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Backbone Security Announces Enhanced Insider Threat Detection Capability
Network Security Appliance Detects 725 Steganography Applications in Real-Time
PRESS RELEASE
May 18, 2009
FAIRMONT, WV - Backbone Security is pleased to announce the release of a new and
improved version of their Steganography Analyzer Real-Time Scanner, StegAlyzerRTS,
the only commercially available real-time steganography detection system in the
world.
Digital steganography is an Internet era version of an information hiding technique
that dates back to the days of Ancient Greece. Using digital steganography, a file
can be embedded within, or appended to, another file in such a way that it cannot
be seen or heard. Unlike cryptography, which translates information into an unintelligible
sequence of letters and numbers, steganography conceals the very existence of the
information.
The economic downturn has caused many insiders to become acutely aware of the value
of the information they work with on a day-to-day basis. The result: Insider theft
of sensitive information is increasing at an alarming pace. Insiders can use any
of the 1,000+ steganography applications available on the Internet as freeware or
shareware to steal personal identification information or intellectual property,
for example. The current generation of network security appliances does not detect
insider use of steganography.
StegAlyzerRTS v3.0, developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research
Center (SARC), detects insiders downloading any of the 725 digital steganography
applications currently in the SARC’s library of steganography applications. Detecting
this type of insider activity is an early warning indicator the insider is planning
to steal sensitive information.
The SARC’s analytical approach to detecting steganography also gives StegAlyzerRTS
the capability to detect insiders using a subset of the applications through a unique
signature-based detection model.
According to Bart Guerreri, Founder and CEO of Backbone Security, “Organizations
with sensitive information and intellectual property to protect, such as those in
the financial, electronics, and pharmaceutical sectors, to name just a few, must
acknowledge the threat from insider use of digital steganography to steal intellectual
property or other sensitive or proprietary information. Deployment of a real-time
steganography detection capability can be an effective countermeasure to that threat.”
StegAlyzerRTS is available for $14,995.00 from Backbone Security and our business
partners worldwide.
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.