SBIR/STTR Research Award
Software Protection via Alternative Mode Execution
Award amount
$99,030Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-06-20
- Contract end date
- 2008-12-20
- UEI
- PPEKTM9CTAJ3
- Solicitation number
- 2008.1
- Topic code
- OSD08-IA2
Research abstract
This project will examine the feasibility of using alternative modes of execution on x86 processors as a means of providing protection for sensitive applications. The research will aim to answer two main questions: 1) can alternate modes of execution provide an environment that is suitable for running an application; and 2) do these modes provide a better level of protection or isolation for the application then what is afforded by the Operating System (OS). Part of this study will also include a detailed examination of the differences between processor modes to identify differences in the observed runtime environment provided to an application (i.e. 16-bit vs. 32-bit operand size, physical vs. virtual addressing, etc).
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Extendable Sensor-software Platform for Detection, Classification, and Tracking of UAS (DeteCT )
- Discovering Inconsistencies and Changes for Knowledge Enrichment in Networked Semantics (DICKENS)
- Secure Synthetic Data via Text Diffusion Models
- Multi-modal Ongoing Neural Authentication for Resource Constrained Hardware (MONARCH )
- Extendible Sensor-software Platform for Detection, Classification, and Tracking of UAS (ESP for DeteCT)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Covert Loading and Execution of Software Protections to Reduce Adversarial Detection
- Covert Loading and Execution of Software Protections to Reduce Adversarial Detection
- Utilizing Hardware Features for Covert Loading and Execution of Software
- Covert Loading and Execution of Software Protections to Reduce Adversarial Detection
- Covert Loading and Execution of Software Protections to Reduce Adversarial Detection
Research funding history
43 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,450,862. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security
Contractor profile
ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC.
Historical federal award activity, when published, is on that contractor profile. Matched by UEI only.