SBIR-STTR Award

Bastille is an Enterprise Security product that uses Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Machine Learning (ML) technology to monitor the electromagnetic spectrum for radio frequency (RF) emissions from wireless devices and accurately place dots on a floor-plan map for device location, as well as send alerts when a device is found where it should not be or doing what it should not do. Bastille performs the find, fix, and track elements of the cyber kill chain. Bastille can 1) see when a new wireless device enters a space, 2) determine if the wireless device presents a cyber security or physical security threat, and 3) track the wireless device both in the physical and cyber sense as it performs its wireless functions and moves through the space. Bastille uses physical SDR sensors in an environment that constantly scan the spectrum and decode wireless emissions. Bastille can detect and monitor Cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy devices e.g. cellphones, fitness trackers, laptops, smart watches, wireless peripherals, medical wearables like hearing aids, TVs, and IoT devices like thermostats, building control systems, and smart appliances like lightbulbs. Security teams use Bastille to enforce granular policy about mobile and personal devices inside their space.

Radio Frequency (RF) devices in secure facilities significantly expand an organization’s cyber-security attack surface. By communicating with external networks from inside secure areas, unauthorized RF devices can act as a conduit for data and audio exfiltration, as well as a jumping-off point for in-bound cyber-attacks. It is critical for Air Force and DoD organizations to have a tool to detect and monitor RF devices on a variety of protocols that operate within their facilities. When an unknown device enters a facility or when an authorized device joins an external network, facility security needs to be immediately notified so that they can interdict the offending device. Bastille meets this need by using distributed Software Defined Radio (SDR) sensor arrays to detect all RF emitting devices from 60MHz to 6GHz. Bastille is unique in that it has implemented protocol decoders as field programmable gate array (FPGA) IP cores that can operate in parallel to process the massive amount of RF data present in facilities. Using patented machine learning technology, Bastille provides operators with a real-time view of all of the RF devices in their space as dots overlaid on a floor plan map of their facility.