Overview

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

Today’s databases are 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 steal clear text, ciphertext, encryption keys, mount cryptographic attacks, destroy data, ransomware data, or corrupt data’s integrity.

Current database security relies on transparent data encryption or tokenization, which is still static and stationary. Attackers regularly dump databases and make it past these measures. At best, tokenization today only substitutes one vulnerability for another.

Traditional prevention and detection are digital equivalents of locks, cameras, traps, walls, and security guards. These fail. Attackers 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. To make matters worse, quantum computers threaten to unravel all current encryption in a Y2K-style event.

CryptoMove’s innovative database tokenization approach makes data in a database a constantly shifting and moving target. Attackers cannot identify data of interest to mount attacks. Time is a disadvantage, because 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 distributes copies automatically for resiliency and redundancy, and is resilient to attack and failure. Quantum computers don’t matter, because attackers can’t collect encrypted data to brute force.

CryptoMove integrates as a database plug-in, completely transparent to the underlying application. Conventional detection or prevention increases defenders’ work 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.