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CONSULTING SERVICES:
Research and Development
Cistech Limited is developing a family of
Quality Assurance best practices and tools for large-scale
consulting applications, with the aim of improving product
reliability and integrity, time to market, and reducing
the total cost of ownership.
The networks of today often include several different
operating systems, a variety of web-based and client/server
applications, and other components from a potpourri
of vendors. These heterogeneous networks introduce a
high level of complexity when it comes to management
and security issues. This complexity makes it impossible
to effectively secure an entire networking environment
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Cistech Limited's current research
focuses on a type of security breach known as Distributed Denial
of Service. This is an attack that targets resources within
the network with the intention of reserving resource and keeping
legitimate users from gaining access.
The results of this research will provide a set of clear,
consistent and structured management rules that may be used
in different access control schemes. It will significantly
advance the research knowledge and tools required to increase
the level of productivity associated with e-business. As such,
the anticipated project outcomes will contribute, in an important
way, to the evolution of future secure e-society systems.
Cistech Limited is developing an Intelligent Logistic Management
Solution (SmartTracker) for asset tracking and management over terrestrial and satellite
wireless communication networks.
Cistech Limited's research also focuses on Secure Channel Based Systems.
Security in a distributed system often comes at the cost of a performance penalty. Due to
the CPU time consuming security algorithms used, transferring data using SSL is known to be
significantly slow. The research project focuses on a security sieve that separates the
non-classified components from the classified components and will transmit them over non-secure
and secure channels respectively. The components are re-assembled at the receiving end to
reconstruct the original document. The secure components can be “marked” by the author of the
document. It may also be possible to automatically identify them based on a set of keywords.
For the work discussed in this research a “marked by author approach” is followed.
A paper presenting an initial set of research results of a university-industry
collaborative research has been submitted in the ACM/SPEC International Conference (March 2011).
The technique can be deployed both in a wired as well as in a wireless network domain.
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