GRAMMATECH INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SB171-006

GRAMMATECH INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$150,000
Agency
Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
SB171-006
Solicitation
2017.1
NAICS
Place of performance
NY
Period
2017-08-09 → 2018-05-09

Description

The GrammaTech Application Security Platform (GRASP) is a tool for enabling app store administrators to specify custom security policies. GRASP will automatically re-write mobile application code to ensure security policies are enforced at run-time, using a combination of static analysis and injected run-time instrumentation. GRASP will Leveraging GrammaTech's experience on performing static analysis on ARM binaries in order to target Apple's iOS platform. Many of the components of GRASP will nevertheless be target-neutral, making it a product that can inject new security policy enforcement mechanisms into arbitrary desktop or mobile application code. GRASP will make extensive use of GrammaTech's state-of-the-art binary analysis and rewriting capabilities, ensuring that administrators can add customized security policy enforcement and monitoring to COTS applications, even in the absence of the original source code.