IntelliGuard Announces further Collaborative Research Agreement with University of Melbourne

 

30 Jun 2006 - IntelliGuard today announced that its’ 100% owned subsidiary, PowerGuard, has signed an agreement with the University of Melbourne Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering for a further three year research and development project funded under an Australian Government ARC Linkage Agreement. PowerGuard expects to develop further world leading technology as a result of the security-focused collaborative research.

According to Ken Baker, IntelliGuard CEO and founder, “The University of Melbourne has intellectual property and skills in a range of areas compatible with IntelliGuard’s traffic management systems architecture and its software development skills. We’ve already been working together for a while, so it made sense to continue the partnership by way of the new Linkage Agreement. Solutions to complex security problems involve a rare combination of sophisticated programming, data-mining and mathematical skills not readily available to software development firms, so access to professional researchers and University background intellectual property that addresses these security problems is a great asset.”

“During the first stage we will concentrate on identifying pressing problems that need to be solved”, adds Dr Chris Leckie, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Melbourne. “This will be done by surveying Internet attacks and setting up a test-bed to simulate them, then investigating the practicality of each scenario given current deployments, and assessing the damage each attack could do. A University research fellow will work with IntelliGuard on the project, with researchers and developers meeting fortnightly to discuss direction and progress.”

About the University of Melbourne Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

The University of Melbourne Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering is globally recognized for its expertise in data mining, artificial intelligence techniques for network monitoring applications, intrusion detection, load balancing and large scale data-base systems. The University’s research collaboration with IntelliGuard is led by Professor Rao Kotagiri and Associate professor Chris Leckie who supervised the thesis by Dr Tao Peng on DDoS defenses which was the initial basis for IntelliGuard’s R&D work with the University.

About ARC

The Australian Research Council (ARC) is a statutory authority within the Australian Government's Innovation, Industry, Science and Research portfolio. The ARC advises the Government on research matters and manages the National Competitive Grants Program, a significant component of Australia's investment in research and development. The Linkage Projects scheme supports collaborative research and development projects between higher education organizations and other organizations, including industry partners such as IntelliGuard, to enable the application of advanced knowledge to problems.

About IntelliGuard

IntelliGuard is the leading provider of DDoS protection systems. IntelliGuard DPS series provides comprehensive DDoS protection, while the complementary Reporting System provides full-featured reporting for historical network views of traffic flows and incidents. IntelliGuard is a VC-backed privately held company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Seoul. The IntelliGuard DPS appliances are available from prices starting at US$45,000 for 1Gbps models. For more information, please visit www.IntelliGuardit.net