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“Revolutionary” VirtSec Startup Emerges From Stealth

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If Barracuda attempting to gobble up SourceFire today wasn’t interesting enough, check this out…

WALTHAM, Mass., May 30 /PRNewswire/ — Hyperbole, Inc., the the pioneer and leader in virtualization security solutions today announced it has emerged from stealth mode and raised $14 million in a Series A funding which it will use to expand its R&D efforts and grow its sales and distribution teams.

Hyperbole’s flagship product, HyperTension, provides a zero footprint and forensically tight paradigm-shift in the emerging virtualization security (VirtSec) market by automatically protecting all virtual infrastructure against known or unknown attacks without the need for expensive and clumsy IDS, firewall and IPS technology. 

With no agent software and no hardware requirements save for a specially-constructed tamper-proof USB device called the HyperDrive, HyperTension is able to secure any virtualization platform automatically within seconds and with no downtime required.

HyperTension provides an undetectable ring compression insertion technology that injects itself into memory space transparently and utilizes the flash memory space available in PCI cards present in the system to load, thereby not corrupting the main heap and rendering itself undetectable. 

Further, HyperTension will probe for the presence of parallelized graphics processing units (GPU) from leading graphics card providers and if found, will utilize them to provide the compute cycles necessary for operation thereby not impacting the on-board main CPU or cache, further lessening the impact of the solution running in virtualized environments. 

This allows for massive computation capabilities used to provide real-time memory-space attack detection functionality which can be manually or automatically adjusted using our patented HyperSensitivity comb filter technology.

Hyperbole’s patented HyperVentilation technology utilizes quantum cryptography and open source algorithms to create "holes" in memory to dynamically encrypt/decrypt the entire memory space of a virtualized host and upon register access, leverage commodity TPM solutions to authenticate and decrypt memory on the fly when used in conjunction with any of Hyperbole’s partner-supplied whitelisting solutions.

Once accessed, HyperTension automatically performs an ASLR operation for pointer obfuscation and then re-encrypts the memory space using a newly-generated quantum key derived from the unique properties of the hashed cache entries from the rotating cipher.

This provides unbreakable security since only authorized applications can attempt to gain access to HyperVentilated memory space which is also encrypted to prevent unauthorized access.

Speechless. 

/Hoff

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  1. May 30th, 2008 at 12:52 | #1

    Yes, but is it HyperActive?

  2. May 30th, 2008 at 14:11 | #2

    I'll believe it when I see it. Quantum crypto in a flash drive? PR guys FTL.

  3. David O'Berry
    May 30th, 2008 at 15:58 | #3

    Errmm…
    *checks the date*
    Dude, yer a couple months late.
    I hope?
    –D

  4. May 30th, 2008 at 16:00 | #4

    "This provides unbreakable security since only authorized applications can attempt to gain access to HyperVentilated memory space which is also encrypted to prevent unauthorized access."
    Unbreakable? Did Oracle's old PR firm find new work?

  5. May 30th, 2008 at 19:33 | #5

    Was the founder Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?

  6. David O’Berry
    May 30th, 2008 at 19:58 | #6

    Errmm…
    *checks the date*
    Dude, yer a couple months late.
    I hope?
    –D

  7. May 31st, 2008 at 09:08 | #7

    that's awesome. But you forgot to mention the founders long string of successes in online pet food delivery, snake oil, and e-commerce.

  8. June 8th, 2008 at 07:24 | #8

    Wait Chris, you left off the best part:
    "Hyperbole's unique patent-pending Hyperspatial update and subscription service allows the near instantaneous transfer of new heuristics for attack detection before knowledge of these attacks can arrive."

  9. David O'Berry
    June 8th, 2008 at 13:06 | #9

    Scary but true the proliferation of CUDA, while way more practical than this piece, could create a situation that remotely resembles some aspects of this crazy concept.
    The benefits as well as the pitfalls are staggering to comprehend.
    –David

  10. David O’Berry
    June 8th, 2008 at 17:06 | #10

    Scary but true the proliferation of CUDA, while way more practical than this piece, could create a situation that remotely resembles some aspects of this crazy concept.
    The benefits as well as the pitfalls are staggering to comprehend.
    –David

  11. Taken
    June 10th, 2008 at 07:47 | #11

    Montego had the HyperSwitch already. Trademark cage match is in order!

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