MARCH - 2020ENTERPRISE SECURITY| | 19router, the value of the HOP count is decremented.Typically, a very large HOP count is set by default, in every computer, regardless of the operating system. This HOP value is placed in every packet before it leaves a computer and is set at a very high value, then decremented until it reaches zero. “Unlike the conventional security approach, we lower the number of HOP counts,” states Alderson. By lowering the HOP count number, the packet is destroyed when the HOP goes to zero. This stops data from traveling beyond the data center or the organization’s network to the Internet where control is lost. For instance, if a user is communicating with a server in Iran, the packet goes through the Internet, and it decrements by one after every router it goes through. During this time, HOPSphere Radius learns how many HOPS are necessary to reach a vital database server. Then the system determines how many routers there are in the data center and sets that server to the same HOP count. When the HOPreaches zero, every router in the world ever manufactured since time and eternity, unilaterally destroys the packet. At the same time, when the packet is destroyed, that router sends out an alert message back to the center about what has transpired. There are two advantages to this approach; first, data cannot travel beyond the data center. Second, if someone is trying to break into an organization’s most valuable server in the data center, they can contain the data and alert the IT security team. For the road ahead, HOPZERO is working on a ‘proof of concept’ to build a new system for the U.S government and law enforcement customers. Apart from this, the company is planning to move its capabilities from the premise to virtual environments such as the cloud. ESOur forte lies in providing a robust security at the TCP/IP network layer that leverages protocol rules to limit how far data packets can travel while ensuring sensitive data is protected when all other security measures fail
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