In-Q-Tel Forging Technology with SAIC to Guard Against 'Denial of Service' Attacks

Business Wire, Feb 9, 2000

News Editors/High-Tech &Government Writers

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

In-Q-Tel, a non-profit company established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop information technology solutions, in partnership with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has been investing in a ground-breaking technology that will proactively allow companies to guard against &uot;denial of service&uot; (DoS) attacks of the type that assaulted and temporarily shut down the portal Yahoo!

Since Monday, similar denial of service attacks have been made against retail giant Amazon.com, electronic auction house eBay, retailer Buy.com, E*Trade and CNN Interactive.

In-Q-Tel, under the leadership of CEO Gilman Louie, has been working with SAIC for seven months to develop this technology, named netEraser(TM), that will provide companies with security measures to defend themselves against these and other DoS attacks.

The &uot;denial of service&uot; attacks, exhibited by the recent hackers, stream endless clusters of information to a website with the intention of flooding the system until it crashes. netEraser will identify these endless streams of information and throttle them before they flood the network. Importantly, this is only one of the many security features offered by netEraser. netEraser commercialization is imminent.

In-Q-Tel is a non-profit company with offices in Washington D.C. and the Silicon Valley. The Science Applications Corporation (SAIC) is based in Virginia.

Note to Editors: netEraser is a trademark of In-Q-Tel and all rights are reserved. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

In the company name E*Trade noted in this news release, there is an asterisk between &uot;E&uot; and &uot;Trade.&uot; This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.