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Arxceo's Anti-Reconnaissance Security Appliance Turns the Table on Cyber Specialists at Engineering Conference.


HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Arxceo[R] Corporation, a provider of anti-reconnaissance and anomaly behavioral-based attack prevention technology, demonstrated its Ally ip100[TM] security appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances.  during the Digital Combat Exercise (DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. ) held at the 2007 Southeastern Software & Systems Engineering Conference (SE)3on March 12-15 in Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville is the largest city in northern Alabama in a region of a half-million people, with the city proper having 168,132 residents (2006 estimate). . The Ally ip100 performed flawlessly by camouflaging the network and frustrating attackers with anti-reconnaissance false positives. Unlike the false positives that network administrators are usually faced with, these false positives confuse, deter and mislead the attacker and cause them to loose valuable time.

Among the experts analyzing Arxceo's defense were researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. GTRI employs around 1,300 people, and is involved in approximately $100 million in research annually for more than 200 clients in industry , which fielded an "attack team" that participated in the digital exercise designed to engage cyber specialists in launching digital attacks on networks with varying levels of security. The Georgia Tech Research Institute team said Arxceo's Ally ip100 is likely to be very effective in deterring hackers from attacking a network or server.

Arxceo's Ally ip100[TM] is an easy-to-install, low-cost, low-maintenance solution designed for small businesses, branch offices and departments hoping to avoid zero-day attacks, Denial of Service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack.  (DOS) attacks, or to keep safe from hackers and corporate espionage breaches. The Ally ip100 creates an offensive, always-on defense that prevents attackers from using even a single packet to probe the network for vulnerabilities. Arxceo's Ally ip100 defense was the least expensive security device integrated into the Digital Combat Exercise.

"We were asked to make this easier than the last Digital Combat Exercise, as all the teams were frustrated and unable to get any information about devices behind our appliance. This year, we provided the IP address of the unprotected Webserver and told them there were at least two default services running on their standard ports with easy-to-guess passwords," said Don Davidson, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Arxceo. "In order to simplify the process even further and make it a learning experience, we provided the teams with our literature and towards the end of the lengthy exercise; we turned off our blacklisting feature."

James Chaloupka, Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute, stated, "Arxceo's Ally ip100 really turned the tables on us. Our penetration and hacking tools were giving us lots of false positives - leading us down bogus avenues and wasting our time as we attempted to crack various wide-open services that turned out not to exist."

Arxceo's Tag-UR-IT technology confuses reconnaissance results of attackers. Arxceo's Ally ip100 anti-reconnaissance device prevents the spread of worms across the different segments of a network and fortifies network protocols, eliminating abuses such as covert channeling, DNS cache poisoning Injecting false information into the caches of the DNS system so that future requests are diverted to another site. In July 1997, Eugene Kashpureff inserted fraudulent information into the DNS, causing users going to the Network Solutions Web site to be rerouted to his Alternic site. , fragmented packet 'exploit injections' and raw-frame Ethernet data leak transmissions. The Ally transparently authenticates end-user TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end.  connections without client software to communicate or authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate.

(2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered.
 the session. This authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC.

(2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network.
 eliminates address spoofing (1) Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system. See e-mail spoofing.

(2) Creating fake responses or signals in order to keep a session active and prevent timeouts.
, a common method used in both network reconnaissance and network attacks - including Denial of Service abuses.

About Arxceo[R] Corporation

Arxceo provides anti-reconnaissance and anomaly behavioral-based, attack-prevention appliances that help secure networks from information gathering, vulnerability exploitation, zero-day worm attacks and other malicious network traffic. Arxceo's patented Plug and Protect and Tagged Universal Resource Information Transmission technologies combine to provide the world's best anti-reconnaissance layer -- preventing attackers from mining vulnerabilities to exploit. After passing through this layer, Arxceo's unique anomaly and behavior-based zero-day attack prevention engines monitor and stop attacks effectively without the use of any signatures. Arxceo is now a JCI JCI Journal of Clinical Investigation
JCI Johnson Controls, Inc.
JCI Junior Chamber International
JCI Joint Commission International
JCI Japan Concrete Institute
JCI Journal of Communication Inquiry
JCI Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited
 Group Company. JCI is a world-leading wireless data solution provider servicing enterprises and individuals requiring secure data communication. For more information, visit www.arxceo.com.

Arxceo, Tag-UR-IT, Ally IP1000, Ally ip100, Plug and Protect, and the Arxceo Logo are trademarks of Arxceo Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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