ASL is conducting research in ways to protect the confidentiality and integrity of critical application components and data, running and stored in PC memory, from malicious attackers.

We have developed a technology that uses features of Intel and AMD systems to establish roots of trust and create an environment where programs can execute out-of-band alongside conventional operating systems and applications. It allows the execution of intellectual property while protecting it from piracy and reverse engineering and provides a secure location from which to conduct system monitoring. No hardware beyond a standard PC is required.

This work is supported by the Air Force Research Lab Anti-Tamper and Software Protection Initiative (AT/SPI) at Wright-Patterson AFB under the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. We took this project from concept to prototype and along the way demonstrated our capability for working in unusual computing environments, such as BIOS and SMM.

If this ASL technology seems like it might fill a need on your project, contact us. The SBIR program encourages commercialization and corporate liasons. There may be a way that you can leverage government funding to acquire state-of-the-art technology and provide additional value to your customers.