Who We Are

Net Squared, Inc. conducts research in and develops software for information security. Net Squared spun out of the UC Davis Computer Security Lab in 1996 and continues to work closely with UCD today. We have worked with a number of government organizations, including the Air Force, Navy, FAA, Department of Energy, and Intelligence Community. We also work with commercial organizations.

What We Do

Our focus is primarily in intrusion detection, both network-based and host-based. Our researchers developed the earliest network-based intrusion detection system, the Network Security Monitor, which was deployed across the Air Force under the name ASIM, within the Department of Energy under the name NIDS, and within the Defense Information Systems Agency under the name JIDS. We also worked with the first intrusion detection system to combine host and network monitors, the Distributred Intrusion Detection System. In the late 1990s we developed an extensible network sensor called Network Radar which was integrated into a number of government hierarchical intrusion detection sensor grids. We also developed an early prototype of SANS' Internet Storm Center.

Currently we are developing host-based sensors collectively called the Audit Security Monitor (ASM). ASM provides both detection and rich forensics capabilities.

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