Market Pain

Enterprises increasingly depend on assuring the integrity of information as they move toward electronic exchange to reduce operational costs. Information integrity depends not only upon authentication of both the sender and receiver, but also on assuring that the content has not been maliciously manipulated before or after an authentication session has been established. Participant trust and permission levels add levels of complexity that existing network-centric approaches are unable to efficiently and securely handle in a rapidly changing global environment.

Unlike Global Uni-Docs' Content-Centric Security (CCS), existing network-centric technology is unable to address the five key problems of information security.

Complexity of centralized security profile databases
Insider trust issues
Public and employee privacy issues
Secure cross-domain exchange to the edge of the network
Inability to create unimpeachable audit trails

The Global Information Grid (GIG) has over 1 billion participants. Though over $70 billion is spent annually on network-centric approaches to protect the information exchanged, the sophistication and success of attacks are increasing at alarming rates. The cost to remedy the consequence of a high-value attack exceeds $9 million per event and those costs do not consider the value of the sensitive data compromised.

Recently, documents were exposed after Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file downloads inadvertently published the Pentagon's entire secret backbone network infrastructure diagram, classified data regarding improvised explosive devices, terrorism threat assessments, and data from security system audits.*  Citigroup had 3.9 million banking records stolen after a sophisticated attacker successfully manipulated the electronic shipping manifest and redirected the delivery to the thieves.**  The CIA recently acknowledged that cyber criminals had successfully hijacked computer systems and disrupted several utility company power grids.***

Every day, we learn enterprises with compromised, highly sensitive or proprietary electronic files. These failures have produced spectacular individual disasters, with costs running into the billions and exposing sensitive information. Some suggest the next major corporate failure may be due to compromised data.

*     “Classified U.S. Military info, corporate data available over P2P'”Computerworld,  7/25/07,
**    “E-Hijacking new threat to trucking”, Fleet Owner.com, Sean Kilcarr, 11/3/05
***   “Hackers Have Attacked Foreign Utilities, CIA Analyst Says”, WashingtonPost.com, Ellen Nakashima and Steven Mufson,1/19/08