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Regulus Cyber Announces Breakthrough Software-Based Cybersecurity Solution Against Hacking Navigation SystemsHAIFA, Israel, Sept. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Regulus Cyber, the first company to provide a solution for smart-sensor security, today introduced a breakthrough software-only cybersecurity solution designed to protect global navigation satellite system users (GNSS, also known as GPS) from spoofing attacks. The new Regulus Pyramid GNSS is the industry's first stand-alone software solution that doesn't require any additional hardware to protect a GPS receiver or Chipsets - ensuring the security and reliability that are essential to safe and accurate navigation across a wide range of applications including automotive, mobile, aviation, maritime and critical infrastructure. GPS spoofing is a remote attack that transmits fake PNT (Position, Navigation, Time) information, enabling a hacker to take control of a target using satellite navigation and affect critical functions, such as time-sync, speed control, steering, navigation, location, privacy and more. GPS spoofing attacks are notoriously difficult to detect and guard against, and becoming increasingly frequent as hackers use spoofing for personal monetary gain and various other intentions. The Regulus Pyramid GNSS™ solution uses proprietary algorithms to accurately determine when spoofing occurs and provide real-time protection at the receiver level. "We've learned how to perceive anomalies between legitimate GNSS signals and spoofed signals by researching the variations in the satellite signals protocol, and recognizing the inter-relationships between signal parameters," Regulus Cyber CTO and Co-Founder Yoav Zangvil explain. "Now we can offer our customers the extremely important assurance that they're receiving legitimate signals from satellites, and not unsafe false signals coming from ill-intentioned hackers." Regulus Pyramid GNSS supplements GPS receivers, including legacy receivers and Android operating systems, offering dependable protection. In addition, online services from Regulus Cyber can provide further signal authentication to connected fleet operators in real-time. Te effects of GNSS spoofing are problematic—and often potentially dangerous—across multiple industries:
"As proven in our recently published experiment with a Tesla semi-autonomous vehicle, the spoofing attack resulted in taking control of the target's autopilot navigation and being able to redirect the vehicle to a different route." Regulus Cyber CEO and Co-Founder Yonatan Zur added that, according to a recent study by the European Satellite Agency, there will be over 8 Billion GNSS receivers used worldwide and that means every system is potentially hackable by spoofing. "As the dependency on GPS grows so does the vulnerability of our modern transportation systems, especially as we head towards an autonomous technology future." About Regulus Cyber Regulus Cyber is the first company to deal with smart-sensor security. From GNSS (global navigation satellite systems, also known as GPS) to lidar and radar, smart sensors are critical components across a wide range of applications like mobility and automotive, mobile, and critical infrastructure. Real-world attacks against these sensors is a growing concern; therefore, Regulus focuses on GNSS (GPS) security, a field that is very different from connected internet-based attacks. Media Contact: DeeDee Rudenstein, 610-660-7787, [email protected] View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/regulus-cyber-announces-breakthrough-software-based-cybersecurity-solution-against-hacking-navigation-systems-300917143.html SOURCE Regulus Cyber |