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100kb of Unusual Code Protecting Nuclear, ATC and United Nations Systems
An anonymous reader writes: For an ex-academic security company still in the seeding round, startup Abatis has a small but interesting roster of clients, including Lockheed Martin, the Swiss military, the United Nations and customers in the civil nuclear and air traffic control sectors. The company's product, a kernel driver compatible with Windows, Linux and Unix, occupies just 100kb with no dependencies, and reportedly achieves a 100% effectiveness rate against intruders by preventing unauthorized I/O activity. The CEO of Abatis claims, "We can stop zero day malware — the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns." The software requires no use of signature files, white-listing, heuristics or sandboxing, with a separate report from Lockheed Martin confirming very significant potential for energy savings — up to £125,000 per year in a data center with 10,000 servers.
It just automatically turns the machine off whenever you power it on! Foolproof!
But there is RFC for this already: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
I have this explosives detector I'd like to know if you're interested in. It's used by the Iraqi government...
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Come on, of course 100% detection rate is possible! We don't know about any threats it doesn't detect!
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bool isThreatDetected(IoRequest req) { // Caveat: may cause false positives
return true;
}
// In practice, any claims that software is this effective require detailed, convincing explanation and proof.
John_Chalisque
Its a network driver that doesn't work. No network activity, ergo 100% security against network-bourne threats!
See, I should have been in marketing!