Galois has received a multiyear, $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop methods and tools to secure hardware for consumer, government and commercial use. The company said Wednesday it will lead a team project under the first phase of DARPA’s System Security Integrated through Hardware and Firmware program that seeks to address hardware vulnerabilities exploited […] More

Galois has received a $2 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to build an integrated suite of tools that will work to analyze cryptographic algorithms. The company said Wednesday it will develop the Cryptographic Analysis, Verification, Exploration, and Synthesis workbench in an effort to help cryptographers address performance requirements for encryption software. CAVES will be designed […] More

John Launchbury, formerly director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s information innovation office, has rejoined technology research and development company Galois as chief scientist. Galois said Thursday Launchbury will work with government and industry stakeholders in efforts to craft a road map to address security challenges related to cyber-physical systems. He will also lead the company’s partnership […] More

Galois has received a $2.7 million contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop methods for the U.S. Navy to increase the resiliency of the service branch’s real-time and embedded military software systems. The company said Monday it seeks to utilize binary rewriting and software brittleness techniques to help the Navy reinforce control systems for cyber […] More

Galois has established a new office in Dayton, Ohio, as part of the company’s commitment to help drive technology innovation in the state and expand support offerings to  commercial and defense clients. The company said Friday it aims to begin operations at the 3,000-square-foot facility in early summer as well as expand relationships with research organizations and commercial transition partners in […] More

Galois seeks submissions to two benchmark challenges that work to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s efforts to prevent software reverse engineering. Submissions should describe existing theories or new approaches to identify security vulnerabilities in program obfuscation technology, Galois said Monday. One challenge focuses on order-revealing encryption while the other targets point-function obfuscation, with both security […] More

Galois has secured a $750,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory to support the development of a cyber deception technology that will look to mislead potential attackers that monitor network activities. The company said Thursday it received the funds under Phase II of a Small Business Innovation Research program effort for the Prattle cyber deception technology. Prattle […] More

A team comprised of Galois and Guardtime Federal has received a $1.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to verify the effectiveness of a blockchain technology-based integrity monitoring system against sophisticated security threats. DARPA asked the companies to jointly test if Guardtime Federal’s Keyless Signature Infrastructure can detect advanced persistent threats hidden within computer networks, Galois said Friday. The goal […] More

Galois has received a $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a technology platform that will work to identify cyber threats within enterprise network and system environments. The company said Monday it will collaborate with the University of Edinburgh, Xerox’s PARC company and Oregon State University to build the Diagnostic Approach for Persistent Threat Detection […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $10 million contract under its Cyber Fault-tolerant Attack Recovery program to Galois for services to address security vulnerabilities in military and commercial system code bases. A Galois-led team — which includes Trail of Bits, Immunant and the University of California in Irvine — will deploy the Robust, Assured Diversity for Software […] More

Galois has formed a new election technology company as part of an effort to help election officials secure and verify polls with open source software and systems. The Free & Fair spinoff will provide voting technology that utilizes commercial off-the-shelf hardware and works to generate verifiable evidence of election results, Galois said Monday. Joseph Kiniry, an elections technology […] More

Galois has been awarded a $6.2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to test the privacy of systems for DARPA’s Brandeis program. The Galois-led Testing and Modeling of Brandeis Artifacts team comprised of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland College Park, Hebrew University and Charles River Analytics will work on the project, Galois said Feb.18. Galois […] More