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The First Ransomware Threat On US Voting Machines Has Happened in Georgia

With the Presidential election just a few days away this no time for cybersecurity to be questioned in the US. However, the electoral process is certainly at risk during 2020 and a large ransomware threat or cyber attack of any nature could prove to be crippling. There is already likely to be political accusations regarding voting irregularities so any infrastructure interruption will only add to that uncertainty.

That being said, Hall County in Georgia is the first ransomware attack to hit election infrastructure this political season. Hall County is about an hour north of Atlanta.

According to The Gainesville Times, among Hall county’s affected systems were a voter signature database, as well as a voting precinct map hosted on the county’s website.
The initial disclosure by county officials said that the attack had hit “critical systems within the Hall County Government networks” but as usual with reporting of cyber attacks, they provided few additional details. Crumley declined to discuss further specifics, citing an ongoing investigation.
At BLAKFX not only are we on a mission to eliminate ransomware attacks and threats we can protect the integrity of all data collected during the electoral process.

We have developed the first in the world Ransomware Auditing as a Service (RaaS) platform which allows our cyber security engineers to scan networks and simulate real-world ransomware attacks to determine the test the prevention, detection and mitigation strategies of your organization and establish how resilient your network is to real ransomware attacks. After the scan we provide a comprehensive report and our recommendations for remediation.

Further, even if a government were the victim of an actual ransomware attack, we are able to recover the data that has been hi-jacked during the attack and due to Helix22’s DNA BindingTM capability, restore it to its original state.

With Helix22 installed, governments can ignore the attack and simply extract the original encrypted data.

Finally, attackers quite simply cannot exfiltrate any of the data they have tried to hi-jack. The Helix22 encryption protects all data at rest, in use or in transit. Therefore, the threat of a leak does not even exist. Also, even if data has been rendered inaccessible by the ransomware attacker, we can retrieve it. Therefore, it is not a data hostage situation either.

Even data from outdated voting technology can be protected

With no threat of a leak and the ability to retrieve all the original data, ransomware attacks are defeated.

Ransomware Auditing as a Service (RaaS)

BLAKFX and the Helix22 data security SDK delivers all this security assurance very confidently due to our genius engineering team that has invented a new model for data security that required an innovative look at the problem. The approach we took was to protect the data itself. Almost all other data security products try to build a perimeter or being fanatic on user identification. However, once the product is breached or a password is stolen, your firms data is in the clear.

You see, the Helix22 cryptography is embedded with the data itself through our inventive and patented process of DNA BindingTM. Therefore, even if a breach were to occur the data cannot be exfiltrated. This means that all your firm/nations data is 100% protected regardless of the type of attack. Further, Helix22 protects data at rest, in use and in transit. No other data security can make that claim. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning experimentation runs and generates incalculable amounts of data. All is protected at its inception.

U2U encryption

We can make this claim as the tech engineers at BLAKFX invented and patented a genuine user2user (U2U) encryption. We manage data security transmission through the truly brilliant and also patented universal Helix22 key service. The Helix22 encryption originates on your network or device, not just when the app is opened. This means, that when data arrives to our key server, it is already encrypted so all it needs to do is issue another key. Signal and Telegram cannot claim this level of security. This key will then only work with the intended device, which generates a matching key required to open the data. In this protocol, we are truly a “zero-knowledge” server so your communications and transmissions remain completely top secret. Even in the event that BLAKFX were subpoenaed, we can honor the request by just handing over the encrypted content…as that is literally all we have. Helix22 also only use keys just one-time and then destroys them. This way the data security is future forward prefect. Therefore, in our unique user-to-user encryption (U2U) world, there is no opportunity at all for any data leak.

This same protocol just described, can be the same with all your 3rd party vendors and suppliers. It does not matter in the least what platform they are running or what device they are using or even the type of data, it is all 100% protected. We do however, strongly advise that all firms involved be utilizing Helix22 due to the nature of the data content. Helix22 can ensure that whatever data they are generating is protected as well.

Let’s take it a step further. Even if your organization were a victim of an internal attack or a victim of malicious open source downloads, there is no reason for concern. Any data that has been forwarded, downloaded, copied or saved cannot be exfiltrated. Period.  We have the technology industries foremost data packets which are protected with multi-layered, military grade encryption algorithms that have already proven the ability to withstand penetration testing from MI5 and quantum computing attacks.

One final practical genius of DNA BindingTM is in that it is immediately compatible with whichever system or software you are utilizing. Therefore, any organization can forward information to another and then discuss it and there is immediate privacy.

BLAKFX is Based on Success

                                                                                         

Founder – Robert Statica PhD            Founder – Kara Coppa                   Founder – Alex Maslov MS, MBA                    

 

                               

Co-Founders of Wickr                    KatimTM Ultra Secure Smartphone

Our founders, Robert Statica PhD and Kara Coppa, also founded Wickr, which is used by the US military and has never been hacked since its inception in 2012. The Helix22 data security SDK is several generations enhanced since then. Dr. Statica also delivered the encryption for the world’s most secure phone, Katim.

Finally, the Helix22 encryption is quantum computing ready so no need to redo all your data security methodologies in a couple of years when everything else becomes obsolete.

We like to refer to Helix22 as “22nd Century Data Security.”

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