Pikewerks Corporation is a Huntsville, Alabama based woman owned start-up company that specializes in advanced research and development of computer security software. As of 2008, Pikewerks maintains two completed products: Electronic ArmorTM, a software based capability that protects programs from unauthorized access, reverse engineering and signature detection; and pH5TM, a forensics tool designed for live, in-memory, analysis of an operating system and running processes. Several additional products, including a secure appliance, data/database security mechanism, hypervisor protection scheme, autonomic kernel application, anti-forensics capability, data watermarking feature and situational awareness apparatus are in various stages of maturity.
The management team consists of experienced project management professionals and research engineers. The company's founder and CEO was Deputy Director of Research for The Sytex Group Inc before starting Pikewerks. She has over 10 years of experience in computer security. The Pikewerks development team includes highly skilled kernel level programmers and computer security experts, many with masters and/or doctorates in computer science, most of whom have both government and commercial experience.
Pikewerks offers innovative, one of a kind, capabilities and solutions that seamlessly integrate into its customer's production processes and operations. Furthermore, the products and services have been created by a "trusted" group of developers; which gives Pikewerks an added competitive advantage and its customers an increased level of security. Pikewerks intends to become a leading provider of computer security solutions that are ready for mass commercialization to government and commercial clients.