However, the “opposition” are generally very bright and inventive people. They have access to the latest information, thanks to the Internet and may glean further intelligence from other sources. All of which can allow them to build penetration scenarios un-anticipated by the originators of traditional NIDS which rely on databases of known attack techniques - similar to a home PC virus checker.
If the attack is sophisticated enough it may not be recognized by the NIDS database and thus the system can be penetrated. The attacker need only know what is on the defenders’ database and build a single new subversive attack to succeed. NIDS databases are also susceptible to accidental changes, whether manual or automated. These in turn create new vulnerabilities.
Metaforic hardens Embedded and Defense systems against these vulnerabilities creating a state of “information assurance” by the application of MetaFortress anti-tamper and MetaSure “hardware finger-printing” technology thus providing a powerful anti-penetration defense.
The aim of all Metaforic products is to bring trust to users’ systems and to render them hardened against both known and, more importantly, unknown attacks.
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Information Week reported that in 2010, AV-Test found almost 20M unique malware samples, growing at a 50% CAGR, illustrating the trend towards customized breaches that resist signature detection.
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