Covert Defenses is one of three Purdue startups to win first place at the Indianapolis Innovation Showcase

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The identity theft, ransomware and cyberattack prevention technology that emerged from Purdue University nuclear engineering professor Hany Abdel Khaliq's lab has grown into an award-winning startup called Covert Defenses. Headquartered in West Lafayette, with offices in Lexington, Kentucky and Knoxville, Tennessee, the company recently won first place in the Indiana Venture Club's Innovation Showcase competition, along with two other Purdue startups. The June competition drew 20 promising startups and 240 entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders and innovation enthusiasts.

Covert Defenses LLC, which won first place in the digital technology category of the competition, offers a new technology that monitors, prevents and self-corrects whenever bad actors, whether inside or outside an organization, attempt to digitally disrupt or stop operations. The origins of the technology, described here in 2021, are also described in a 2020 paper written by Abdel Khaliq, an associate at CERIAS (Purdue University Center for Information Assurance and Security Education and Research), in Nuclear Technology magazine. The company's dual-use Covert Cognizance platform also ensures zero downtime during cyberattacks on military drones, diverse industrial systems such as oil and gas production, and public utilities. Covert Defenses was founded by Abdel Khaliq and Arvind Sundaram, who earned his PhD in nuclear engineering from Purdue University in 2022.

The second Purdue-related #1 ranking went to Amplified Sciences in the life sciences category. The life science diagnostics startup is focused on accurately detecting and preventing the risk of debilitating diseases, including deadly cancers. Amplified Sciences, which conducts its research and development operations in Purdue Research Park, bases its diagnostic tests on technology invented by V. Jo Davisson, professor of medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology in the Purdue College of Pharmacy and faculty member of the Purdue Cancer Institute and the Purdue Drug Discovery Institute. Davisson serves as the company's chief scientific officer. The company licenses Davisson's intellectual property through the Purdue Innovates Technology Commercialization Office.

The final winner in the Ag Tech/Hard Tech category was Insignum AgTech, a Purdue University startup whose technology allows farmers' crops to speak using pigments. Whatever challenges nature brings — disease, pests, reduced fertility — the plants can show farmers what they need to thrive. With technology approved by the USDA last year, the startup, founded by former Purdue postdoctoral researcher Kyle Mohler, is being praised for reimagining the future of agriculture.

In April 2023, Insignum AgTech and Becks signed an agreement to test Insignum's corn traits with Becks' elite varieties. In 2022, Insignum AgTech received a $100,000 investment from Purdue Ag-Celerator, an agricultural innovation fund managed by Purdue Foundry, with support from the Purdue College of Agriculture, Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization and the agricultural industry. The Foundry and OTC are now members of the Purdue Innovates network.

About Indiana Venture Club

Since our founding in 1984, the Indiana Venture Club has thrived on the ideas and hard work of our members. We are dedicated to helping investors build their networks and make an impact. Creating an entrepreneurial, business-friendly environment that is attractive to investors is essential to the continued success of Indiana's new and established companies. This principle guides the work of the Indiana Venture Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and investors succeed. Join us for our 16th year and experience firsthand the energy and innovation that shapes Indiana's entrepreneurial spirit.

About Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research institution that demonstrates excellence at scale. Ranked among the top 10 public universities in the U.S. and with two universities ranked in the top four, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with unmatched quality and scale. More than 105,000 students learn at Purdue in a variety of ways and places, with nearly 50,000 learning face-to-face at the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue's main campus has kept tuition rates constant for 13 consecutive years. Learn how Purdue never stops working toward its next big leap, including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business, Purdue Computing and One Health initiatives, at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.

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