Case Study

Example 1

Client

 A leading PC security software company

scope

Functional and technical design, development, quality assurance, documentation, on going development and support

period

 2003 to date – on-going

type of software

 Core agent software, behavioural analysis of virus/Trojan/malware behaviour, malware behavioural blocking, operating system call level development

Skills

 Windows, UNIX and LINUX kernel skills, algorithm

Notes

 The client is the world’s largest supplier of consumer IPS software.
They required a policy driven, behavioural (i.e. non-signature based product), that could both block a high proportion of software attacks, whilst not being “noisy” or intrusive for home PC users.
The project involved complex operating system design and development skills, in conjunction with a deep behavioural analysis of malware techniques. An exceptionally high level of quality assurance was required to support a large number of home PC downloads.
The client now has approximately 1,000,000 users of the product.

Example 2

Client

 A HR and employment market application software company

scope

Technical specification development, qa, documentation, on going development and support

period

 2004 to date – on-going

type of software

 HR application for web based supply of contract staff, back office administration and timesheet control

Skills

 .NET, C#, ASP, SQL Server

Notes

 The client is the largest supplier of HR/Employment market application software in the United Kingdom, with in excess of 500 customers.
Their products are functionally leading edge, delivering real time, web based ordering and management functionality to the whole process of supply of contract staff to a wide range of industries.
The client has particular focus on UK Government contracts. Customers include some of the largest, global contract staff agencies.
A combination of high quality, rapid time to market and user interface/GUI design was required, to achieve a dominant position in a highly competitive market.

Example 3

Client

 A supplier of credit card fraud prevention software, and complex data quality management to the finance and banking sector

scope

Function design, technical specification development, QA, documentation, on going development and support

period

 2004 to date – on-going

type of software

 Data quality analysis tool for identifying underlying movements, structural changes in fast moving data, (bank trading/ credit card etc), utilising entropy analysis, mutual association technique, dynamic relationship trees, vectorization and complex/real time OLAP functionality

Skills

 Prolog, java, C++, complex behavioural algorithms

Notes

 The client is a leading edge, mathematical software house specialising predictive analytics and the application of Inductive Logic programming to complex financial sector applications

Other development projects in which the Zoral team has considerable experience include:

  • development of complex, low-latency, large-scale Data Warehousing systems utilizing Ab Initio (ETL engine) and C++
  • design and development of meta data repository and executable meta data driven rules engine
  • development of high speed, large volume data analysis and OLAP
  • developing metadata/rules driven, multi-tier, Java based GUI and visualization engines and components
  • development of custom parsers, interpreters
  • development of automated code conversion engines to convert from a source language to a target language with minimal manual intervention
  • ODBC/JDBC drivers and interfaces in C++ for vector RDBMS
  • Simba/MDX drivers and interfaces for OLAP in C++ and Java
  • development of a comprehensive security environment and host intrusion prevention system, including custom security drivers, applications, methods and procedures and implementation for a Windows 2000 operating system based topology. Implementation operating system kernel level security, databases and applications security Software utilized: C++, Assembly, Java, various RDBMS engines
  • development and implementation of real-time trading systems for a major investment bank utilizing C++/Unix
  • designed and developed a secured system for Internet payments and transfers (BSD Secure shell), for the middle office of an Investment Bank