SUMU
"The cloaking layer for the modern stack: Eliminating traffic analysis attacks, fingerprinting, and risk - across both the DNS and HTTPS layers."
SUMU's patented traffic obfuscation engine introduces controlled uncertainty into DNS and HTTP traffic, disrupting the classifiers used for surveillance, profiling, competitive intelligence, AI traffic analysis, and metadata harvesting. By making every connection statistically indistinguishable from every other, SUMU removes the identifying patterns that turn metadata into intelligence.
SUMU is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting DNS & HTTPS traffic privacy through patented traffic obfuscation technology. The company's core innovation is a traffic obfuscation engine that injects "intelligent noise" into encrypted DNS or HTTPS traffic, preventing pattern-based website fingerprinting and snooping even when queries are already encrypted.
While standard encryption protects the content of queries, it does not hide traffic patterns that allow adversaries to infer which websites a user is visiting. SUMU addresses this gap by adding obfuscation layers that make traffic patterns indistinguishable, providing a higher level of privacy for organizations and individuals operating in surveillance-sensitive environments. The technology is relevant for defense, enterprise, and privacy-conscious sectors where network traffic analysis poses a threat.
The company holds a granted patent on its traffic obfuscation methodology, positioning it as a foundational privacy layer for encrypted DNS and HTTPS communications. As encryption adoption accelerates across enterprise and government networks, SUMU provides the critical next layer of defense: protecting not just what is queried, but the metadata patterns that reveal who is querying and when.

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- Develop, test & patent HTTPMask (HTTPS) - Harden the DNSMask MVP - AI optimization & adversarial testing - Pilots with enterprise & provider partners - Compliance, licensing & IP - Position for licensing / strategic acquisition
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Patented traffic obfuscation engine injecting intelligent noise into encrypted DNS traffic
Prevents pattern-based website fingerprinting even with DoH/DoT encryption already in place
Addresses traffic analysis gaps that standard DNS encryption does not cover
Foundational metadata privacy layer for defense, enterprise, and surveillance-sensitive environments
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TEAM & INVESTORS
Scott Allan
CRO - Business Development
Chad Smith
Co-Founder and CFO
Alireza Vahid
Co-founder & Chief Technologist
Haadi Jafarian
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Matt Bauer
Co-Founder and CEO
Soeren Orlowski
Advisor
Amir Niakanlahiji
John Jordan
Advisor
Stephen Candelmo
Chief Counsel
Chris Butler
Advisor
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