Cryptographic Integrity Tool (CIT)

CIT detects viruses, hacker, sabotage and any baseline configuration violations from any source, using cryptographic change detection—CIT is not a virus scanner; It is an advanced cryptographic integrity agent that detects changes, additions, and deletions of files. Once a snapshot of your file system is created, CIT will protect the system by reporting these events. Unlike non-cryptographic integrity tools, CIT cannot be tricked into a false reading, which can reduce Help Desk turnaround time from hours to minutes!

For instance, the Help Desk gets a call from an end user - the system doesn't work. The user claims that they didn't change anything, and a proposal on the system is due out the door by noon, today. Is it a user error, virus attack or sabotage?

CIT...

• ...can protect disks, tapes, floppies, CD-ROMs and removable media.
• ...does not require the virus to be known.
• ...will never require a virus database update—one copy lasts a lifetime.
• ...uses Industry Standard RSA Associates' MD5, cryptographic hashing algorithm.
• ...generates a file signature that is compared to prior signatures, and copies of the signature databases can even be stored off line for additional protection.
• ...locates all files that were modified, deleted, and/or added to the file system by outside personnel, viruses, or any other form of attack. Hackers can't get away with anything if CIT is protecting the system! System Administrators can discover and correct back doors installed by hackers or disgruntled employees within minutes.
• ...can be used to reduce help desk turn-around time from hours to minutes when supporting complex systems. Using CIT, the baseline can be verified within minutes and the problem reduced to a modified, deleted or added file. If the baseline is within specifications and the system is still malfunctioning, then the problem is diagnosed as a hardware failure!
• ...can be used across the Internet, post office, or any other form of transmission to insure the integrity of data. Using CIT, you can be sure that what was sent matches what was received.
• ...is the Tape Librarians best friend, as the contents of long-term storage media can be verified as being uncorrupted.
• ...CIT can be used to timestamp information by creating associations between files and the date/time in which the association is made. In effect, this can be used to fix the contents and date of email, EDI transactions, or any combination of data items into a form which can be proven to have been unchanged from the original at a specific date and time.

CIT has thousands of uses—it can be used anywhere where it is important to prove that data or any combination of data has been unchanged from its original state.