Cs3 Press Kit - About Cs3

About Cs3, Inc.

Cs3, Inc. is a pioneer in infrastructure-level DDoS security solutions, constructing the building blocks for a more secure and robust, mission-critical Internet.

Cs3's MANAnet^TM technologies provide infrastructure-level solutions for eliminating source forgery and defending against Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Cs3 is the only company taking a purely infrastructure-level approach to this problem, and the only one offering defenses against both incoming and outgoing DDoS attacks.

Founded in 1991, incorporated in 1998, Cs3, Inc. is privately held. It has been awarded development funding the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the California Technology Investment Partnership (CALTIP).

The Market

Today's Internet infrastructure has been architected for openness, speed, and growth rather than security and robustness. As a result, the Internet is increasingly vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, whereby a flood of seemingly normal service requests from an attacker overwhelms the victim's site servers, effectively shutting down the site.

Last year a four-hour DDoS attack on popular sites such CNN, Yahoo!! and eBay caused an economic impact estimated at $1 billion. More recently, DDoS attacks have disrupted the sites of Microsoft, the FBI, and even the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the Internet's leading security watchdog. A recent study claims at least 4,000 Denial of Service attacks are launched each week. There is presently no deployed technology to solve this problem.

The stability of the Internet economy is at stake. For the Internet to be a viable platform for mission-critical applications requires new kinds of infrastructure-level improvements in both security and performance.

MANAnet Products

Cs3's patent-pending MANAnet software suite - the "MANAnet Shield" - provides a systemic, infrastructure-level solution to DDoS attacks and other security and improved quality of service enhancements for the Internet. MANAnet focuses on the fundamental protocols of the Internet infrastructure itself and the providers of that infrastructure. Key technologies and features include:

Elimination of Source Forgery: Cs3 has developed an enhancement to the Internet Protocol (IP) called Path Enhanced IP (PEIP) that ensures a packet carries its own path information that is not controlled by the sender.

Fair Service Scheduling to Defend Against DDoS Attacks: Cs3 has a patent-pending "fair-service" approach to defending against packet flooding and related DoS attacks that allows customers their fair, uninterrupted share of shared resources even in the face of attacks.

Cooperative Neighborhoods: In Cs3's technologies, cooperative neighborhoods are used as the basis to provide enhanced collective security and reliability -- much more effectively than a single site could possibly be. A cooperative neighborhood is a group of adjacent routers that are enabled with similar capabilities, such as PEIP to eliminate source forgery and fair-service scheduling.

Cs3 markets infrastructure-level DDoS defense products based on MANAnet technologies that work against incoming and outgoing attacks:

MANAnet Reverse Firewall^TM: For ISPs, universities and other infrastructure owners vulnerable to hackers turning their computers into DDoS zombies, the MANAnet Reverse Firewall chokes off attacks that are mounted from their networks. Unlike a traditional firewall, which filters incoming traffic, the MANAnet Reverse Firewall limits the rates of unexpected outgoing packets from vulnerable networks and ensures customers get their fair share of service.

MANAnet Router: For incoming DDoS defense, MANAnet modifies how the infrastructure's routers function to ensure fair-service scheduling and eliminating source forgery. Cs3 offers a MANAnet Linux Router and will license its patent-pending technology for proprietary routers.

ANAnet Firewall: In addition to traditional firewall capabilities, this device provides the ability to track "unexpected" packets, those that are not replies to previous packets. These are scheduled at a much lower rate. Using site-specific parameters, the Firewall detects when an attack is occurring, and can instruct its neighboring routers to limit the rate of packets with the appropriate paths.

DDoS Defense is the first product in Cs3's MANAnet suite. Future defense and quality-of-service products to be based on the MANAnet architecture are Packet Forwarding Services, Fair Service Server Wrappers and Network Management/Forensic tools.

Management Team

Cs3 personnel are among the best in their fields of software specialization and represent a core team of seasoned technologists who have done seminal work on Internet infrastructure and network security:

Deborah A. Taylor - Chief Executive Officer, President and Founder

Dr. K. Narayanaswamy - Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

Dr. Donald Cohen - Senior Scientist

Paul Hynek - Interim Vice President for Business Development

Dr. Fred Cohen - Board Member (nationally recognized network security expert)

Dr. Herbert Schorr - Board Member (Director USC/Information Sciences Institute)

Headquarters

Cs3, Inc.
5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 1185
Los Angeles, CA 90045-5600

Phone: (310) 337-3013
Fax: (310) 337-3012
www.cs3-inc.com

About Cs3

Founded in 1991, incorporated in 1998, Cs3, Inc. is a pioneer in infrastructure-level DDoS security solutions, constructing the building blocks for a more secure and robust, mission-critical Internet. Privately held, Cs3 has been awarded development funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the California Technology Investment Partnership (CALTIP).

For more information on Cs3 and its MANAnet DDoS Defense solution, please visit www.Cs3-inc.com.

Company contact: Cs3, Inc., Ms. Deborah Taylor, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 1185, Los Angeles CA, 90045-5600. Phone: (310) 337-3013; Fax: (310) 337-3012.