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.s.-Funded Malware Detection Tech Gets Commercial License
Malware detection technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will move to the commercial marketplace as part of a government Transition to Practice (TTP) program. Hyperion, a malware forensics, detection, and software assurance technology that can quickly detect malicious behavior in software not previously identified as a threat, has been licensed by Lenvio, a cybersecurity firm based in Manassas, Va.
The licensing was part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's TTP program.
"The commercialization of Hyperion builds on TTP's previous successes in transitioning technologies to the marketplace and shows that the TTP program is making a direct impact on improving cybersecurity in the public and private sectors," says DHS Under Secretary (Acting) for Science and Technology Robert Griffin.
In 2012, the TTP program selected Hyperion for inclusion in its inaugural TTP class for further development and validation to accelerate transition of the technology. The unique feature of Hyperion is that it calculates the behavior of software to detect the presence of malware. Hyperion was selected from among thousands of nominations and named an R&D 100 Award honoree in 2015. Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have celebrated the greatest R&D developments of the previous year.
Hyperion was licensed nonexclusively by R&K Cyber Solutions in 2015. R&K spun off its Hyperion business to form Lenvio in 2016 to focus on further development and commercialization. Through this exclusive license, Lenvio will now be able to position the Hyperion platform as a competitive product and keep growing the company.
The TTP program is administered by S&T's Cyber Security Division's (CSD), part of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, and complements the S&T process of funding projects through the full research-and-development lifecycle and into the commercial marketplace. Each fiscal year, the TTP program selects promising cybersecurity technologies developed with federal funding to incorporate into the 36-month transition-to-market program. The TTP program selects promising cybersecurity technologies from DOE National Labs, Department of Defense Labs, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, and universities.
Each year, approximately eight new technologies are selected by TTP and introduced to cybersecurity professionals around the United States with the goal of connecting them to investors, developers, and integrators who can advance the technology and turn it into commercially viable products.
"Commercial technology companies and technology investors should take note of the success of Hyperion because it shows that government-funded R&D technologies are viable solutions for today's complex cybersecurity issues and that the TTP process is critical in bridging the gap between the lab and market for mature technologies," says TTP Program Manager Nadia Carlsten.
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