Non-Disclosure and Proprietary Data
It's always obvious once you know the answer !
Financial Risk Management and Algorithmic Trading applications
have become strategic assets to many top tier financial
institutions.
As innovation, expertise and trade secrets
are translated into computer code, non-disclosure is becoming a big
concern to many large institutions.
RiskServers SA has many years of experience organizing work with proprietary models, confidential data and Trade Secrets.
Either as a user, supplier, outsourcer or third-party.
In most instances binding legal requirements are not enough to ensure peace of mind to those who dedicate resources to research and development.
This is especially true when trade secrets involve proprietary architectures, formulas, algorithms or even specific implementations that are then converted into computer code as they can be copied instantaneously.
Downloadable applications that contain proprietary data are even more problematic as reverse-engineering can be largely automated and producing source code from an executable or a shared library is nowadays trivial !
Throughout the years, RiskServers has managed to protect proprietary source code, compiled executables, source control systems or public web servers from highly motivated attackers with very deep pockets.
A Three Pronged Approach to protect Knowledge: D.A.C.
Disclosure, Authentication and Countermeasures
RiskServers SA follows a three pronged approach coined disclosure, authentication and countermeasures [D.A.C.] to ensure proprietary knowledge remains so.Each approach varies in degree according to the role of the recipient, his or her need to know, his or her relationship to customers, developers, management, research and development, ...etc.
1] Disclosure: Full disclosure of previous proprietary knowledge into the legally binding non-disclosure agreement [n.d.a.].
2] Authentication: Authentication of shared proprietary documents. Full or partial encryption and authentication of working source code per owner and user in the source control versioning system.
3] Countermeasures: Anti-reverse engineering and anti-debugging measures through machine code encryption, automatic executable self-destruction upon tampering or debugging attempts, etc.
RiskServers SA has spent a lot of time creating secure environments that are completely transparent to users, are very easy to manage and control and can be put in place by the owner without the "help" of additional pair of prying eyes.
Following demands, RiskServers SA has finally decided to share occasionally this knowledge to peers in the financial community who make the demand.
If you company has sensitive applications that requires active protection you can truly depend on, RiskServers' solution might be just what you need !