November 2010 august 2012, program lead for endpoint security, antitamper software protection initiative branch, integrated electronic and netcentric division. Trusted end node security tens technology is developed and managed by the air force research laboratory afrl information directorate. Thought should be given to reliability of the product as well as flexibility in assessing a significant penalty if tamper is detected. Antitamper and software protection initiative technology office, air force research laboratory. All of our security labels have pressuresensitive adhesive just peel and stick. Strong research ties exist between the ccr and the air force cyber command, the anti tamper software protection initiative technology office of the air force research laboratory, the sensors and information directorates of afrl, the nsa, the defense advanced research projects agency, the air force information operations center, and the air.
Security labels and stickers provide an anti tamper seal for file cabinets, doors, windows, equipment, boxes, and many other containers. This program began as the antitamper software protection initiative in 2001 with its. May 2009 october 2010, program lead for endpoint security, antitamper software protection initiative technology office, sensors directorate, afrl, wrightpatterson afb, ohio 8. Limit insider access to prerelease software to deter inappropriate sharing of. Apply to engineer, quality assurance engineer, senior antitamper sme and more. February 2006 january 2008, deployment team lead, antitamper software protection initiative technology office, sensors directorate, afrl. A security approach that hampers or prevents the reverseengineering or modification of the software or application. The measures involved can be passive such as obfuscation to make reverse engineering difficult or active tamperdetection techniques which aim to make a program malfunction or not operate at all if modified. However the copy is as tamper proof as the original. The anti tamper software protection initiative technology office atspi located at the air force research laboratory, wright patterson air force base, ohio, was originally established in 2000 to combat exploitation, alteration, and reverseengineering of critical program information cpi. Supply chain risk management and the software supply chain. Hughes is a cyber technology company specializing in. They are doing this with socalled antitamper technology, which.
Software anti tamper at prevents the reverse engineering and exploitation of military critical software technologies in order to deter technology transfer, alteration of system capability, or the development of countermeasures to u. Us comprehensive national cybersecurity initiative supply. If youre looking for a securityminded live linux distribution, tens makes. Change settings for onaccess scanning, suspicious behavior detection hips, web protection, or sophos live protection. After applying a security label, the security label will indicate tampering. The objective is to assure effective media protection and controls to prevent loss or unauthorized access to nasa infonnation or infonnation systems. Oct 15, 2019 tamper protection is a method of hardening windows defender against such threat actors, helping users to mitigate malware and threats that attempt to disable security protection features, jha said. The file you have requested is not currently available.
For each physical format and application, sensors can be specified over a range of security protection levels. Lightweight portable security lps is part of the antitamper software protection initiative atspi the dod antitamper introduction webpage carries the official seals of the us department of defense, the us air force research laboratory, and the antitamper software protection initiative. Integrated into an oems hardware packaging scheme, gore tamper respondent sensors can be provided in an array of physical formats to create a protected 3d space for the components storing the critical information see figure 2. Antitamper software or tamperresistant software is software which makes it harder for an. At is an emerging umbrella term that covers the process, activities, and materiel implementations to protect u. Senate the department of defense dod since 2004, dod invests billions of dollars on sophisticated weapon systems and technologies.
Defense acquisitions departmentwide direction is needed for implementation of the anti tamper policy highlights of gao0891, a report to the committee on armed services, u. Hughes was the founding chief of the anti tamper software protection initiative atspi technology office, air force research laboratory afrl and led research into complex system vulnerability and risk analysis for trusted cyber systems. The primary objective of at techniques is to protect critical program information by preventing unauthorized modification and use of software. The idea behind it is that government workers can use a cdrom or usb stick to boot into a tamper proof, pristine desktop when using insecure computers such as. Laboratory and the antitamper software protection initiative. Introduction atspi background understanding the re threat. Antitamper software or tamper resistant software is software which makes it harder for an attacker to modify it. The tens program office offers products that provide network security from the end node perspective while providing user capabilities of remote access, secure web browsing, and filefolder encryption, in addition to other initiatives. Antitamper protection can be applied as either internally or externally to the application being protected.
The measures involved can be passive such as obfuscation to make reverse engineering difficult or active tamper detection techniques which aim to make a program malfunction or not operate at all if modified. Epoxy resins conformal coatings bleeding paint metal or hard plastic enclosure 5. Join the pennwell aerospace and defense media group on. The anti malware software shall be kept uptodate with the latest malware signature updates in order to detect the latest threats.
Anti tamper software or tamper resistant software is software which makes it harder for an attacker to modify it. Encryption wizard comes in multiple editions, all producing encrypted files which are fully interoperable and usable by other editions. The tens program office offers products that provide network security from the end node perspective while providing user capabilities of remote access, secure web browsing, and file. Antitamper technologies seek to keep critical military systems data. Secure version, configuration, and inventory control to protect code, development artifacts, and tools from unauthorized changes, deletions, augmentations.
Lightweight portable security is a livecd distro designed by the us. Antitamper software or tamperresistant software is software which makes it harder for an attacker to modify it. Oct 03, 2018 tens was developed by the air force research laboratory afrl information directorate and began as the anti tamper software protection initiative in 2001 with its flagship products lightweight. Of specific interest are antitamper technologies for secure cots fpgas. You can change the tamper protection settings for a specific device or server. Leading systems engineering practice in dod and industry systems engineering policy and guidance technical workforce development specialty engineering system safety, reliability and maintainability, quality, manufacturing, producibility, human systems integration security, anti tamper, counterfeit prevention standardization.
Lightweight portable security lps is a linux livecd, or liveusb, developed and publicly. Jeff has ms in electrical engineering from the ohio state university. Linux distribution that creates a secure end node from trusted media on. If the original would work on one computer only, so would the. Antitamper at is defined as the systems engineering and system security engineering activities intended to prevent andor delay exploitation of critical technologies in u. It is essentially tamper resistance implemented in the software domain. These powerful attacks regroup attempts to inject faults, directly probe or force signals, remove, add or modify features on the chip metal routing, transistors. Anti tamper technology such as what is offered by arxan can be used successfully with licensing platforms like nalpeiron in order to harden the licensing against strong attacks. The nasa media protection policy shall be consistent with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations and guidance. Antitamper and cryptographic solutions for information. At measures are developed and implement to protect critical program information cpi in u. At is an emerging umbrella term that covers the process, activities, and materiel implementations. This is because, even if the programs on a computer are encrypted, they must ultimately be decrypted in order to execute. The tamper evident feature varies for each product.
Idaho scientific innovates by hiring and empowering the top minds in electrical and computer engineering from across the country. Tamper switch installation instructions fire alarm resources. We are experts in lowlevel computer hardware and software design with particular experience in the use of field programmable gate arrays fpgas, custom firmware, hypervisors, operating systems, and compiler development. Lps and encryption wizard were initiated by the air force research laboratorys antitamper software protection initiative program, started in 2001. This program began as the antitamper software protection initiative in 2001. The atsvi technology office originally stood for antitamper software protection initiative. Tamper proofing compared to copy protection these are quite different. Why tens is the secure bootable linux you need techrepublic. Trusted end node security, or tens, is an os with a unique origin. This program began as the anti tamper software protection initiative in 2001 with its flagship products lightweight portable security and encryption wizard.
Physical protection anti tamper mechanisms in cc security. This program began as the antitamper software protection initiative in 2001 with its flagship products lightweight portable security and encryption wizard. Frangible polymer circuit acts as tamper sensor tech briefs. Anti tamper technology, on the other hand, protects software that cannot be secured by cryptography by making reverse engineering more difficult. The atsvi technology office originally stood for anti tamper software protection initiative, yet today its mission has expanded to encompass hardware as well as software. The tens program office offers products that provide network security from the end node perspective while providing user capabilities of remote access, secure web browsing, and filefolder. Volume protection concepts should address detection of tamper attempts and an appropriate penalty as the result of the tamper attempt. Tamper proofed software in theory can easily be copied. Just keep the portable media with you and youll be able to use tens on any.
The atsvi technology office originally stood for antitamper software protection initiative, yet today its mission has expanded to encompass hardware as well as software. Topfront mounting holes topback mounting holes bottom mounting holes idnet wiring to sps or to idnet card 6. Anti tamper and software protection initiative atspi technology office 20 jun 2007. To help your app detect tampering, we looked at identifying telltale signs of emulation and thirdparty debugging with environment checks. Software antitamper at prevents the reverse engineering and exploitation of military critical software technologies in order to deter technology transfer, alteration of system capability, or the development of countermeasures to u.
In 2016, that program was ending, so lps and encryption wizard were moved to the trusted end node security program office. Anti tamper and software protection initiative atspi technology office email. Air force base, ohio, issued a broad agency announcement last week. We introduced a quick and easy way to confirm the installer of your app, and perhaps most importantly how to verify that your app is still signed with your developer signature. Maps isse, anti tamper software protection, program protection planning to dod acquisitionsystems engineering lifecycle identifies critical components for enhanced protection. Please check your url or try again later we apologize for the inconvenience. License checking software usually uses tamper proofing internally to protect itself from being disabled.
Nov 30, 2010 the lightweight portable security distribution was created by the software protection initiative under the direction of the air force research laboratory and the us department of defense. To download the latest versions, see the downloads link in the sidebar. A survey of anti tamper technologies this article surveys the various anti tamper at technologies used to protect software. Antitamper technologies seek to keep critical military.
Tensprofessional, bootable media, and various forms of encryption wizard. The software preservation society sps, formerly the classic amiga preservation society caps, dedicates itself to the preservation of software for the future, namely classic games. The antitampersoftware protection initiative technology office atspi located. Bootable media is a telework solution that is customized for a dod. Fpga software that resides on programmable hardware to protect cpi at rest. As it is, these items are no longer available from their original suppliers, and are mainly in the possession of an ever diminishing community of well willed collectors.
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