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U.S. Army Aims to Take Guesswork Out of Cyber Defense

William Jackson writes on GCN.com:

The Army Research Office (ARO) is funding work by a consortium of private companies to develop predictive technologies that could improve the efficiency of cybersecurity tools.

The idea is to create a global system to gather and correlate security events, giving users early warning about coming attacks and aiding in the configuration of sensors, filters and other devices that detect and respond to these events, said Livio Ricciulli, chief scientist at MetaFlows, of Redlands, Calif.

MetaFlows is a member of the Cyber-Threat Analytics (Cyber-TA) project, funded by ARO. The goal of this program is a commercial service that could be used to help program security devices.

“Obviously, there is a heavy focus on making it meet Army requirements as well,” Ricciulli said. “But there definitely is a commercial component.”

posted by Fergie @ 5/20/2008 12:46:00 PM