Overview

CryptoMove is a new active defense data protection startup in Silicon Valley. CryptoMove’s innovative approach protects data with dynamic movement, distribution, mutation, and re-encryption.

Today’s data infrastructure is static and unchanging, making it easy for adversaries to hide in a system, study it, and plan attacks at their leisure. Attackers have an asymmetric advantage and can steal clear text, steal ciphertext, steal encryption keys, mount cryptographic attacks, destroy data, ransomware data, or corrupt data’s integrity.

Traditional security methods rely on prevention and detection–the digital equivalent of locks, cameras, traps, walls, and security guards. All of this fails because attackers have an asymmetric advantage. They can break locks, turn invisible to evade cameras, discover traps, go over and under walls, and there are simply not enough security guards to keep up.

CryptoMove’s innovative active defense approach makes data a constantly shifting and moving target. Attackers cannot identify data of interest to mount their attack. Time is a disadvantage, because the data is constantly moving, fragmenting, and mutating. And if attackers manage to identify, steal, or destroy any data, all they have are worthless encrypted fragments. CryptoMove’s system creates copies automatically in other places for resiliency and redundancy, so the system is resilient to attack and failure.

CryptoMove integrates anywhere, whether in a cloud infrastructure, on-premise data center, off-site at a third-party vendor, with databases, big-data lakes, and even edge computing and fog environments like smart factories. This enables Fortune 500 companies and industrial organizations to modernize their data infrastructure and protect data in increasingly diverse and distributed environments. Conventional security, whether enhanced detection or prevention, increases work for defenders and heightens cyber-adversaries’ asymmetric advantage. CryptoMove’s active defense data protection approach, however, increases costs for attackers while making defenders’ tasks easier. This flips the asymmetry — in favor of defense.