INVICTA
| INVICTA NETWORKS |
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| Official Website: http://www.invictanetworks.com |
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| Country: Please specify country |
| Location: 13873 Park Center Road, Suite 400, Vienna, Virgina 20171 United States |
| Founded: 1999 |
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| Contact |
| Phone: 703-788-8200 |
| Fax: 703-788-8220 |
Contents
Background
"Invicta Networks, Inc. develops and markets network security products for enterprises and organizations in the United States." Businessweek
Products
- [patent applications http://bit.ly/RLNIFf Patent Applications]
- InvisiLAN, a network security product that defends a company's private network and information assets from internal and external intrusion attempts and denial of service attacks.
- "Invicta Networks' technology, called Variable Cyber Co-ordinates System, involves changing the local part of a computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address. The number of number of local addresses is artificially increased to make location more complicated. The next IP address is also chosen using a random number generator that is built into a specially designed network card..." (Sounds like TOR)
Countries using products
Reports
- 9.9.2005 Crescent Technology Ventures PLC invests in Invicta Networks Incentered into a Share Purchase Agreement, to purchase a minority stake of 400,000 Common Shares at $0.50 per share.
- 6.15.2001 Crypto-Gram Newsletter Invicta Networks by Bruce Schneier, Founder and CTO, Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.
- 5.23.2001 Hide and seek by Will Knight, New Scientist
- 5.23.2001 Bye bye firewalls? Geek.com
- 4.20.2001 Days Before Arrest, Suspected Spy Sought Job Outside F.B.I. By JAMES RISEN, New York Times
- 6.9.2000 Ex-KGB major leads US war against hackers, Telegraph UK
- Company Profile in Businessweek
Tech & Business Partners
- Paladin
People Responsible
Board Members
- Victor Sheymov, Founder & President of Invicta Networks Inc.
Mr. Sheymov has more than 30 years of security experience.
Mr. Sheymov performed scientific research involving guidance systems for use in the Soviet "Star Wars" missile defense program.
In 1971, Mr. Sheymov joined the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA. Serving in a variety of technical and operational positions, by the end of the decade, he was responsible for coordinating all aspects of KGB overseas cipher communications security.
In 1980, he defected to the United States and worked as a contractor for the NSA for more than 15 years.
He is the author of "Tower of Secrets," in which he describes his experience with the KGB and his defection to the United States.
Mr. Sheymov has appeared on many national news programs including 48 Hours, Dateline, The Larry King Show, McNeil-Lehrer, Charlie Rose and the McLaughlin Report.
He also authored articles appearing in The Washington Post, Barron's, National Review and other publications.
He graduated from Moscow State Technical University in 1970. Mr. Sheymov also holds an executive MBA.
- R. Woolsey Jr., Paladin Capital Group
2020 K Street NW, Washington, District Of Columbia 20006 United States
Phone: 202-293-5590 Fax: 202-293-5597 Age: 71
Mr. Woolsey serves as a Director of Invicta Networks Inc.
Hon. R. James Woolsey, Jr., "Jim", is a Venture Partner at Lux Capital Management. He joined Lux Capital Management on April 26, 2011. At the firm, Mr. Woolsey helps identify novel breakthroughs and new investment opportunities in Energy that offer significant economic and environmental benefits, and can help end America’s addiction to foreign energy resources.
He serves as a Managing Director and Chairman of Strategic Advisory Group of Paladin Capital Group and Homeland Security Fund. Mr. Woolsey is a Member of Investment Committee of Paladin Homeland Security Fund, L.P. and Paladin Homeland Security II, L.P.
He is an of Counsel at Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues.
Mr. Woolsey served as Director of Central Intelligence Agency.
He served as a Senior Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., where he served as a Vice President From July 2002 to March 2008. Mr. Woolsey joined the firm’s Virginia office in 2002.
He also serves as an Advisor at Changing World Technologies, Inc. and a Venture Partner and Senior Advisor in the CleanTech practice at VantagePoint Venture Partners until January 2011. Mr. Woolsey joined the firm as a Venture Partner in 2008 after serving as a member of VantagePoint’s Advisory Council for the prior two years.
He advises companies on how to protect themselves from potential threats and vulnerabilities, including direct risks to personnel, information, and physical properties and equipment-as well as indirect risks to business markets and channels, supply chains, and external infrastructure.
Mr. Woolsey served as a Partner and Attorney at Shea & Gardner specializing in commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He practiced at the firm for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Mr. Woolsey serves on a range of government, corporate, and non-profit advisory boards and chairs several, including that of the Washington firm, ExecutiveAction LLC.
Mr. Woolsey serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board of Crescent Technology Ventures Plc and Vuance, Ltd., Vuance, Inc., Member of Executive Advisory Board of Clean Energy Systems, Inc., and Member of Advisory Board of BioDefense Corporation.
He serves as the Chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC
Mr. Woolsey served as a Director of Martin Marietta and British Aerospace, Inc.
He previously served as a Director of Fairchild Industries Inc., Fibersense Technology Corp., USF&G Corporation, Sun Healthcare Group Inc., Yurie Systems Inc., Titan Corporation Limited, Celunol Corp, and DynCorp International Inc.
Mr. Woolsey also served as a Member of Senior Advisory Board of GlobalOptions Group Inc., Member of Advisory Board of Creative Solutions With Art Inc., and Trustee of Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He also Chairs the Board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and is a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
He serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.
He serves as Co-Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger.
He serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.
Previously he served as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a Trustee of Stanford University.
Mr. Woolsey served as a Member of Advisory Board at Myriant Corporation.
Mr. Woolsey served as also the Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995;
the Ambassador and Chief Negotiator for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty in Vienna from 1989 to 1991;
Delegate at Large, on a part-time basis, to the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks; and the Defense and Space Talks in Geneva from 1983 to 1986,
Under Secretary of the Navy 1977 to 1979,
and the General Counsel to the U.S. Senate committee on Armed Services from 1970 to 1973.
Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence.
He was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST) and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1983 to 1986.
As an officer in the U.S. Army, Mr. Woolsey was an Adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, from 1969 to 1970.
Mr. Woolsey has previously served as a Member of The National Commission on Terrorism from 1999 to 2000;
The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998;
The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989;
The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), from 1985 to 1986;
and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. In 2003,
Consulting magazine named him to its list of Top 25 Consultants in the United States.
In 2009, he was the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
He is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy and intelligence.
Mr. Woolsey holds a M.A. Degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, an A.B. Degree, with great distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University, and an L.L.B. degree from Yale Law School, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Management Team
Investors
- 9.9.2005 Crescent Technology Ventures PLC invests in Invicta Networks Incentered into a Share Purchase Agreement, to purchase a minority stake of 400,000 Common Shares at $0.50 per share.
Major Shareholders
Other Info
IP & Servers
