Fidelis Security Systems Teams with Backbone Security to Provide Further Defense-In-Depth for Evolving Cyber Threats
Combined Offering Provides Detection & Prevention of Steganography
WALTHAM, MA & FAIRMONT, WV – April 20, 2010– Fidelis Security Systems, the market leader in comprehensive information protection solutions for the prevention of data breaches, today announced a partnership with Backbone Security, a world class digital steganography research and development company, to give Fidelis’ customers the ability to detect the applications used to create steganography on their networks.
Steganography is a method of obscuring information by hiding it within another file. Instead of protecting data the way encryption does, steganography hides the very existence of the data and it is undetectable under traditional traffic-pattern analysis. Steganography is most often used for malicious purposes such as stealing information or concealing criminal or terrorist activity. Steganography applications are used to hide information in a file by appending it to, or embedding it within, another file.
Through this partnership and technology integration, Fidelis’ flagship session-level network security solution, Fidelis XPS™, will be capable of analyzing and detecting steganography applications through Backbone’s Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB). SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially available hash set exclusive to digital steganography applications and can be used to determine whether files traversing the network can be associated with a particular digital steganography or other data-hiding application. Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB contains seven different fingerprints, or hash values, of each file artifact associated with all 812 digital steganography applications in the database.
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