Platform Logic Sales Presentation

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The Logical Evolution of Information Security
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Company Highlights

• Privately-held firm based in Glenwood, MD
• Team that developed Gauntlet Firewall (sold to
  NAI), Recovery Key, and Trusted Mach/XENIX
  (secure OS for DoD)
• Founded in February 2002
• Raised 3M in series A from
• Walker Ventures
• Maryland Department of Business Economic Devl.
  (DBED)
• Maryland Technology Economic Devl. Corp (TEDCO)
• Key Individuals in the Security technology market
• Select Clients Select Partners
• Alloy (NASDAQALOY)
• Disney
• Mercantile Bank Trust
• NSA
• US Treasury (Northrop)
• Others

• Espion, Ltd (UK Dist.)
• Network Agency (Japan Dist.)
• Northrop Grumman (SI Partner)
• Top Layer Networks (Product)
• True North Solutions (SI Partner)
• Others

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Problem Overview
Categories of Access
Application or OS Function (e.g. RPC)
Resources
1. Create/Modify
Log Files, Documents, Message Queues, etc.
2. Read-Only
3. No Access
Attacks convince programs to modify these
resources
DLLs, Content, Configuration Data, etc.
System Files
Registry
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Case Study MS Blaster
RPC
RPC
Open Backdoor for Remote Access
Inbound Connect (Port 135)
Create Outbound Connect (Port 4444)
Insert File into Root Directory
Modify Registry Keys
Resources
Devices
Ports
Files
Registry
Windows NT/2000/XP Kernel
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Solution Overview
Categories of Access
Application or OS Function (e.g. RPC)
Resources
1. Create/Modify
Log Files, Documents, Message Queues, etc.
2. Read-Only
3. No Access
DLLs, Content, Configuration Data, etc.
AppFire creates a shell around each program
that controls resource access
System Files
Registry
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AppFire Compliments Existing Tools
Terminal Services
Dial-up Access
Network Firewall
Network Intrusion Detection
VPN
Windows Laptops
Windows Desktops
Internal Servers (Mail, Database, etc.)
Web Servers
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Case Study CFOPS

• Business
• Construction Federation Operatives Pension Scheme
  of Ireland
• US 1B Assets under management
• 222 employees
• Issues
• Moving additional data/services online
• Regulatory pressure following scandals
• Solution
• AppFire being deployed to database and web
  servers
• Sales Cycle
• Lead from former Okena reseller
• Competed w/Cisco Security Agent (Okena)
• 4 months

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Case Study Alloy

• Business
• Media Direct Marketing to Gen Y
• 300M Revenue FY2003 (ends Jan.)
• 695 employees
• Issues
• Despite hard perimeter, network hit w/Blaster
  from laptops
• Websites critical to revenue, needed more
  protection
• Solution
• AppFire being deployed starting w/ laptops then
  to web servers
• Sales Cycle
• Lead from business partner
• Competed w/McAfee Entercept (NAI)
• 5 months