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Steganalysis Tools Now Available on DOD EMALL
Countermeasure to Insider Use of Digital Steganography
PRESS RELEASE
February 22, 2007
FAIRMONT, WV - Backbone Security is pleased to announce the world-class steganalysis
tools developed in their Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC) are now
available on the DOD EMALL web site
http://www.emall.dla.mil
According to the Defense Logistics Agency DOD EMALL pamphlet, “The DOD EMALL strives
to be the single entry point for Department of Defense (DOD) and Federal buyers
& purchasers to shop for and buy off-the-shelf finished goods and services from
the commercial marketplace and government sources.”
DOD EMALL features include national and regional catalogs, secure online ordering,
easy registration, detailed product information, a powerful search engine, and a
paperless transaction to name a few. Multiple payment options are available, including
use of Government Purchase Card (GPC) and corporate credit cards for government
contractors.
“We are pleased and excited to have our state-of-the-art digital steganalysis tools
listed on the DOD EMALL,” said Glenn Watt, President and CEO of Backbone Security.
“Deploying countermeasures to the insider threat is a challenging task in any organization
but is a particularly daunting challenge in an organization the size of DOD. Considering
the sheer amount of national security sensitive information DOD must protect, use
of advanced technology to mitigate the insider threat is of paramount importance.
Our tools can be an effective countermeasure to one aspect of that threat—use of
digital steganography applications to steal sensitive or classified information.”
Please visit the DOD EMALL web site at
http://www.emall.dla.mil for additional information on registering for access
to the EMALL to purchase our digital steganalysis tools.
About the SARC - The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the worlds largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications.
About Backbone Security - In addition to the world class digital steganography research and development conducted in the SARC, Backbone is an Approved Scanning Vender (ASV) certified by the Payment Card Industry-(PCI) Security Standards Council to conduct automated PCI Data Security Standard compliance assessments with a One-Stop Scanning Solution.