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Icewater is a clustering technology leveraged to organize data objects based on how they look. Icewater converts any document, binary, or program from any architecture into a representation and then using the same algorithms found in nature compares the objects. Turns out this is a really fast way to identify malware and malicious documents. Who would have thought that nature would have invited these algorithms.
Leveraging parallel compute, Icewater is able to calculate Object Cluster Identifiers at an average of 0.5 milliseconds per compute core providing for a scalable way to test everything. Icewater can leverage GPUs and FPGAs for blinding speed in a index everything attitude.

One million samples a day

Icewater can sort and cluster over a million objects per day on a single commodity hardware device. Have too many files? Can’t even contemplate sending them over the wire to VT? Deliver them locally and see which files are similar using the hottest in Nature Intelligence. The math behind Icewater is based on Fractals — the same math nature uses.

Clustering as Life and Art

Icewater is fast, energy efficient and scaleable. Our base system handles more objects on server class CPU than most of our competitions clustered solutions. COTS Hardware or VM or Cloud the architecture doesn’t matter to Icewater. Clustering provides a data triage capability so your sandboxes or analysts can focus on the unique targeted attacks.

Never before have we had the amount of data to sift sort and analyze than we have today in cyber security. Early security researchers noted the similarity to biological metaphors of viruses and those labels were adopted by the computer/tech world. Icewater actually uses algorithms derived from nature.

Every one of your cells, your dog or cat’s cells, the cells in the hamburger you ate or the sausage biscuit you had used the same algorithm to organize its cells DNA. Trillions (you have about 3 trillion cells in your body) use this same algorithm to keep your DNA organized.

When you sit and discuss leveraging Icewater to solve your cyber security issues, ask each and everyone of your cells if they should pick a different algorithm. The only organisms on the planet that don’t use this to organize their DNA are Bacteria and Archaea.

Microscopic cell biology imagery representing nature's clustering algorithms
Mechanical gear illustration representing Icewater's processing engine

Details

Unique hardware allows us to process orders of magnitude more samples. Leveraging NVidia GPUs that are both energy efficient, Icewater monitors your network and when it detects a matching malware sample alerts immediately.

Sandboxing takes time and ICEwater dilates time by using nature’s mathematics against malicious actors.

Don’t sandbox malware that has been detected, leverage your sandbox for the unknown unknowns.

Scalability

The Parallel Compute architecture of Icewater provides benefits to organizations in three different ways.

Flexible

Icewater can be deployed on general purpose servers, virtual machines, or on AWS, or in any architectural combination preferred by your organization. This also means that Icewater can be deployed quickly and be operational the same day.

Cost-Effective

Icewater employs a subscription-based pricing model based on the compute capability required to support the deployment. This makes it simple and cost-effective to adjust deployment based on the needs of the organization.

Scaleable

Icewater scales linearly in order of Millions of samples per day in one unit of rack space.

Malware document shredder illustration

Hardware Acceleration

CPU 16-core
Objects per Day: 250,000
GPU NVidia GForce 1080
Object per Day: 1,200,000
FPGA Altera Stratix IV
(call) Govt Only [no export]*
Xenon Phi / Knights Landing (Beta)*
exportable
Amazon AWS G2 and P2 instances
2 Million Objects / day depending on network and disk provisioning, may be clustered to provide unlimited objects per day

Minimum interface speed: 10Gb

* Can be clustered to provide over 10M objects/day

About Icewater and Support Intelligence

Icewater is developed by Rick Wesson at Support Intelligence, an Internet Security Startup based in the Bay Area. The patented technology incorporated in Icewater leverages the same algorithm your DNA uses to keep from becoming tangled in knots.

We are looking for investors that want to drive security up the assholes of the badguys by making it exponentially harder for them to operate on global networks. When you are ready to start winning, let us know.