Counterstorm-1 wins Info Security Products Guide future technology award
Publication impressed by Counterstorm’s zero-hour attack detection system; hardware device lends a hand in early stages of an IT attack; company has also caught the attention of HSARPA
Counterstorm is one company we have had our eye on for some time. It makes only one product, but it makes it well: the Counterstorm-1, a hardware device designed to assist in the most vulnerable moments of a system attack, the zero-hour immediately after a breach but before the security team can identify the worm or virus, a problem particularly serious if the attack is based on insider information, i.e. a disgruntled former employee. Counterstorm-1 monitors activity using a unique three-pronged detection system: behavioral attack recognition, anomaly detection, and a dynamic “honeypot” for attracting attacks to observe hacker tactics.
All the hard work is starting to pay off. As we reported at the time, Counterstorm earlier this year earned two Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants from the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, for a total of $1.5 million in new funding.
In further news, the company announced yesterday that Info Security Products Guide, a leading publication on security-related technologies, has named Counterstorm-1 the winner of the 2006 Tomorrow’s Technology Award in recognition of “Their signatureless approach, deployment out-of-band on the network interior, and multi-detection technology [that] makes them an innovator in the next generation of intrusion prevention products,” according to editor Rick Justice.
Praise does not come much better than that.
-read more in this company press release; see also Info Security Products guide Web site
