Technology Pathways Releases ProDiscover Version 4.8

September 19, 2006; 07:38 AM
Technology Pathways, LLC announced that it has begun shipping ProDiscover version 4.8 with several groundbreaking features including BIOS imaging capability, support for VMWare 5.0, and an enhanced ProScript API. These new features enhance the already tremendous value of ProDiscover, which was recently rated as “Best Value” in the forensic software category by SC Magazine.

“The new BIOS imaging capability is an industry first and was developed at the request of a government client that identified a new type of Trojan that infects the BIOS of a computer.” stated Christopher Brown, Founder and CTO of Technology Pathways. “He needed a way to find this new threat to national security, so we added the BIOS imaging capability to ProDiscover.” continued Brown. “This insidious Trojan uses code added to the start up BIOS of a computer to re-infect it even after it has been completely re-built or cleaned of malicious code, thus returning control to the hacker even after the computer is thought to be safe. The new BIOS imaging capability allows investigators to image the computer BIOS of a suspect machine to insure no alterations to the BIOS have been done by hackers.”

VMWare support enables images created by ProDiscover to be easily loaded into VMWare 5.0 and run to investigate the operation of suspected systems. This is a powerful tool for investigators to determine exactly what any malicious code is doing in a safe environment.

ProScripts API enables the control of ProDiscover through industry standard Perl scripts. This enables investigators to automate much of the data collection and analysis of data or to launch ProDiscover at the onset on an incident to gather data automatically for later review and analysis. The enhancements to the ProScript API will allow more control over the application and make it even easier to control ProDiscover via Perl scripts.

Technology Pathways, LLC is a leading edge provider of computer and network security tools and services for the Corporate IT, government, education, and legal communities. The ProDiscover family of products provides affordable software solutions in the areas of computer forensics, incident response, system auditing, internal investigations and electronic discovery. Technology Pathways products and services are utilized nationally by major corporations, government agencies, universities, consultants and law enforcement agencies.

ProDiscover is a registered trademark of Technology Pathways, LLC.
VMWare is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation.