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Cracking codes in Calverton
Southolder's company in EPCAL hunts down 'bad guys' on the web
By Denise Civiletti
CALVERTON--While Riverhead Town and Suffolk County officials grapple with controversies surrounding the use and development of the Calverton Enterprise Park (EPCAL), debating everything from airports to rock music festivals proposed for the 3,000-acre site, "business as usual" goes on for the small group of companies already operating at the former Grumman site.
Among them is AdZone Research, a publicly traded high-tech firm founded in 2000 by Southold native Charles Cardona III. Occupying a small corner of the 75,000-square-foot building that once housed the Grumman flight testing and engineering center, AdZone Research has pioneered the Internet surveillance technology used by businesses to track advertising activity data for the most frequented sites on the web.
But Mr. Cardona says he has found a lucrative new market for his company's innovative technology in the months since Sept. 11, 2001: the burgeoning homeland security industry.
Seated amidst the humming computer servers that download the content of the entire Internet every two hours, Mr. Cardona explains that the technology AdZone developed to track and monitor commercial activity on the web became attractive to the government after the Sept. 11 attacks. "The various powers-that-be realized that our technology had the ability to find clandestine messages sent by terrorist organizations across the Internet," he said.
Come again?
"Well," he elaborates, "the bad guys use the web to communicate clandestinely. There are ways that the bad guys can hide messages and send them to various places. We detect those messages. We are the only ones who have the technology to do that," said the 39-year-old CEO. The technology includes stegenography, which Mr. Cardona describes as "the process of hiding messages in other elements." Those "other elements" are many, varied and complex. "It involves a lot of very complicated statistical analysis," he said.
He likened his company's mission to "looking for a thousand needles in a hundred million haystacks. Every day they move to a new haystack. You can't see where they've been moved to. You've got to find the patterns of change." The "needles" are bits of data that make up encoded messages being sent back and forth among "the bad guys."
"It's not too complicated to hide a needle in a haystack," according to Mr. Cardona. "And it's very easy to find it if you know which needle and which haystack and where in the haystack to look. The technical savvy," he says, "comes in knowing where to look, because there are so many places to hide it."
Asked to provide examples, Mr. Cardona demurred. "We found some very interesting things and we continue to do so," he said. But he said he can't give specifics because of the nature of the highly classified information. "It's pretty interesting stuff, though," he said.
Mr. Cardona, who earned degrees in astrophysics from the University of Arizona and SUNY/Stony Brook, said his company's technology employs the same sort of algorithms that he used as an astrophysicist to "track variable stars." But now, he said, he's "dealing with bad guys instead of stars."
AdZone currently employs eight people at EPCAL, but Mr. Cardona sees major expansion on the horizon.
On May 29, the company announced that it had won its "first revenue-generating contract from a major defense contractor," according to a company press release. The new partnership will use Ad Zone's Internet surveillance technology to develop a system to better identify clandestine communications on the web on behalf of federal intelligence agencies, according to the press release. Mr. Cardona said he couldn't identify the contractor "for security reasons" but it is a company that's played "a storied role in the defense of free nations.
"This contract represents the first of what we hope may be other strategic agreements with this particular defense contractor," Mr. Cardona said. He also said he expects to land contracts with other defense companies that have major security contracts with the federal government.
In April, AdZone announced the signing of a similar agreement with Boeing Autometric, a unit of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
Mr. Cardona said he expects AdZone will ultimately create 100 new jobs at EPCAL, "good jobs, not manual labor," he said. "It will be good for the town," he said. "It's exactly the kind of thing EPCAL was intended for."
More information about AdZone's contract announcements is available on the Security and Exchange Commission's website, www.sec.gov. at the center or in your home can be arranged.
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(Photo) Charles Cardona III at AdZone Research in the former Grumman engineers office building at EPCAL.
News-Review photo by Barbaraellen Koch (minus picture of Charles Cardona)
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