SBIR/STTR Research Award
Kernel-mode Software Protection to Prevent Piracy, Reverse Engineering, and Tampering of End-Node Applications
Award amount
$749,888Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ASHTON SECURITY LABORATORIES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-04-24
- Contract end date
- 2010-04-24
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2006.3
- Topic code
- OSD06-IA6
Research abstract
We propose to further the development of a secure integrity monitor for PCs. Its feasibility was determined in Phase I. It uses the System Management Mode of the Intel Pentium architecture (including compatible chips from AMD) to protect itself from tampering or interference by malicious software that is running in kernel mode, such as root-kits. It uses a statistical approach to malicious software detection that is asymmetrical in that it requires more effort from attackers to counter all of its potential protection mechanisms that it is required to actually execute.
Technology keywords
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