Plurilock Security Inc. announced the successful completion of the second milestone of a recent contract with the US Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"). The Victoria-based cybersecurity provider completed the milestone, the second in a series of four deliverable milestones, under a USD 198,000 contract from the DHS Science and Technology Directorate's ("S&T") Silicon Valley Innovation Program ("SVIP"). The contract tasks Plurilock with continuing to develop and refine a new generation of machine-to-machine authentication and security technologies. Under the milestone, Plurilock passed a series of internal red team tests designed to further harden the technology and prepare it for external red team testing. Plurilock to make significant progress in its development of mission-oriented cybersecurity solutions. Plurilock expects machine-to-machine authentication to become an increasingly important cybersecurity capability as smart devices, embedded computing, and the Internet of Things ("IoT") proliferate in government and business settings. The Company plans to continue to refine the technology, which enables authentication and stand-off detection for any IoT device on an enterprise network by analyzing a variety of identifying characteristics beyond IP and MAC addresses.