Cloakware Teams With Prominent Security Experts as Edward Felten and Dan Wallach Join Advisory Board.Business Editors OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001 Cloakware Corporation, creators of an innovative security technology that renders software tamper resistant, today announced that Dr. Edward W. Felten and Dr. Dan Wallach have agreed to join the company's advisory board. Dr. Felten is an associate professor at Princeton and was the Department of Justice's only technical expert witness in the Microsoft antitrust case Noun 1. antitrust case - a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market place action at law, legal action, action - a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a . He is a leading operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and computer security researcher, and has published more than 50 research papers. He has won major awards including a National Young Investigator award and a Sloan Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. , and recently led a team that successfully hacked the Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, comprised of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the (SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five ) watermarking challenge. Dr. Wallach is an assistant professor at Rice University, studying the security of mobile code systems. He contributed to the design of Netscape's Java security architecture, and is a former graduate student of Dr. Felten. Dr. Wallach also participated in the successful hack of the SDMI watermarking challenge. "Protecting executable software See executable code. from hackers is a longstanding problem that is only becoming more important with the growth in e-commerce and mobile code such as Java," said Dr. Felten, who is also co-author of "Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code". "Cloakware's technology addresses this very pressing challenge and I'm excited to be working with Cloakware." Dr. Wallach commented, "Cloakware's tamper-resistant software technology is very promising and I'm impressed with the insight and approach of their technical team. I'm looking forward to working with Cloakware's technical team to make this a success." Fariborz (F.B.) Fallah, president and 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. of Cloakware, said, "We are honored to have Dr. Felten and Dr. Wallach join our advisory board, which is critical to the future success of the company. We have been working to attract leaders in high tech and the security industry, and are proud that Dr. Felten and Dr. Wallach have joined us. We will be announcing several additional appointments to our advisory board shortly." Cloakware's tamper-resistant software (TRS See traffic engineering methods. TRS - term rewriting system ) technology is a quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. forward from current software protection techniques. Historically, software has been vulnerable to tampering attacks because hackers can easily modify a program to do things it was not intended to do. This has meant that software deployed in hostile environments cannot be trusted to perform critical functions it was designed to perform. Cloakware's TRS technology applies complex transformations to software source code to convert it into a tamper-resistant form. TRS enables new architectures and lowers the cost of developing secure applications. It also offers portability and enables online upgrades of secure applications. Potential applications of the technology include Digital Rights Management (DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M ), mobile commerce, online gaming, Internet voting, and set-top boxes, as well as financial, government and military applications. Cloakware is believed to be the first company to commercialize such a technology. About Cloakware Cloakware (www.cloakware.com) is a privately owned company based in Ottawa, Canada. The company has developed an innovative security technology that extends trust to software deployed in hostile environments like the Internet. The company is embedding this technology in products, co-developing products, and manufacturing trusted software agents for leading security and systems OEMs. Cloakware's initial focus is on Digital Rights Management (DRM) market, which is developing and deploying systems that protect the rights of content owners on the Internet. |
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