Cyber Security
PacStar® Receives Hardware and Software Patent Awards
The US Patent Office recognizes PacStar’s continued innovation on its 400-Series interconnect system and IQ-Core® Software call diagnostics. This illustrates yet more technical progress and recognition at PacStar. While I was not involved in these inventions, I’m proud of the team none the less. See more…
Read MorePacStar Releases Software to Manage Commercial Solutions for Classified Systems
PacStar Announces Availability of IQ-Core Software CSfC Plug-in. New release automates and simplifies configuration and management of commercial networking equipment used to transmit classified information. Breaking new ground in the management of classified networks, PacStar just released to software to tame the complexity involved with VPN gateways, certificate authorities, PKI and network device configurations required to…
Read MoreIs Digital Currency a Bad Idea? -Bitcoin Heist Steals Millions from Exchange
As much as I’m a fan of new technology, like the newly developed currency exchange based in Toronto I’m falling in live with. After suffering personally through losses of my personal information in 10+ breaches (Target, Home Depot, Anthem, etc.), it seems like digital cash is a bad idea until we have fundamental improvements in…
Read MoreGalois Wins DHS Award to Combat Rising DDoS Attacks
Galois Awarded $1.7 Million Contract To Enable Peer-to-peer Collaboration. Source: DHS eyes new tech to combat rising DDoS attacks Portland, OR – January 11th, 2016 – Galois today announced it has been awarded a $1.7 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to create technology that is capable of defending…
Read MoreGalois wins DARPA funding for private data as a service
Portland company Galois, Inc. wins yet another large DARPA research contract to develop technologies that address yet another difficult computer science problem. In support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Brandeis program, the company’s Jana project will deliver a privacy service that protects data while retaining its utility for analysts. Source: Galois wins DARPA…
Read MoreGalois Announces Analyzer for Handling Runtime permissions in Android 6.0
Hey Mobile App Developers – Galois just announced a tool to help migrate apps to Android 6, while making the best use of the new Runtime Permissions feature. The Galois tool, Fuse Analyzer: Permissions, analyzes binary Andorid APKs to find the locations where you, as a developer, need to handle permissions more carefully in Android 6. The new Runtime Permissions…
Read MoreNIST Awards $1.86Mn IoT Privacy Grant to Galois/Tozny
Tozny, Inc a Portland-based company spun off from Galois, Inc., lands $1.86 million from NIST, in collaboration with Globe Sherpa and IOTAS to demonstrate privacy-enhancing information management/sharing technologies. The pilot will focus on allowing consumers to securely store and share private information across IoT-enabled smart homes and transportation systems. Source: NIST Awards $1.86Mn IoT…
Read MorePacStar Introduces Tactical Hypori ACE for Classified Mobility
PacStar is pleased to introduce the PacStar 451 with Hypori ACE Server, enabling new cutting edge use cases for the DoD, Coalition Partners and Intelligence Community. The PacStar 451 with Hypori ACE Server is a small form factor, ruggedized Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) platform that enables wireless access to apps running on the PacStar 451…
Read MorePacStar on a Roll! JITC Approved: PacStar 441 and 442 Tactical Communications Modules
PacStar’s on a roll, with more accreditations and an approvals for two of the core products in our deployable communications product family. Experts in the know just how much effort goes into this kind of thing. Announced yesterday: “PacStar is pleased to announce that the PacStar 441 Small Router Module and PacStar 442 Small Switch…
Read MorePacStar Shows Vanishing Small Wireless TOC
Today, at the AFCEA TechNet Augusta show, PacStar is unveiling our new NSA CSfC-based deployable wireless tactical operations technology demonstration system. Working closely with CSfC-leaders including Aruba Networks, Hypori, and Cisco Systems, we’ve developed a tactical solution that demonstrates technologies designed to transmit classified information over insecure wireless networks without the need for Type 1…
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