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Dispel Launches Scattergrid Voice & Video Conferencing System
Dispel,
a US-based cyber-defense company, today announced global
availability of its secure conferencing service, a single application,
browser-accessible platform that provides enterprise-grade secure
communications on mobile and desktop devices. The first
reconnaissance-proof live-stream platform offered to the private market,
Dispel's system encrypts transmissions and strips them of identifying
metadata characteristics to render signals indistinguishable from
general Web traffic - thus insulating communications against
surveillance, profiling and hacking.
"Today, cybersecurity impacts virtually every aspect of our economy and
lives. The need for organizations to contain their intellectual property
and for employees to maintain their personal safety is of the utmost
importance," said Scott Crawford, Research Director of Information
Security at 451 Research (News - Alert). "Enterprises and professionals - particularly
those stationed in insecure regions and locales - require a secure
communications platform that can be trusted and free-from-surveillance
voice and video communication tools for their business needs, which
Dispel's new offering provides."
Dispel designed its new voice and video platform as a business-class
secure communications system to protect organizations in insecure
regions from unfriendly scrutiny and cyber theft. With their new voice
and video conferencing tool, companies and individuals can communicate
and transact business without concern that their intellectual property,
proprietary information or personally identifiable information (PII)
will persist in channels vulnerable to surveillance. Dispel's
non-predictive network system - which dissipates and re-provisions
infrastructure to unassociated cloud users - defeats adversaries by
denying hem the ability to predict and profile where user traffic
enters and exits the network, and leaves no forensic footprints behind
to trace.
Metadata as a marker
While encryption has proliferated in recent years as a method for
securing proprietary information in transit, less focus has been placed
on the protection of the metadata surrounding a communication, which
often reveals as much as the content of the transmission itself.
Portable devices - whether mobile phone, laptop or tablet - constantly
emit data by design, telling network where and how to route
communications. This data, part of what is commonly referred to as
metadata, is available to any agency, organization, government,
enterprise, or hackers watching web traffic. For communications to be
secure, metadata must be protected alongside transmission content.
"Parallel with the increased use of encryption, big data analysis and
behavioral inference have become the techniques of choice for
technically sophisticated parties attempting to decipher what companies,
governments, and persons of interest are communicating, as well as where
their assets are located," said Ethan Schmertzler, CEO of Dispel. "If
you view hacking as a multi-step process, it makes the most sense to
truncate an attack at step one: reconnaissance. By removing the ability
to preemptively monitor a target for patterns, we ultimately remove the
ability to commit a cyberattack at all."
"By focusing on shrouding the metadata, we have provided the market a
solution that allows people to video conference safely while abroad and
protect their business dealings," added Schmertzler.
Dispel's platform delivers the following benefits:
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Each conversation is twice encrypted using AES-256 with unique
2048-bit RSA (News - Alert) for initial key exchange.
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Enterprise customers have continuous custody over all data and
materials passed through the system.
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Packet-level defenses.
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Immune to burn back and traffic correlation.
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Dispel's platform currently deploys across five major cloud providers
- Amazon, SoftLayer, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Rackspace (News - Alert) - with access to
datacenters on several continents.
Demo, Availability and Pricing
Dispel's voice and video components are available for Windows, Linux,
macOS, and Android (News - Alert) platforms. Pricing is dependent upon organization
size and user scope. For a demonstration of Dispel Voice and Video, view
the following video at this URL.
About Dispel
Dispel is a privately held New York-based cyber-defense company
specializing in high speed, counter-reconnaissance communication and
collaboration systems. The firm was founded in 2014 to invent, build,
and operate a means of sustainably defeating cyberattacks and behavioral
analysis techniques that depend upon packet metadata. With the latest
technology release, Dispel's standard solution set includes file
transfer between trusted and untrusted assets, voice and video
conferencing, virtual desktops, messaging, project collaboration suites,
and physical facility cloaking. To learn more, visit Dispel.io.
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