-Caveat Lector- > http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/05/23/049.html > Wednesday, May. 23, 2001. Page 9 > > Ex-KGB, CIA Spooks Join to Fight Cyber-Spies > > By Jim Wolf > Reuters > Woolsey, a former CIA director, forms part of the Invicta team, which is > offering a revolutionary new Internet security system. > > > WASHINGTON - The one-time head of KGB overseas code-scrambling and an > ex-director of the CIA rolled out Monday what they called a revolutionary > way of hiding Internet communications from prying eyes and would-be > intruders. > > The new system can change the cyber-addresses on a network faster than once > a second, cloaking them from all but authorized parties, said Viktor > Sheymov - founder, president and chief executive of Invicta Networks Inc. > > "We believe that our new technology will serve an important role as a > facilitator of Internet security and will start a new chapter in Internet > history," he told reporters at the National Press Club. > > Endorsing Invicta's so-called Variable Cyber Coordinates system was American > International Group Inc., the world's biggest insurance company by market > capitalization, with more than $250 billion in assets. > > Ty Sagalow, chief operating officer of the insurer's electronic business > risks arm, announced AIG would give a 10 percent discount to companies using > the Invicta product "because we believe it reduces our risk of loss" due to > cyber-attack. > > James Woolsey, former U.S. president Bill Clinton's CIA director from 1993 > to 1995 and an Invicta board member, described the tool as an "absolutely > remarkable intellectual achievement." > > "It just approaches this from a completely different direction than anybody > else," he told reporters. "Everybody else has been building fences around > announced locations." > > Standard approaches to computer security rely on encryption, or data > scrambling, plus devices such as firewalls aimed at screening out abnormal > traffic patterns that look threatening. But any network protected this way > is a sitting duck for a determined hacker, Invicta said. > > Instead, it puts the network in cyber-motion through a continuous change of > "Internet Protocol" addresses - the chain of digits underlying the web to > route traffic to its destination. > > The Invicta system uses special cards to link protected computers to a > central control unit. It lets clients decide how often they wish to vary IP > addresses and specify which applications may be accessed on their network. > > The number of IP addresses drawn on may be in the billions thanks to an > artificial increase in cyberspace, Sheymov said. > > Invicta, headquartered in Virginia, plans to begin shipping a "Beta," or > early release, of its system to paying customers by the end of the month, > said Sheymov, who defected to the United States in 1980 for what he called > ideological reasons. > > Sheymov is a veteran of the KGB's Eighth Chief Directorate, the Soviet > counterpart to the Pentagon's codecracking and eavesdropping National > Security Agency. By the time of his defection, he was responsible for > coordinating all KGB encrypted communications overseas. After defecting, he > worked as a consultant and contractor to the NSA for several years, > according to a company handout. > > The CIA officer who smuggled him out of the former Soviet Union and who > later served as Moscow chief of station under Woolsey, David Rolph, is > Invicta's vice president for international sales. > > Sheymov told reporters that Invicta's address-hopping technology went well > beyond network protection. Another version would be made available within > months for defending Internet-based electronic commerce, he said. > > Future applications included protecting national infrastructure, data bases > and dial-up communications, he added. He declined to spell out the cost of > the system, but said it would be on the "high end" of traditional computer > security packages. > > Invicta, a 1999 startup, may go public in a year or two after it establishes > a track record of earnings and sales growth, Sheymov said. > > Dennis Steinauer, a computer security specialist at the U.S. Commerce > Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, > Maryland, said he would be skeptical of any tool that purported to make > other layers of security unnecessary. > > "It sounds like it might provide some additional protection," he said. "But, > in general, you never want to go with just one layer of security, certainly > not with yet-unproven technology," he said. > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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