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Same here. Mark articulated just that in the trade show interview as being his goal "in a couple years".
Yeah, and isn't it interesting that Rudy has been running his own cyber security firm after he served as Mayor of NYC. Seems like cyber security is very high on the priority list of the incoming Administration.
We went up 22% last week and we are how much beneath that gain this week? Also, the trading week is not over!
Retired USMC General Mattis had his confirmation hearing today. He spoke of the need of a "clear cyberwarfare doctrine". I am confident that under the leadership of the "Warrior Monk" one will soon be developed at DOD. With the support of a soon to be Commander-In-Chief who promised "I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense" I am confident our troops will get the best defensive software on their issue I-Phone 6s. I wonder who makes that?
That was last year's date. If they stay true to form the year-end 10-K will hit the wires on Monday the 17th of April due to the Good Friday Wall Street holiday. Sorry to be the bearer of frustrating news!
Yeah, I can't complain either. According to TD Ameritrade I was up 123% for the year (2016) on my SFOR position. I'm quite comfortable with that as a long term investor.
SFOR came out with Mobile Trust version 3 just this summer.
Yeah, SFOR couldn't have a heavier hitter than Beau "BO" Dietel on it's side! I had no idea he owned ACS.
The last year-end 10-K came out 4/14/16.
Yeah, and BO Dietl is a friend of President-Elect Trump. Not a bad connection IMHO. Long & Strong SFOR!
Dear Congressman Pompeo,
I was greatly encouraged to hear President-Elect Trump announce you will co-chair the team formulating the National Anti-Hacking Plan yesterday. As a retired military intelligence officer and former HQ/EUCOM member, I was alarmed when I read EUCOM’s Lt/Gen Ben Hodges AFN interview in Poland during the NATO Operation Anaconda field exercise in June. In it he stated: “Neither (unclassified) radio communications nor email are secure” and “I assume everything I write on my BlackBerry is being monitored.” I believe he’s absolutely right! This COMSEC problem can become an OPSEC one with dire consequences in the near future by helping enable enemy targeteers to put munitions on American targets and troops, as I did to our country’s enemies as a targets intelligence officer. I helped put guided munitions on their personnel, equipment and facilities.
As you are aware, our military is switching from Androids to the Chinese made I-Phone 6. These issue I-Phones have inadequate protection against hacking and exploitation by hostile intelligence services, exposing them to be found, targeted and killed, preventing mission success. Troops will soon deploy with these I-Phones.
Last winter I became concerned about protecting my personal information and financial information from hackers. I found out that the anti-virus programs out there fail to protect against the zero day attacks that key- loggers and click-jackers use. I wanted multi-layered defense and anti-screen capture capabilities. I read that “Silicon Review” recognizes Strike Force Technologies as the world’s leading provider of patented, military grade keystroke encryption, out of band authentication and 2 factor authentication. I purchased via Amazon and installed their Mobile Trust product on my mobile device. I also encouraged family and friends to do likewise.
Mobile Trust is now being sold in brick and mortar stores nationwide. It was easy to install, costs $30 a year for two I-phones, does not slow things down or cause any other problems. I did this only after Strike Force Technologies settled with Microsoft over patent infringement in January, 2016. In full disclosure I was so impressed with Mobile Trust that I bought SFOR stock. Now that I have written you using my retired rank and specialty I am forbidden by the honor code to add to that position. Please plan on getting our troops something to fix this tremendous COMSEC problem. I don’t even care if it’s Mobile Trust version 3! They just need something better than the standard consumer encryption Apple provides its I-Phone 6. It is nowhere near the level of protection they need. View this as a serious chink in their armor to be filled before the next conflict.
The outgoing POTUS forwarded my letter to him, to the DOD/CIO office for action. However, no defensive software was provided our troops due to the Congressional budget impasse. With the recent passage of the 2017 DOD Appropriations Act, funds are finally available to do this. Please help! If I can be of any further service to you or our country in this matter please don’t hesitate to e-mail, call or mail me at: (contact info. Withheld)
Sincerely,
4 Sleddogs
Major USAF Retired
Sent via Priority Mail to his office whose address is as follows:
2452 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20501
I recognize that you have established that in your mind. Only after a defensive software vendor has been awarded a DOD contract will be able to establish conclusively which vendor has continuing linkage. Until then, nobody knows for sure. As far as those guidelines are concerned, military operational necessity is more important than regulations. I have seen regulations waived to get the mission accomplished. You & I come from two different worlds. Mine was operations, yours financial.
Rudy Giuliani was picked by President-Elect Trump to form a team of private cyber security experts. He currently runs an international security consulting firm. Looks like I've got yet another to write about the SFOR solution to the military issue I-Phone 6 COMSEC problem! Long & Strong SFOR.
They might do just that.
You're right at the Pentagon, my work is done. As encouraged by a senior Congressional staffer, I wrote the Chiefs of every service component (4-star level) and the 3-star level who would have input on resolving their mobile device communications security problem. A total of a dozen Generals, Admirals & civilian equivalents were written via Priority Mail. I must now focus on those tasked today by President-Elect Trump to come up with an intelligence report encompassing an anti-hacking plan. This is to be done within 90 days of the new administration taking office 1/20/17. Those spearheading this effort are Congressman Mike Pompeo (nominee CIA) and Senator Dan Coats (nominee National Intelligence Director). Hopefully, letters to their current offices will get to them. If so, they will become aware of the potential SFOR solution to our military's mobile device problem, Mobile Trust, version 3. Time to get writing. Wish me luck!
Sorry, but I was quoting Admiral Lytle directly. However, point well taken. I will try to avoid military abbreviations and jargon or at least add definitions as a foot note for clarification. I appreciate your constructive criticism.
IMHO it is to give the SFOR Blank Rome legal team a depth and breadth of technical expertise it lacked. Now they won't have to depend as much on outside expert witness testimony in court. Also, as a previous poster wrote, he has already been victorious in IP litigation. Good strategy adding another home run hitter to the team.
As Winston Churchill said in his shortest ever, after dinner speech I will "Never, never, never, never, never give up!" He then sat down to thunderous applause. Long & Strong SFOR!
Yes, Nil Illegitimi Carborundum is also my personal motto.
I am resolved that in some small way I will help the troops get the best defensive software out there on their issue I-Phone 6s.
Regardless of any and all opposition.
Long & Strong SFOR!
Thank you for sharing that! It reinforces what he's written on and spoke about the subject. Like I wrote earlier, we should know with the release of the 2nd Q of 2017 if SFOR has any part to play in that "hacking defense" or not. Until then, I remain long &strong SFOR!
Yeah, and when they are moaning & groaning about chasing the SFOR pps North I'll say to them, cry me a river!
Sounds like a reasonable request to me! As Vice Admiral Marshall B. Lytle III Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber CIO wrote to me "The National Information Assurance Partnership and the Joint Interoperability Test Command are respectively tasked with ensuring that commercial products used on National Security Systems meet the Department's cybersecurity and interoperability requirements". I trust they will do their job and do it well. Until their test results are in I remain long & strong SFOR!
True. The last one was over 14 months ago. When this much ballyhooed topic was recently revisited SFOR Mark Kay said "No R/S". I and others believe him.
I have stated here before I am not an IT expert. Also, that I never served in US Cyber Command. Because I do not have a graduate degree in IT I do not know just how those who do conduct their highly technical evaluation of software. I completely trust those experts to do their jobs well. As far as me being "uniformed" WRONG! I was an end user of much IT as a combat intelligence officer so I have that operational perspective.
Also, as an ordinary consumer I can say unabashedly SFOR products work for me!
When the 1st Q 2017 results are released we will all have the empirical evidence we need to make a rational decision if SFOR is a long-term hold or not. Until I see those figures and read that commentary I remain long & strong SFOR!
Nope, I don't understand their technical evaluation process. I do not have a graduate degree in IT. People who work in U.S. Cyber Command, DISA and MITRE do. I trust the technical experts to do their evaluating before they turn it over to the FFEIC bureaucrats for their insight to resolve any problems so whatever defensive software vendor can be brought on board the DOD procurement cycle. Thankfully, technical expertise & input is rated much higher than that of the Byzantine bureaucracy. Victory on the battlefield is aided by getting cutting edge IT, like SFOR's, into the hands of the warfighters ASAP!
Hey, that's great! I can't wait until your military record as a Major General is pulled and reviewed to determine if you are legit as mine was when I wrote POTUS about the SFOR solution to the military mobile device COMSEC problem, Mobile Trust.
Show me another IT company with the IP that predates Ram's patent
on OOBA for mobile devices at the United States Patent Office!
Show me a better product that Mobile Trust version 3 to secure our military issue I-Phone 6s. "Can't even get a shot" eh? I'll let the Ph.Ds. at U.S. Cyber Command, DISA and MITRE see if they "get a shot". Until then, I am long & strong SFOR!
"Can't even get a shot" WRONG! "I appreciate the referral to products developed and offered by Strike Force Technologies. This information has been provided our information technology and cyber security communities for evaluation" Sincerely, Timothy M. Strickland U.S. Coast Guard Chief of Business Operations Command, Control, Communications, Computing, & Information Technology (C4IT) Service Center. What part of "evaluation" don't you understand?
Throughout the history of the 20th and now 21st century of American defense procurement the military, be it the earlier War Department, to today's DOD has been flexible. To this day it is not ossified or completely hamstrung by the civilian bureaucrats.
When some inventor, like SFOR's Ram, has the best gizmo that meets their pressing field requirements, rules are bent, exceptions have been made (sole source) and the gizmo gets into the hands of operators like I supported to get the job done. Thankfully, the bean counters and lawyers don't call the shots. The generals and admirals still do! Making sure the paperwork is in order then has followed procurement of the gizmo from the obscure, little company started by the brilliant inventor & his colleagues.
I served in SAC during the Cold War. I remember Soviet disinformation campaigns. We will see which of us is right about SFOR after the new POTUS, who I am writing 1/20/17, has been in office 100 days. Until then I am long & strong SFOR!
Yeah, I've got to ask what is wrong with getting the troops the best defensive software out there, SFOR's Mobile Trust, version 3 (IMHO) on their issue mobile devices? Why don't some people want to fix the chink in our COMSEC armor allowing exploitation by hostile intelligence services?
When it comes to military "operational necessity" in support of the mission I've seen guidelines yes even regulations waived and exceptions granted. Your world is the civilian one of banking & finance. Mine was the military. What you're posting is simply this: If US Cyber Command, DISA, MITRE or whoever is evaluating SFOR product (as written by the USCG Business Manager) finds that Mobile Trust actually fills their unmet need for COMSEC of military issue mobile devices they won't be allowed to buy it by the bean counters. I know of some very senior officers, who take care of their troops, that would beg to differ with you!
You're right of course. Clearing up misinformation on SFOR is entertaining.
Share price is falling? I'm a long-term investor so I look at long term charts. Looking at the one year chart I can clearly see a gradually ascending triangle. That's the kind of star I hitch my wagon to because I've done my DD on SFOR. I know what I own and its tremendous potential. Yes, this is the high risk/high pay-off part of my portfolio. But I have found "You have to risk it if you want the biscuit" as a Brit told me once is very true.
He has yet to assume the mantle of Commander In Chief. So the jury is still out on judging the man on his keeping faith with the troops. His first 100 days in office will of course be critical in determining if he intends to deliver on his promise
to "make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense". SFOR may or may not become a small part in meeting that goal. IMHO We share holders won't even have an inkling until the 2nd Q of 2017 results are released because with COMSEC, Uncle Sam plays his cards pretty close to his chest! Until then, I am long & strong SFOR.
Great find ZPaul! Thanks for sharing that with us. Sheim Co. definitely has a large geographic footprint.
I meant every word Gold49er! You and ZPaul bring to bear an amazing ability to drill down & get the SFOR facts and post them in a clear, concise way. I return the salute of a fellow vet. I will continue to try to help the warfighters who have replaced us while forbidden by the honor code to exploit that for personal gain, hence my frozen position. In full disclosure, realize I want the BEST defensive software for our troops. Even if that is determined by US Cyber Command, DISA, MITRE or whoever not to be SFOR's. I will perfectly understand and support their expert decision as I know you will.
T-Minus Ten And Counting until there is a new Sheriff in town. One that on Oct 3,2016 delivered this very encouraging statement.
"I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense" Donald J. Trump. IMHO he will get the troops the defensive software they so desperately need on their issue I-Phone 6s and it will be the best defensive software out there! And you wonder why I'm long & strong SFOR?
Ah, the much ballyhooed R/S rumor. Yes, drag out that old chestnut yet again despite the fact Mark Kay kept his word when he promised "No R/S" and there hasn't been one in over 14 months!