Events

Aerstone is part of a team competing in the DI2E plugfest Jun 01 – 02, 2016. The DI2E Plugfest is the annual demonstration of advancements in the DI2E featuring DI2E Programs of Record, COCOMS and Agencies, Intelligence Investment Fund, 43 displays, dozens of demonstrations, talks from senior leadership, 4 mashup challenge teams, hundreds of attendees.

Our team comprises of Booz Allen Hamilton, SDLGov, BasisTech, MarkLogic, Integral Mind, Splunk and others. Each team member is making their web services available in an effort to create a demonstration that showcases the orchestration of API services. The final solution will be a creation of a mobile app that will allow users to take a picture of a foreign document with their cell phone and provide text analysis and english translation back to the user.

Aerstone is making SIFT™’s OCR microservice available for this effort. Our service automatically rotates, pre-processes, and converts the image taken by a cell phone into text. The result of our service is passed onto other text analysis and text translation services.

In late April of 2015, Aerstone will be presenting a presentation at CS Week in Charlotte, NC on the FTC Red Flags Rule, and its applicability to the Utility industry. This rule requires companies under FTC jurisdiction, including financial institutions and certain creditor organizations, to develop an identity theft prevention program. Affected organizations must put early warning systems in place to detect the potential patterns, practices, or specific activities indicating the possibility of identity theft. Aerstone’s presentation, presented in conjunction with AAC Utility Partners and Bryan Texas Utilities, will help arm utility companies with the information they need to define the Red Flags that make sense for their organization — including credit agency alerts, suspicious documents, PII discrepancies, and suspicious account activity.

In early 2014, Aerstone exhibited at ShmooCon 2014, which is the annual east coast hacker convention.  Our booth attracted tons of traffic from attendees interested in our Atari 2600, our theremin, and (of course) information about Aerstone’s cybersecurity services. We produced two contests for attendees to tackle: our ShmooCare website that participants had to fix in order to be able to register for healthcare <smile>, and our “Magic Encoder Challenge.” Congratulations to our winners — we’ll see you in January at ShmooCon 2015, with a new set of puzzles and challenges.