AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- SparkCognition, the world's leading industrial artificial
intelligence (AI) company, and SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition
company, today announced a new collaboration to deploy AI-powered
cybersecurity directly on drones, protecting them from zero-day
attacks during flight. Equipped with SparkCognition's DeepArmor®
cybersecurity product, SkyGrid is the first airspace management
system to enable drone protection powered by AI. This approach
provides more advanced airspace security than traditional
anti-malware reliant on signatures of known threats.
"In the near future, we'll essentially have a network of flying
computers in the sky, and just like the computers we use today,
drones can be hacked if not secured properly," said Amir Husain, CEO and founder of SparkCognition
and SkyGrid. "In this emerging environment, traditional
anti-malware technology won't be adequate to detect these
never-before-seen attacks. SkyGrid is taking a new, intelligent
approach by using AI to more accurately detect and prevent
cyberattacks from impacting a drone, a payload, or a ground
station."
Integrated with SkyGrid's airspace management system, AerialOS™,
the DeepArmor product can be deployed directly on drone hardware to
function even when network connectivity is impaired or
non-existent. The AI protection defends drones from zero-day
attacks by leveraging models trained on the DNA of malicious files
instead of relying on a signature database.
SkyGrid and SparkCognition showcased the DeepArmor product's
drone protection in a recent demonstration:
https://youtu.be/syX_NevNJX0.
"We leveraged cutting-edge AI research and technology to build
the DeepArmor product, which allows it to protect endpoints against
99.9% of never-before-seen threats," said Sridhar Sudarsan, Chief Technology Officer at
SparkCognition. "In addition, the product's uniqueness lies in its
ability to provide top-rate endpoint protection on the lowest
footprint with minimal interference – all in varying degrees of
connectivity. This is the true overarching security differentiator
from which SkyGrid's customers will see value."
The DeepArmor product suite leverages SparkCognition's patented
machine learning technology combined with a defense in depth mantra
to provide multiple layers of protection on an endpoint – instead
of using known signatures, heuristics, or rules-based approaches.
The software protects a wide range of endpoints, with its most
recent addition to the product suite, DeepArmor Industrial,
launched in collaboration with Siemens Energy and designed to
protect operational technology assets across the energy value
chain.
SparkCognition's AI-first approach to cybersecurity and the
DeepArmor product's advanced threat detection models have been
validated by multiple awards, including 2020 Cyber Defense
Magazine's award for best endpoint security and CRN's 2020 Security
100 List.
About SkyGrid
SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition
company, is powering the next generation of aviation. As the only
airspace management system built on AI and blockchain, SkyGrid is
solving the industry's biggest challenges integrating unmanned
aircraft in the global airspace and executing autonomous
operations. SkyGrid's AerialOS™ monitors, predicts, and adapts to
changes in airspace traffic, environmental conditions, and vehicle
health to intelligently route, synchronize, and manage unmanned
aircraft. Based in Austin, Texas,
SkyGrid is enabling a wide variety of commercial drone operations
from package delivery to emergency assistance. For more
information, visit skygrid.com, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
About SparkCognition
SparkCognition catalyzes
sustainable growth for their clients throughout the world with
proven artificial intelligence (AI) systems, award-winning machine
learning technology, and a multinational team of AI
thought-leaders. Clients are trusted with advancing lives,
infrastructure, sustainability, and financial systems across the
globe. They partner with SparkCognition to understand their
industry's most pressing challenges, analyze complex data, empower
decision-making, and transform human and industrial productivity.
With leading-edge artificial intelligence products—Darwin®️,
DeepArmor ®️, SparkPredict ®️, and
DeepNLPTM—SparkCognition's clients can adapt to a
rapidly changing digital landscape and accelerate their business
strategies. To learn more about how SparkCognition's AI
applications can unlock the power in your data, visit
www.sparkcognition.com.
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