Digital Authentication Technologies

Richard Morgenstern, CEO 

Digital Authentication Technologies

www.dathq.com

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Small Business

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Using location as a verification factor is not new. Geo-location, signal triangulation, and IP address lookup have all been used in some fashion to enable location-based policy decisions.

While these technologies continue to have application in areas such as enforcement of access rules to licensed content or low-level system security controls, the limitations and vulnerabilities in these technologies make them a less than ideal choice in protecting areas such as data centers, critical infrastructure and other highly sensitive information and services.
These location technologies have serious limitations, such as:
·  Subject to spoofing
·  Limited ability to operate within buildings
·  High degree of error
DAT has solved the challenges of location verification with proprietary technology known as Contextual Location Fingerprint (CLF), which uses electronic sensors to establish contextual information about a location, e.g. a room within a building. This contextual information is then used to establish a digital fingerprint for that location which has nothing to do with the geo-characteristics of that location.
Much like a human fingerprint, CLF technology can compare measurements taken at different time intervals to confirm the measurements were taken from the same location.

ABOUT

Digital Authentication Technologies (DAT) has pioneered a concept and set of enabling technologies collectively known as Contextual Location Fingerprints™ (CLF™).  At its core, CLF provides a new approach to using location as an additional authentication factor within a broad set of policy-definition/policy-enforcement tools.  Unlike classical approaches to location verification, such as geo-location, triangulation and IP address look-up, CLF technology is much more precise, e.g. Room 207 of Building A, and does not suffer from the same spoofability concerns inherent in existing technologies.   If properly integrated into the larger ecosystem of cyber security management tools, CLF technology has the potential to greatly reduce cyber security events related to compromises in critical infrastructure and information systems.

CLIENTS

  • Defense Information Systems Agency
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Departmet of Defense
  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Navy
  • U.S. Joint Forces Command

 

  • July 31, 2013
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