New venture aims to completely rethink enterprise security
Up to now cyber security has generally taken a defensive approach to protecting data and intellectual property.
That’s set to change as a team of industry experts has got together to create a system that's aimed at dramatically improving the reliability and security of enterprise data and applications running in both cloud and conventional environments.
Called Virtual Software Systems (VS²) the company is set to offer an entirely new approach to security based on the founders’ deep expertise in systems architecture, design and development.
VS²’s technology is intended to fill the gap between current perimeter solutions (firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, anti-virus, etc.) and interior defenses such as encryption, which is currently the only method for protecting data following a perimeter breach.
Existing security doesn’t go far enough says VS² President and CEO John Conway, "They've applied technologies and methodologies from the physical world to the virtual world -- but the headlines tell us every day that this approach is incomplete. The mechanisms used by intruders to evade detection and trick perimeter defenses are infinite, so the key is to simplify and manage the attack surface from the inside of the computer. VS² achieves this by rethinking security at the system design level, combining principles of fault tolerance with a new spatio-temporal architecture that virtually manipulates time and neutralizes attacks before they can become harmful exploits".
The engineering team behind VS² holds more than a dozen computer design patents and is responsible for many of the foundational technologies that support today’s complex computer and network infrastructure.
The company is intending to demonstrate its new technology in 2015, in the meantime you can keep up with developments on its website.
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