Sentar Develops Information Assurance Risk Assessment for Military Systems

   May 19, 2008

   HUNTSVILLE - With the publication of the Information Assurance Risk Assessment for
   Military Systems, Sentar provides a step-by-step methodology that allows IA Analysts' to
   make operational determinations of the IA Risk stemming from known vulnerabilities.
   Specifically geared toward Department of Defense IA issues, the IARA facilitates rigorous,
   operationally focused, defendable and repeatable IA risk assessments.

   Read all about Sentar's IARA development here

Sentar Wins SBIR Phase II for Active Resource Manager (ARM)

   September 1, 2007

   HUNTSVILLE - As computer network systems used by military, government, and business
   organizations become more vital to the organizational mission, they also grow larger,
   faster, more complex, more heterogeneous, and more difficult to protect.  Nowhere is the
   nation’s reliance on network systems more critical than in network-centric warfare
   (NCW).  Successful conduct of NCW requires information sharing across a span of
   information domains and networks.  Among the many challenges to successful NCW is the
   requirement for the networks to be robust and secure.  Necessary to securing these
   networks is the provision of a technology for active network management. 

   Active Resource Manager (ARM), now in Phase II development will provide intelligent
   monitoring and control for military network systems, enabling network security personnel
   to respond rapidly and effectively to cyber threats.

   More about Active Resource Manager here

AccrediScan enables easy auditing of DIACAP STIG compliance

   July 2007

   HUNTSVILLE - SMDC Show - VBCC -  Sentar's AccrediScan is toolkit targeted to the
   Information Assurance professional for enabling easier auditing of DISA STIG compliance.
   It automatically executes and records the results of over 400 automatable Security
   Readiness Review scripts from DISA – reducing a tedious, manual, time-consuming
   activity down to a matter of minutes with a single click of a button.   More info here

Sentar Wins Information Assurance Run-time Auditing (IARA) Phase I STTR

   June 13, 2006

   HUNTSVILLE - The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $99,889 contract to Sentar Inc.,
   Huntsville, for Information Assurance Run-time Auditing (IARA).  The contract was
   awarded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) through the Air Force Office of
   Scientific Research (AFOSR).  Sentar, teamed with Dr. Rose Gamble at the University of
   Tulsa, developed this concept as a framework to promote the specification of software
   system monitoring, audit, analysis and threat mitigation capabilities in large scale
   software intensive systems. This effort will provide the OSD with an innovative platform to
   enable the rapid development of capabilities to monitor untrusted, executing software
   components within a trusted system and capabilities to capture and analyze monitored
   behaviors. Though such practices are gaining momentum at a host level, approaches that
   can scale to enterprise and system of systems are currently unaddressed. Thus, the IARA
   effort proposes to fill this gap by proving the efficacy of scaling run-time monitoring and
   analysis technologies as well as providing a foundation to design, configure, and deploy
   those capabilities. IARA will be particularly beneficial for dynamic and evolving
   infrastructures such as Future Combat Systems, FORCEnet, Joint Battlespace Infosphere,
   or the burgeoning Global Information Grid. Broad based benefits of the proposed
   capability transcend government needs, supplying commercial organizations a solution
   and tools who seek to verify the operations of untrusted components to be incorporated
   or updated in their enterprise systems. This protection is applicable to a number of large,
   international corporations that depend on access to a growing number of networked
   systems and data stores in order to remain competitive.  IARA provides protection of
   critical enterprise corporate assets at all levels of the corporation at all sites worldwide.

Sentar Wins Digital Microscope (DM) Phase I

   March 2, 2006

   HUNTSVILLE - The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $99,879 contract to Sentar Inc.,
   Huntsville, for Digital Microscope.  The contract was awarded by the Air Force Research
   Laboratory, Rome, N.Y.  Sentar, teamed with SYColeman and Reifer Consultants,
   developed a concept to address the critical issues of software defects and vulnerabilities
   in Code, be it C, C__, Java, or Visual Basic., called the Digital Microscope (DM) under a
   Phase I SBIR with U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.  The DM simulates a
   native running environment in which a binary code can be encapsulated, analyzed, and
   tested for malefactor influence, as well as poor coding practices.  The design of the DM
   will allow, for example, the testing of code through injection of timing mismatches,
   embedded codes, and buffer overflow attempts into the binary, all in a quarantined
   environment.  It will also promote plug-and-play extensibility through the use of a multi-
   agent infrastructure for future enhancements such as security wrapper insertions, proof
   generation, and attack modeling and simulation.  The resulting technology will   
   substantially contribute to software vulnerability discovery and remediation by providing a
   comprehensive tool for validation of code safety prior to deployment.

Sentar Awarded COMBO Phase I

   March 2, 2006

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar, teamed with SYColeman, wins a Phase I SBIR with U.S. Army
   Space and Missile Defense Command. In response to the need for integrated cyber and
   physical security, the Sentar team is developing an enterprise security management
   console called COMBO.  COMBO will include development of a Common Event Ontology
   for cross-domain knowledge representation and definition of a generic interface for
   information exchange between Sentar’s Work-Centered Interface for Computer Network
   Defense (WCI-CND) and physical security systems, such as SYColeman’s intelligent
   surveillance solution, Praetorian.  Data streams obtained from video, proximity, motion,
   and biometric devices will be correlated with cyber-attack information to pinpoint and
   document the locations and personal identities associated with attacks and other
   suspicious activities.  By bringing together Sentar’s advanced technologies for computer
   network defense with SYColeman’s intelligent surveillance solutions, COMBO provides a
   full range of integrated capabilities for security situation awareness. 

   A technology capable of supporting security across both physical and computer domains
   will have broad applicability throughout government and industry, and it is particularly
   appropriate to the distributed architecture of military systems critical to the nation’s
   infrastructure that are susceptible to global attack and in need of such a capability.  For
   example, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems used to manage
   electrical power grids, water treatment and distribution, oil refineries, and pipelines are
   increasingly vulnerable.  As all facets of industry and government come to rely on
   secured information systems, they share a common problem.  Protecting their information
   assets becomes mission-critical, and the threats are pervasive.  Thus the applicability of
   this technology extends to all organizations with a stake in information systems.

Sentar Wins ARM Phase 1 for Self Managing Networks

   March 20, 2006

   HUNTSVILLE - In response to the need for self-managing networks with the ability to plan
   and carry out transitions from actual to desired state of the network within a complex,
   fluid environment, Sentar, teamed with SYColeman, developed a concept for the Active
   Resource Manager (ARM) under a Phase I SBIR with U.S. Army Space and Missile
   Defense Command. The proposed Active Resource Manager (ARM) will monitor and
   integrate data from an extensible set of network management resources, cyber-defense
   sensors, and executable policies.  An Event Synthesis Agent will use fast graph
   comparison algorithms for consolidation and classification of network events.  The
   consolidated events will be used by ARM Reasoning Agents for generation of Response
   Specifications.  These Response Specifications will be used by the SNMP Interface Agent
   to define the executable commands for altering the network state. Agent marshalling will
   provide an evolvable problem solving process by means of intelligent selection of ARM
   Reasoning Agents, whose capabilities may be nominally redundant but whose relative
   strengths and weakness may vary. 

Sentar Web Site Has a New Look

   Thursday, July 27, 2005

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar revamps its corporate web site in an effort to provide the latest
   information on solutions, projects, research and technology.  This site is compatible with
   Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Netscape.  Send us some feedback and let us know
   how you like it.

Sentar Wins Multi Gaming Fusion Phase I

   June 29, 2005

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar wins a Phase I SBIR with AFRL for Multi Gaming Fusion.The
   proposed objective of this SBIR Phase I is to design and prototype a extensible, reusable,
   and verifiable gaming environment, which provides an advanced command and control
   (C2) simulation and experimentation platform. This system will be capable of
   incorporating numerous and variable game engines that interact dynamically to realize
   any C2 scenario introduced. Specifying a goal-driven, high-level architecture that
   embodies reconfigurable compositions of components ensures the extensibility and
   evolvability of the implemented platform. This promotes plug-and-play incorporation of
   new techniques and technologies to elucidate advanced C2 functions without system
   reprogramming. It will provide multiple modes of operation and interaction for C2 function
   experimentation. Thus, it can accommodate batch processing where a predefined
   scenario or campaign is introduced by a single user. In addition, a single user or team of
   users can be directly interacted with the environment to elucidate the outcome of an
   experimental C2 scenario.

Sentar Delivers InTime Work

   Friday, July 1, 2005

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar, in conjunction with InTime, Inc (www.gointime.com), has released
   the Version 2 InTime Crop Management Web Application.  The enhancements will allow
   farmers to create prescriptions for multiple fields with multiple rates in one request, and a
   new automated installation process has been added to simplify the downloading of
   requested prescriptions and scout maps.

   Sentar provided software development and test services in support of InTime's GIS- 
   based precision agriculture systems. Sentar’s client, InTime, Inc. provides crop
   management services that target a reduction of input/chemical costs through the
   provision of prescription maps that enable the spatially variable application of agricultural
   chemicals to a farmer's field during the growing season. 

Sentar wins PAWS Phase II

   Tuesday, March 22, 2005

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar, teamed with SYColeman and Reifer Consultants, developed a
   concept for the Protection Analysis Work Stations (PAWS) under a Phase I SBIR project.
   The PAWS concept supports off-line analysis of computer network defense (CND) systems
   for the purpose of recommending improvements to their implementation. The PAWS
   analyzes a CND system in order to improve its ability to protect both the network system
   and its critical applications from malicious or accidental damage. The purpose of PAWS is
   to complement situation awareness system by providing that off-line analysis and
   recommending improvements to it. The opportunity is to begin implementation of PAWS,
   alongside the situational awareness (WCI-CND), to yield a proactive network defense
   system to guard against sophisticated cyber attacks.

   Phase II PAWS efforts will demonstrate the feasibility and utility of an agent-based
   approach to collecting and analyzing information from a multitude of sources to provide
   new information and knowledge to security analysts in the support of updating and
   enhancing security plans and guidelines. The use of PAWS will enable CND systems to
   evolve with and respond to changes as well as with the threats changes. The technology
   is applicable to military systems as well as mission critical commercial systems such as
   those found in utilities and financial markets.

Sentar Awarded Position on CSC-AMCOM Express Team

   Thursday, August 12, 2004

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar wins position on the CSC AMCOM Express Team in the Business 
   Management Support and Process Improvement Support areas. In the area of Business
   Management Support, Sentar will provide analyses, facilitation, expert advice and
   assessment relating to business management initiatives such as business management
   initiatives and recommendations for execution.For Process Improvement Support, Sentar
   will provide analyses, facilitation, expert advice and assessment relating to process
   improvements such as reengineering recommendation, objectives, and strategies,
   issues/initative, and assess impacts.

Sentar Becomes an Employee Owned Company

   November 17, 2004

   HUNTSVILLE - Sentar formally became an employee owned company in 2004 with the
   establishment of the Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP).  This plan provides
   shares of stock to employees on a regular basis, allowing them to enjoy the benefits of
   ownership in the company.