METRONOME SOFTWARE, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: There will be more than one million Mobile Apps, and hundreds of thousands of App Vendors

METRONOME SOFTWARE, LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$1,124,307
Agency
Department of Defense · Army
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Solicitation
2010.1
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2013-09-01 → 2015-08-31

Description

There will be more than one million Mobile Apps, and hundreds of thousands of App Vendors each on Apple App Store and Google Market Place in 2013, and these numbers are growing. The security of the net is being threatened from many directions. Consequently, the integrity of these systems and the protection of their users (the consumers) against the abovementioned cyber attacks are of the utmost importance. Metronome Software, LLC (Metronome) proposes a research and development (R & D) program (with an OPTION) to develop technologies for Cyber Security and App Security for the operations of Mobile Market Places and Mobile Apps, with specific applications to the Transformative Apps (TransApps) Market Place, by providing the following capabilities: o Guarding against abuse/malware/attacks o Assuring End-to-End Trust o Protection against issues of soliciting Apps from unproven (thus untrusted) App vendors o Protection against Stealthy mal-intents o Protection against Botnet attacks