Melior, Inc. CyberWarfare Defense     www.dDoS.com
CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Founder - Dallas / Texas

CyberWarfare Defense, October 2002 to May 2005, and May 2005 to September 2008

• Developed first working defense against distributed Denial-of-Service (dDoS) attacks
• Protected 300 million users against dDoS attacks
• Contributions to DoD/NSA/Spock, FBI Infraguard, US Secret Service N-TEC (North Texas Electronic Crimes Task Force), Operation WebSnare, and others

Internet Infrastructure & Security Services, 1996 to 2002

• Built prototype WiFi ‘Wardriving’ Van, Cray / Cluster Computer-based encryption breaking demos
• Deployed & operated first free WiFi network in Dallas, won “7th most un-wired US city” title for Dallas in 2003
• Linked Bank of America & Nations Bank first during their merger in 1998
• Deployed & managed first international tele-medicine application for MedWeb
• Developed India-based customer service solution for San Francisco - based Brigade Solutions

Narrative:

Incorporated in Delaware (1996), Melior first provided Internet Infrastructure and Security consulting, hosting, and other services to clients in the Silicon Valley.

As a Melior consulting service to Bank of America (Concord, California 1998), I linked the bank for the first time to Nations Bank’s infrastructure during their merger.

As a Melior consulting service to MedWeb (San Francisco, California) implementated and managed WAN network/ISP services for Linux-based telemedicine/radiology solution; performed installations in Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado, Marin County, California, and remote installations in several locations in Italy).

As a Melior consulting service to Brigade Solutions (San Francisco, California) I designed international backbone systems for service delivery to the US from India, as a concept presentation to Venture Capital Investors.

In 2001 / 2002 Melior built prototype WiFi Security Analysis tools (among them an AirSnort prototype vehicle, still unsurpassed today), to demonstrate live encryption code breaking on the company-owned Cray CS-6400 Supercomputer and cluster systems built for this purpose.

Melior set up the first free WiFi access point in the city of Dallas, which put the Metroplex on the map among the “Top 10 Unwired Cities in the US” in Wired Magazine in May 2003.

By the end of 2002, and with staggering damages through Denial-of-Service attacks worldwide, I restructured Melior, Inc. from a service provider business to a product company, to focus all resources on the development of a working solution against Penetration Testing and Denial-of-Service Attacks. Melior was able to develop the first real-time and signature-free solution, and introduced the first product to the public at the RSA conference in San Francisco in February 2004. By that time, the technology had been proven by successfully defending 300 million users of anti-Spam blacklists against virus-induced Denial-of-Service attacks launched by the Russian mob (all users of Spamhaus in London – 240 million, among them several US Federal Agencies, Governments, Universities, and Fortune 50 companies - and Sorbs & Spews in Brisbane, Australia). By January 2005, Melior introduced the full product “Barbican RNP (Real-time Network Protection)”, covering TCP, UDP, and ICMP CyberWarfare Defense capabilities against Penetration Testing, Denial-of-Service attacks, VoIP attacks, and other “junk” traffic, and, based on the same, patented underlying technology, had developed a solution to eliminate Spam (UCE) at a 99% or higher rate without any false positives (neither technology has been surpassed since).

Melior has been a full member of the NSA / DoD’s “SPOCK” program, participated actively in the FBI InfraGuard program and US Secret Service “North Texas Electronic Crimes Task Force”, and presented the technology to the US Department of Homeland Security, NATO C3 Network Security in The Hague, Netherlands, as well as many other relevant institutions and corporations.

While Melior, Inc. CyberWarfare Defense was very successful in developing the only working defense against distributed Denial-of-Service dDoS attacks (and successfully protected a total user base of 300 million people against such attacks), financially it was not (insufficient capital).

More at: www.dDoS.com - Video Link

Download and watch the 12-min Melior Demo Video (156 MB, AVI Format, March 2003)

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