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07.12-14.2011
CHC will be attending the 2011 ASD(R&E)/DHS Cyber Security SBIR Workshop in McClean VA on July 12-14, 2011. Plan to visit us there! For updated times and dates ... 
03.15.2011
Clear Hat moves into their new downtown office space
03.07.2011
Awarded SBIR Phase II contract for topic OSD09-IA2: Countermeasures to Covert Access Methods to Reduce Attack Susceptibility and Ensure Trust
03.07.2011
Awarded SBIR Phase II contract for topic OSD09-IA1: Real-time Adversarial Characterization and Adaptive Software Protection Countermeasures
12.21.2010
Awarded SBIR Phase I contract for topic OSD10-IA1: Countermeasures to Malicious Hardware to Improve Software Protection Systems
04.15.2010
Sherri Sparks named as one of 12 'White Hat" Hackers You Should Know by Ellen Messmer, NetworkWorld
2.25.2010
Awarded SBIR Phase I contract for topic AF093-053: Automatic Artificial Diversity for Virtual Machines...
11.12.2009
Awarded SBIR Phase I contract for topic OSD09-IA2: Countermeasures to Covert Access Methods to Reduce Attack Susceptibility and Ensure Trust
11.06.2009
Awarded SBIR Phase I contract for topic OSD09-IA1: Real-time Adversarial Characterization and Adaptive Software Protection Countermeasures
09.24.2009
Awarded Subcontract with Riverside Research Institute
05.11.2009
Awarded Subcontract with Ball Aerospace: System Management Mode Vulnerability Assessment
08.06.2008
Presentation by Sherri Sparks and Shawn Embleton at Black Hat USA 2008: Deeper Door - Exploiting the NIC Chipset
08.06.2008
Presentation by Sherri Sparks and Shawn Embleton at Black Hat USA 2008: A New Breed of Rootkit: The System Management Mode (SMM) Rootkit
Sherri Sparks Credited as "White Hat" Hacker
Cyber-Journalist Ellen Messmer posted a list of 12 "White Hat" hackers you should know on Network World on 04/15/2010. Clear Hat Consulting president Sherri Sparks is credited for her work in computer security research ...
... researcher Sparks has made rootkits and stealth malware her pursuit, and at one Black Hat Conference showed how operating system-independent rootkits, such as the proof-of-concept System Management Mode-based rootkit she built with colleague and co-founder Shawn Embleton, could be used to subvert and compromise computer networks...