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Promia Incorporated, a developer of IT Security products for Federal, State
and Commercial accounts, announced the commercial availability of
its Intelligent Agent Security Manager (IASM) system.
The government and commercial versions of the IASM system are both designed
to
provide information analysis and protection for high-speed grid distributed
network segments (i.e., enclaves) with regional and global command and control
capabilities.
This version of the IASM system is based on a recent product that was built
jointly with the U.S. Navy -- Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)
under Small Business Innovation Research Agreements (Navy SBIRs), and under
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with the U.S.
National Security Agency and UC Davis. Partial funding was acquired from the
U.S. Navy's Information Systems Security Program at the request of both the
U.S. House of Representatives Republican Cyber Security Caucus and the U.S.
House of Representatives leadership.
In addition, both versions are designed to address problems found in the
current generation of intrusion detection devices, including the accuracy of
attack identification, generation of high volumes of false alarms, and the
inability to detect new types of attacks.
The IASM is a supercomputer level system that uses a CORBA secure component
architecture. This architecture is designed to manage accurately and
consistently the detection and validation of internally and externally
generated network incidents. The IASM system detects known attacks using
various techniques to correlate single and multiple events, while novel
attacks are detected using advanced analytic techniques, including fuzzy
logic, to identify aberrant behavioral patterns.
The IASM system also includes a visualization component that is designed to
encourage the rapid understanding of complex events with selectable levels of
responses suitable to the needs of the U.S. Navy and other branches of the
U.S. Government. This visualization component may be readily adapted to
commercial sector architecture requirements. The IASM system is currently
being deployed to the Navy, and is scheduled for commercial shipments at the
end of June 2003.
Within the IASM system, Promia has integrated powerful knowledge
engineering
tools with a knowledge database so that it may manage and enhance the analytic
techniques from human Network Security Analysts. In addition, high-performance
grid cluster machines, similar to the supercomputing platforms
developed at NASA, are used to support the IASM analytic modules at high
speeds.
"We incorporate knowledge from our analysis of large amounts of network
data,
Promia Cyber Warfare Laboratory clean-room experiments, and human expert
experience to identify known attack patterns," said Promia's vice president of
Analytic Development, Raymond T. Granvold. He added, "The IASM system includes
advanced anomalous assessment engines to detect new or previously unknown
patterns in high speed data networks."
Promia's President and CEO, John Mullen, stated "We are not only pleased
with
our progress in developing the IASM system for commercial sector use, we are
also pleased that Unisys Corporation has agreed to partner with Promia through
a reseller agreement that was executed last September. Unisys has hundreds of
trained security consultants, analysts, and sales representatives who are
being trained to sell and support the IASM system."
About Promia Incorporated
Promia, Incorporated is a leading developer and supplier of distributed
object
and component security tools, based on open standard components with advanced
analytic capabilities, to the US Government and Fortune 1000 markets. Its
products are used in environments requiring high security, high reliability,
high performance, and scalability.
Promia's core competencies include expertise in a wide range of computer
programming languages, databases, security architectures and technologies,
security assurance and evaluation, communications protocols, hardware devices,
artificial intelligence techniques, data and application integration and
distributed data networks. Since the early 1990's, Promia has been in the
forefront of developing software infrastructure solutions based on
object-oriented technology and open standards, most particularly CORBA, for
organizations worldwide.
Based in San Francisco, Promia also has offices in Princeton, NJ, Davis,
California, and Linthicum, Maryland.
http://www.promia.com
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