Huntsville, Ala., June 4, 2014 — Sentar Corporation announced today that it will be demonstrating its newest technology for identifying and analyzing malware at the 6th annual North Alabama Cyber Security Summit held at the Von Braun Center this week. Sentar Corporation is a Huntsville-based Women-Owned Small Business specializing in Cyber Security Research and Technology, Information Assurance processes and services and Intel.
Sentar is a Gold Level Sponsor at this year’s show and will be providing interactive demonstrations of various technologies developed under a range of Research & Development initiatives. Technologies that will be shown include KnoRisk (previously called, VeriScan), a suite of Static Application Security Testing tools and technology and ViEX, an interactive Malware Classification engine that uses machine learning algorithms and the first ever Spatial Voting methodology, developed under DARPA’s Cyber Genome Program, which was created to fund further development of this approach in January 2010.
ViEX, pronounced “Views”, is deceptively simple to use. Any user can submit suspected malware to the Sentar ViEX database at “HTTP://ViEX.Sentar.com”. Once submitted, the malware is processed into various unique physical attributes for spatial analysis and similarity voting to generate a comparison against a known truth malware database.
Simply put, like a teenager hanging around a bad crowd, if the unknown binary appears clustered within a group of known malware, it is highly likely to also be malicious. However, ViEX also provides additional analysis capabilities that can quickly show a malware analyst what other various commonalities the suspect binary shares with the closest files to it. This information is shown on one view and provides valuable forensic evidence, such as common DLLs, APIs and Ascii Strings that are shared among them.
About the N.A. Cyber Security Summit
The North Alabama Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (NAC-ISSA) and Cyber Huntsville hosts the annual Cyber Security Summit annually. The NAC-ISSA is North Alabama’s premiere technical institution for cyber security and Cyber Huntsville is the organization creating synergy between all government, industry, and academia in the Tennessee Valley for cyber related fields.
About Sentar Corporation
Sentar is a Women-Owned Small Business at the forefront of cyber security technology and services. Sentar’s core competency is supporting critical decision making in the Cyber Security domain. Sentar does this by combining Subject Matter Expertise (SME), gained through many years of work securing fielded Mission Critical Systems with processes and methodologies developed to support Decision Makers, and leading edge technology innovations, using Ontologies, agents, knowledge/information management methods. Sentar has been in business since 1990 and has supported the Army, Air Force, Navy, DARPA, NASA, MDA, OSD, CYBERCOM and various commercial clients. Sentar’s Technology solutions have provided leading edge developments in information and knowledge exchange and management—applied extensively to Cyber Security and Decision Support domains resulting in Cyber Network Defense (CND) capabilities being fielded into programs of record.