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June 9, 2008
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Athena Wins Army Contract
for Anti-Tamper Technology
Gainesville, FL - June 9,
2008 - The Athena Group, Inc. has been selected by the
U.S. Army to develop TeraFire® AT anti-tamper products
for FIPS 140-2 certifiable modules and system-on-a-chip (SoC)
designs. TeraFire AT supports the military's widespread adoption
of advanced security protection by enabling engineers to protect
sensitive information in single chip cryptographic devices
and modules.
Electronic systems provide
crucial product differentiation in virtually every product
domain. These high-tech systems are obvious targets for tampering
attempts, including reverse engineering, firmware theft, manufacturing
overproduction, and counterfeiting. Tampering can cause tremendous
negative impact, ranging from loss of competitive advantage
and reduced product lifetime, to product liability, loss of
addressable market, and even increased government regulation.
By creating a standardized
implementation that enables any developer to include TeraFire
AT, Athena provides the means to secure both military and
consumer electronics without a major impact on schedule or
cost. In the past, each component and each system had to develop
a unique anti-tamper scheme and implementation, which increased
costs and delayed schedules while delivering mixed results.
Today, Athena's TeraFire AT solution provides the integrated
hardware, software, and secure OS required to quickly produce
designs that are provably resistant to reverse engineering.
“Athena has focused intensely
on reducing the cost and time-to-market impact of employing
AT techniques in in virtually any new electronic device,”
states Dr. Jon Mellott, CTO of Athena. “. "While
we often think of AT as primarily a military technology, protecting
proprietary information in commercial products is also essential
to maintaining a competitive advantage. And critical to making
TeraFire AT viable for all applications was removing the two
primary barriers to AT adoption - cost and schedule.”
About The Athena Group,
Inc.
Based in Gainesville, Florida, Athena innovates breakthrough
technologies that achieve the optimum balance of power, performance,
and silicon area in a wide range of applications such as wireless,
satellite, and secure communications. Athena provides patented
semiconductor intellectual property (IP) solutions, with products
ranging from the market-leading TeraFire® security cores,
to Atomic DSP™ cores, and Atomic SDR™ software defined
radio cores.
Athena was founded in 1986
and is privately held.
For more information, please
visit www.athena-group.com.
Press Contact
Pat Rugg, VP Sales and
Marketing
The Athena Group, Inc.
408 W. University Avenue, Suite 306
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 371-2567 ext. 307
Toll-free: (800) 741-7440
Email: prugg@athena-group.com
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