At Nektra we develop custom DLP solutions that can be run as individual components or integrated into third party products. In our comments below we focus on critical capabilities: mobile, BYOD, cloud, operating system coverage, and compliance regulation. We built a feature comparison matrix for data loss prevention products to gain a better understanding of […]
Below, we compare different ways of intercepting network packets, and of filtering and analyzing their content to see if kernel drivers which use NDIS and WFP frameworks perform better than WinPcap. We tested the performance of each method. See table. Testing We measured network bandwidth after applying a basic filter which: Intercepts all packets Verifies […]
In June, 2015 there was an alarming bit of news when people over at the Debian project realized that Chromium silently downloaded a closed source NaCl binary extension. It was the hotword extension which implements speech recognition techniques. When someone says “OK Google” within range of the microphone, Chrome interprets what follows as a command. […]
Our Data Loss Prevention Development team used Deviare to add watermarks to printed documents by intercepting XPS Print API interfaces. This technique can be applied to all printing jobs on virtual or physical printing devices. Get the code. The requirements are: An operating system with XPS Print API (Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Update or higher) Visual […]
RemoteBridge is now open source and available on GitHub as are Deviare Hooking Engine and Deviare-InProc. RemoteBridge allows you to access the COM and Java objects instanced in a process as if they were your own object instances. You can access their methods, properties and events from your own application. It is implemented as a COM […]
SpyStudio is now free and available for download here. It is a Swiss Army knife for cyber security analysts, DevOps, QA engineers, and developers. You can take a look at the articles “Nektra and VMware are Collaborating to Simplify Application Virtualization Packaging” and “How Nektra Improved Desktop Virtualization for Symantec Corporation” to see how big […]
We have good news for those interested in Windows Hooking. Deviare Hooking Engine is now open source and available on GitHub. The license is GPL but a commercial license and support are also available for users who want to distribute closed-source products based on Deviare. Our other open source hooking product, Deviare In-Proc, now supports […]
Deviare 101 Part 1 Welcome to the first installment of Deviare 101. In this article, we’ll explain how to use Deviare’s Reg-Free COM capability to easily deploy applications on end-user machines. This guide uses Visual Studio 2013 but can also be followed on earlier versions. The Manifest File Reg-Free COM requires an XML file called […]
If you look at the last Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for APM and compare it with what is really happening in the market you will notice two things: With the exception of Compuware, the leaders, New Relic and AppDynamics, are all newcomers. All the old established companies are excluded from the leader’s quadrant. Gartner separates APM […]
Our Office plugin development team was researching some problems with Office and they found this problem. Our SpyStudio tool intercepts application system calls and retrieves the called functions by inspecting the call-stack. We were unable to access stack information in the last few 64-bit releases of Microsoft Office products. When we use SpyStudio to intercept an Office […]