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Back to Company SearchWETSTONE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Address
20 Thornwood Drive Suite 105Ithaca, NY, 14850
USA
UEI: JGTUJC2AVMC4
Number of Employees: 18
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
SBIR/STTR Involvement
Year of first award: 2000
5
Phase I Awards
2
Phase II Awards
40%
Conversion Rate
$349,581
Phase I Dollars
$1,467,133
Phase II Dollars
$1,816,714
Total Awarded
Awards
Neural ANOVA Information Leak Shunt (NAILS)
Amount: $99,995 Topic: OSD08-T001
The proliferation and sophistication of malicious code today is staggering. Within hours of the discovery of a new vulnerability, related exploits appear. Furthering the problem, virus protection methods are becoming less effective in detecting or responding to even known exploits due to the polymorphic and metaphoric nature of advanced malicious code. In many cases these exploits already exist and go undetected in already infective hosts, are opportunistically leaking information without detection, or they lay dormant awaiting activation. Once activated, these technologies look for opportunities to steal and leak vital information, and/or disrupt operations at the most critical time. Current solutions fall short in detecting malware information leakage behavior post infection. An effective solution needs to be scoped correctly to address the information leakage problem. It needs to work with both currently available as well as future distributed systems and that it need to be adaptable as well as extendable to new threats as they emerge. We shall produce a SELF verses OTHER approach to information leakage detection by leveraging and applying proven aspects of previous work including ontology creation, ANOVA analysis, neural network generation and automated network control, toward the specific goal of detecting and shunting information leakage.
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase I
2008
DOW
ARMY
Data Authentication and Dissemination using Watermarking for Net-Centric Operations
Amount: $99,988 Topic: OSD07-I07
The Global Information Grid will require new IA technologies to be developed before it can reach its full potential and before the complete IA architecture can be realized. Existing security technologies and standards are inherently loosely coupled with the information they protect. There exists a temporal constraint on the extent to which data can be protected since, at some point, sensitive or protected content will be stored, viewed, or processed when it is outside of the protective boundaries of encryption, signing, and other security mechanisms. We propose to deploy watermarking technologies to the Information Assurance domain in order to tightly couple security attributes with data. Our approach is to adapt existing watermarking algorithms such that they can be deployed within an enterprise system to fulfill integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation services. It is envisaged that using watermarks to bind security services to data will extend the Information Assurance capabilities of a system beyond what is current deployed today.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2007
DOW
USAF
Biometric Liveness Authentication Development Environment (BLADE) - Live Check
Amount: $749,112 Topic: AF04-123
Biometric technologies have advanced rapidly over the past few years and are increasing steadily in popularity and deployment. In particular, fingerprint biometrics are being integrated to protect our nations critical infrastructure. Public and private industries, along with government agencies, are rapidly implementing biometric identification as part of their overall security policy. The International Biometrics Group projects that fingerprint revenues will grow from $198 million in 2003 to $1.493 billion in 2008, compromising 32% of the entire biometrics market. The objective of this Phase II effort is to develop fingerprint biometric liveness detection software that provides detection against potential attacks targeting our nation’s biometric infrastructure. This software will be directly integrated into the current install-base via driver updates by the manufacturers and bundled with the newest deployments.. Specifically, during Phase II we will expand the scope, depth and breadth of the validation checks currently being employed by the Phase I Biometric Liveness Authentication Development Environment, (BLADE) Proof of Concept. We will also integrate the resulting technology into multiple Identix biometric fingerprint technologies to demonstrate the ease with which the install base can be updated and new devices can be introduced..
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2005
DOW
USAF
Biometric Liveness Authentication Development Environment (BLADE)
Amount: $99,843 Topic: AF04-123
Our ability to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of biometric devices deployed in mission critical environments is of paramount importance. In order to rapidly develop and deploy new testing and validation methods we must create a development environment that combines a sophisticated set of software tools with a carefully crafted database of sample biometric templates (both legitimate and imposters). This database will be generated from a broad demographic base and be accessible via a plug and play interface of both legacy and state-of-the-art biometric devices. The BLADE provides a secure and extensible environment for the advancement and development of sophisticated methods and techniques for rapidly advancing the state-of-the-art in biometric liveness testing.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2004
DOW
USAF
Trusted Network Time for Defensive Information Warfare (TNT for DIW)
Amount: $0
In many Defensive Information Warfare (DIW) situations, absolute and trusted time is a crucial aspect of information operations. As information, manipulation, storage and transmittal becomes more time dependent, whether the need is for the coordination ofinformation warfare systems, the protection of the national infrastructure, or the integrity of e-commerce operations, the problem remains the same. We need accurate and trusted time. A large number of diverse areas, such as automated data recordingsystems, computer-controlled systems, computer networks, air traffic control, radio astronomy, broadcasts, geodesy, and radio and TV networks, also depend on accurate time. In addition, many applications require not only accurate time, but also reliabletime stamps to be used as legal evidence that digital data existed at a given time. In other words, an electronic document must be stamped by a trusted time source.Under this effort WetStone Technologies will be advancing the state-of-the-art by first developing a FIPS certified Time Stamp Authority (TSA) that will integrate into a global trusted time infrastructure. The TSA is targeted for integration into militarydefensive information warfare infrastructures and a wide range of commercial e-commerce applications.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2001
DOW
USAF
Trusted Network Time for Defensive Information Warfare (TNT for DIW)
Amount: $718,021
In many Defensive Information Warfare (DIW) situations, absolute and trusted time is a crucial aspect of information operations. As information, manipulation, storage and transmittal becomes more time dependent, whether the need is for the coordination ofinformation warfare systems, the protection of the national infrastructure, or the integrity of e-commerce operations, the problem remains the same. We need accurate and trusted time. A large number of diverse areas, such as automated data recordingsystems, computer-controlled systems, computer networks, air traffic control, radio astronomy, broadcasts, geodesy, and radio and TV networks, also depend on accurate time. In addition, many applications require not only accurate time, but also reliabletime stamps to be used as legal evidence that digital data existed at a given time. In other words, an electronic document must be stamped by a trusted time source.Under this effort WetStone Technologies will be advancing the state-of-the-art by first developing a FIPS certified Time Stamp Authority (TSA) that will integrate into a global trusted time infrastructure. The TSA is targeted for integration into militarydefensive information warfare infrastructures and a wide range of commercial e-commerce applications.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2001
DOW
USAF