Fairfax-based cybersecurity firm Kryptowire gets $250K from the feds

It’s an app for other apps. A tool to find vulnerabilities in mobile apps, developed at George Mason University with funding from the Department of Homeland Security, will be sold commercially, a DHS press release announced earlier this month.
Kryptowire, the company that will be launching the product in the private sector,  was founded by George Mason computer science professor Angelos Stavrou, according to the Washington Post.

DHS granted George Mason University $250,000 in 2013 to create a system that will let government agencies inventory apps they had vetted. The department plans to renew funding to the university so Kryptowire can process more apps designed for consumer use, including from the Google Play, Amazon and iTunes stores, said Vincent Sritapan, program manager for the cybersecurity division of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency awarded Kryptowire funding in September 2013 to develop an authentication program that could use individuals’ “cognitive biometric” characteristics to identify them — their unique gait, keystroke touch or fingertip screen swipe, for instance, instead of a password.