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2007
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Skaion on Secure Decisions' Team for SBIR Award
Skaion Corporation is a member of a team headed by Secure Decisions awarded the first phase of an Air Force SBIR contract to improve the effectiveness of computer network defenders in protecting critical cyber assets... (more)
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Skaion Nominated for DARPA Tech Award 2007
Skaion Corporation has been nominated for the 2007 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) "Sustained Excellence by a Performer" Award... (more)
2006
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Skaion Selected to Present Paper at IEEE Information Assurance Workshop
Skaion Corporation has been selected to present a paper at the 7th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop in West Point, NY, June 21-23... (more)
2005
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Skaion Selected to Present Case Study at ACSAC
Skaion Corporation has been selected to present a case study at the 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 5-9, 2005 in Tucson, Arizona... (more)
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Skaion Reprises Role in AFRL "Hackfest" Exercises
Skaion took part in the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's "Hackfest" exercises this past summer for a second year, providing technology to create the simulated network environment that information assurance students used as a "cyber battleground"... (more)
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Skaion Contributes to DARPA SAPIENT Program
Skaion Corporation is providing assistance to DARPA's Situation-Aware Protocols In Edge Network Technologies (SAPIENT) program, as a subcontractor to MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Skaion's contribution is in helping develop and evaluate metrics for application and network performance... (more)
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Skaion Participates in Conference on Intelligence Analysis
Skaion Corporation recently took part in IA'2005, the First International Conference on Intelligence Analysis. Sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, IA'2005 was intended to report fundamental, novel, and operationally significant advances in the art of intelligence analysis and the associated science and technology support from national, military, academic and competitive intelligence communities... (more)
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Skaion Participates in Department of Homeland Security R&D Conference
Skaion Corporation particpated in last month's Department of Homeland Security conference, "Working Together: Research & Development Partnerships in Homeland Security"... (more)
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Skaion Wins Small Business Innovation Research Grant
Skaion Corporation has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the U.S. Air Force, for research on development of information assurance training applications based on the company's network traffic generation technologies... (more)
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PITAC Identifies Modeling and Testbeds as Cyber Security Research Priorities
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) has identified "Modeling and Testbeds for New Technologies" as one of ten cyber security research priorities for the nation, in its newly-published report to the President, "Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization"... (more)
2004
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Skaion Contributes to Success of 2004 AFRL "Hackfest"
Skaion technology was employed in this past summer's "Hackfest" at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's facility in Rome, New York. Students of AFRL's Advanced Course in Engineering (ACE) summer Cyber Security Boot Camp engaged in the national cyber security exercise, which pitted two teams against each other to alternatively attack and defend networked systems... (more)
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Skaion Participates in 2004 NSTAC R&D Exchange Workshop
Skaion staff participated in the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee's 2004 R&D Exchange Workshop, held Oct. 28-29 in Monterey, California... (more)
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Skaion Awarded DARPA Grant for Dynamic Quarantine Research
Skaion has received an award under DARPA BAA 03-18, "Dynamic Quarantine of Worm-Based Attacks Against Military Enterprise Networks." Skaion is providing network characterization, background traffic generation software, installation, and support to the main and contractor testbeds... (more)
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Skaion Awarded ARDA Grant for Information Security Research
Skaion has received an award under ARDA BAA 03-03-FH, "Information Assurance for the US Intelligence Community" (IAIC). By the conclusion of the IAIC effort (September 2005), Skaion will have assisted in the creation of multiple simulations of cyberattacks against notional Intelligence Community networks... (more)
Media Coverage
"Decoys Suggested for Pentagon Network"
The Washington Post...
The diversion strategy, called Net Force Maneuver, would lead hackers "to systems where we are prepared to receive them," Hunt and Gardner wrote. It's a technique that technology experts outside the Pentagon have called a honey pot.
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Ross Stapleton-Gray, senior research analyst at Skaion Corp., a computer security company in North Chelmsford, Mass., said the idea has merit, but it wouldn't necessarily be easy for the Defense Department to achieve.
Phantom Defense Department networks "would be an interesting challenge: They'd need to behave sufficiently realistically as to convince prospective attackers that they were authentic, yet not reveal too much about the real networks," he said... (more)
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