Bastille – Leader in Enterprise Threat Detection through Software-Defined Radio

Internet of Things (IoT) and 4G/5G wireless networks have added huge number of devices and new services, where commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) IoT devices have been deployed extensively. To ensure secure operations of these systems with wireless transmission capabilities, cellular and Radio Frequency (RF) surveillance is important to monitor their activities in RF spectrum and detect unauthorized IoT devices. Specifically, in order to prevent an adversary from impersonating legitimate users using identical devices from the same manufacturer, unique “signatures” must be obtained for every individual device in order to uniquely identify each device.

Bastille is the first company to enable enterprise security teams to assess and mitigate the risk associated with the growing Internet of Radios. Bastille’s patented software and security sensors bring visibility to devices emitting radio signals (Wi-Fi, Cellular, Bluetooth, BLE, wireless dongles, and other IoT communications) in your organization’s airspace. Through its patented software-defined radio and machine learning technology, the company senses, identifies and localizes threats, providing security teams the ability to accurately quantify risk and mitigate airborne threats that could pose a danger to network infrastructure.

Leveraging Next-Generation Threat Detection Solutions

Bastille Fusion Center: The Fusion Center is available in several options to permit on-site/premise or cloud deployment as required. The Bastille Fusion center can be installed on-site as a second appliance, installed as a virtual appliance in a private cloud such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), or can function as a SaaS client in the Bastille AWS Cloud or AWS GovCloud. The Fusion Center hosts Bastille APIs and can be accessed using HTTP Rest commands. A single Fusion center is horizontally scalable and can support multiple sites.

Sensor Arrays: Bastille’s Sensor Arrays are 100 percent passive; they do not transmit, and are certified to be compliant with FCC standards. Earlier solutions from other vendors still rely on emitting RF signals to ping/poll devices. This is not suitable for any non-government customer or government customers where transmitters are not permitted in sensitive and classified spaces. Even though Bastille is entirely passive, they still gather 150+ data-fields from the devices they discover. The Bastille Sensor Array is the 4th-generation Software Defined Radio (SDR) sensor array from Bastille. It contains two scanning 802.11ac Wi-Fi receivers, two SDR receiver front ends that can each sample at 61.44 MSps and sense from 25 MHz to 6 GHz. An array of bespoke internal antennas has been optimized to maximize detection and localization performance. The Bastille Sensor Array is fully UL 2043 certified to operate in the building plenum. Given their plenum certification, Bastille sensors can be, and are typically installed above the ceiling tiles. Alternatively they can be suspended from a ceiling or placed on top of shelves.

Bastille Express: Bastille is the established leader in real-time Cellular, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Wi-Fi detection and location systems. Bastille Express offers a portable and rapid set-up solution for temporary and forward deployed locations. Set up in a couple of hours, Bastille Express can detect and locate unauthorized and authorized Cellular, Bluetooth, BLE and Wi-Fi devices operating within an area up to 5,000 sq. feet such as a conference meeting room, tent site, remote office, hotel room or speaking location. Bastille gives you visibility into the wireless devices in your space. Where they are and if/when they pair to other devices. This allows for 24x7 enforcement of device policy for Wi-Fi, Cellular, Bluetooth and BLE protocols, even if the devices are inadvertently brought into areas where they should not be brought into, or inadvertently not put in airplane mode.

The Visionary Leader Upfront

Chris Risley is the Chief Executive Officer of Bastille. He has over 25 years of software business experience during which he has led nine venture-backed startups resulting in one IPO and four sales to public companies. Most recently Mr. Risley was CEO of Defense.Net which sold to F5 Networks. Prior to this Chris was Chairman of StreamBase which sold to TIBCO. He was also CEO of Digital Reef until it was acquired by TransPerfect in late 2012. Prior to that, Chris was CEO of Nominum, Inc., His background also includes service as CEO of NewChannel, an eBusiness service provider sold to LivePerson, and as Chairman and CEO of ON Technology Corp., a network security software provider acquired by Symantec.

“Bastille’s ability to sense, identify and localize threats makes it valuable for a range of use cases across the enterprise.”