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Connected Car Seurity Product "Carwall" Supports BlackBerry
- Strengthening in-vehicle electronic system security -

June 26, 2018
Asgent, Inc.
（JASDAQ: 4288）

  Asgent, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4288, President & CEO: Takahiro Sugimoto, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a pioneer in network security and operations management solutions, announces that the connected car security product "Carwall" from Karamba, sold by Asgent, now supports BlackBerry Limited (CEO: John Chen, located in Ontario, Canada) QNX software, with the goal to strengthen security of in-vehicle electronic system security.

  BlackBerry QNX offers a foundational software platform for safety-critical cockpit and autonomous driving systems. Karamba´s autonomous security product "Carwall" integrates seamlessly with QNX software and hardens automotive system ECUs according to factory settings against cyberattacks, preventing malware from infiltrating the vehicle to ensure customer safety.
  Karamba´s Carwall strengthens the ECU, protecting against dropper and in-memory attacks. The benefits of implementing Carwall include the following.
 - Seamless, out of the box, hardening of applications running on the QNX OS
 - Automatic prevention of buffer overflow exploits and cyberattacks
 - Zero false positives; all in-vehicle systems work as designed
 - No need for developer intervention
 - Avoids time-to-market delays

  "We are pleased that Karamba has extended their support to include our platform," said Grant Courville, Vice President of Product Management and Strategy, BlackBerry QNX. "Karamba Carwall adds another layer of security to BlackBerry QNX´s already highly secure software offering. The combination provides customers with stronger cybersecurity for in-vehicle systems."
  "BlackBerry QNX has established a leadership position in safety-certified and secure automotive software," said Ami Dotan, Karamba Security´s co-founder and CEO. ,"We are proud to be working with BlackBerry QNX with our Autonomous Security solution that automatically hardens ECUs and see this as validation that our technical approach sets the standard for preventive automotive cybersecurity."

[About Karamba]
  Karamba Security provides industry-leading cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles. The Carwall and SafeCAN autonomous IoT security products provide end-to-end in-vehicle security by authenticating communications, including OTA updates, with zero network overhead and by hardening the car´s safety ECUs from attempts to manipulate or compromise their commands and hack into the car. Together, the products prevent cyberattacks with zero false positives, no connectivity requirements and negligible performance impact. In the short two years since its inception, Karamba already has 17 engagements with OEM and Tier-1 providers. The company was recognized with TU-Automotive’s Best Cybersecurity Product/Service award and the Best Cybersecurity Product/Service award from North American Frost & Sullivan in 2017, and in May 2018 was recognized as a Cool Vendor by Gartner in IoT security, as well as receiving the Best Cybersecurity Product award from TU-Automotive in June two years running.

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