SCIT Labs

SCIT Labs commercializes Self-Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance (SCIT), a moving-target-defense technique that continuously rotates and refreshes virtual server instances back to a pristine state — as often as once a minute — so that even an intrusion an attacker manages to achieve is automatically wiped out before it can be leveraged for lasting access. Rather than trying to detect and block every attack, SCIT assumes some intrusions will succeed and is designed to limit the damage window and preserve forensic evidence of what happened during each short-lived instance.

Founded in 2007 as a spin-out of George Mason University, SCIT Labs is based in the Fairfax, Virginia area and has been developed in part through Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security research funding, including SBIR contracts such as a $389,000 Navy award. The underlying technology has been the subject of peer-reviewed academic publications and has won innovation recognition including the UK’s Cyber Security Challenge and the Global Security Challenge.

SCIT Labs remains a very small company — reported at around seven employees and roughly $750,000 in annual revenue as of 2025 — reflecting a research-and-government-contract-driven business rather than a broadly commercialized enterprise product. The moving-target-defense concept is technically distinctive and academically well-documented, but the company’s scale suggests limited current market reach outside of niche government and specialized enterprise deployments.