DARPA fuels security R&D

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1023/web-darpa-10-25-00.asp

BY Diane Frank
10/25/2000

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded four
contracts to Secure Computing Corp., pumping more than $6 million into
research and development for secure networks, DARPA announced Monday.

The first three contracts are for programs within DARPAs Third
Generation Security Initiative, which is aimed at developing advanced
mechanisms to secure the Defense Departments critical infrastructure
systems against cyberattack. The three contracts cover:

* An autonomic distributed firewall. Such a firewall is encoded to
  block automated attacks, enabling decision-makers to focus attention
  on sophisticated, strategic attacks on networks.

* An intrusion-tolerant server infrastructure. An intrusion-tolerant
  system continues to functions correctly even in the face of an
  attack.

* The Releasable Data Products Framework. The RDPF applies
  technologies that work together to produce a high-assurance
  environment for the production and release of data products.

The fourth contract is for secure high-performance virtual private
networks, a program to design secure VPNs running over high-bandwidth
network connections.

Secure Computing plans to transfer much of the technology the company
will develop for DARPA into new and existing products offered to the
commercial market. The first phase of this technology transfer is
expected to be delivered by the end of this year.


*==============================================================*
"Communications without intelligence is noise;  Intelligence
without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
================================================================
C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org
*==============================================================*

ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com
---
To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of
"SIGNOFF ISN".