Kaprica Security Chosen by DARPA To Help Improve Vehicle Security

RESTON, Va., Dec. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaprica Security™ Inc., an expert in the field of cyber security, mobility and cloud software, has been awarded a Department of Defense (DOD) contract to strengthen U.S. military-vehicle and related connected-car security systems.

Kaprica will work with DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under a one-year, $270,000 contract to develop technology for the construction of high-security software systems under the agency's High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program with Galois, Inc.

"Kaprica's partnership with DARPA is an important step in understanding and helping to meet software-related security threats not only to government vehicles, but for a variety of consumer products including cars and light trucks," notes Daniel Mintz, president of the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center and former chief information officer for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

"DARPA's investment in the field of vehicle security underlines the growing reliance throughout government and private industry on Internet-based systems," Mintz adds. "Kaprica's understanding of cyber-attack techniques has allowed them to take a leadership position in developing systems to meet ever-increasing Internet security threats."

DARPA is responsible for the development of breakthrough technologies for national security.  The goal of the agency's HACMS program is to create technology for the construction of high-assurance cyber-physical systems.  Such embedded and networked systems are found not just in vehicles but are everywhere in modern technology, from traditional data centers and networks, to smartphones, tablets, wearables, medical, industrial equipment and other things that fall under the "Internet of Things" or IoT.

"Car-to-car and car-to-device communications have grown dramatically with the development of driver-assistance, infotainment and autonomous driving systems," notes Kaprica CEO Douglas Britton. "Government and industry are both faced with major issues related to privacy, safety and security.

"We believe our work with DARPA eventually will lead to improvements in the security and reliability of tomorrow's cars and trucks. Vehicle control systems need state of the art defensive technologies such as Run-time Application Self Protection (RASP). Kaprica's RunSafe™, a RASP program, keeps cyber attackers from capitalizing on system vulnerabilities without the need for lengthy code rewrites."

Gartner researcher Joe Feiman describes RASP as a "must have, emerging security technology." Gartner estimates that by 2020 the IoT will include 26 billion devices and IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion, mostly in services. 

About Kaprica Security

Founded in 2011 by a team of cyber security experts, Kaprica Security Inc. is a thought leader in the field of enterprise cyber security, mobility and cloud software.  The company specializes in the delivery of high-quality cyber-security services to a wide government and private enterprise audience, while at the same time developing easy-to-use and deploy software tools to support its customers.

Kaprica clients range from DARPA and the Department of Transportation to private businesses and organizations, including Lockheed Martin, Intel and the University of Maryland.  Kaprica is a Silver-Level Samsung partner and its enterprise software products include the Skorpion™, Tachyon™ and RunSafe™ lines.  The company is headquartered just outside Washington, DC, in Reston, Virginia, with offices in Austin, Texas.  Additional information is available on the Internet at www.kaprica.com.

About Galois

Galois specializes in the research and development of new technologies that solve the most difficult problems in computer science. Galois is passionate about the trustworthiness of critical systems, and works to ensure that the systems you depend on work as intended, and only as intended. As part of DARPA's High Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS), Galois is building critical flight control software using new software methods for embedded systems programming. Galois was founded in 1999 and its clients include all branches of the DoD as well as DHS, DOE, NASA and Fortune 500 companies. Its headquarters are located in Portland, OR and it has offices in Washington, D.C. Visit www.galois.com to learn more.

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