Army Wants Computer That Defends Against Human-Exploit Attacks

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http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/army-wants-computer-that-defends-against-human-exploit-attacks/

By Kevin Fogarty
Slashdot
October 9, 2013

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has awarded as much as $48 million to 
researchers trying to build computer-security systems that can identify 
even the most subtle human-exploiting attacks and respond without human 
intervention.

The project will focus on detecting specific opponents and types of attack 
online, measuring the risk of specific activities, and changing the 
security environment to block or minimize those threats with the least 
cost and trouble to the victim.

The more difficult part of the research will be to develop models of human 
behavior that allow security systems decide, accurately and on their own, 
whether actions by humans are part of an attack (whether the humans 
involved realize it or not).

The Army Research Lab (ARL) announced Oct. 8 a grant of $23.2 million to 
fund a five-year cooperative effort among a team of researchers at Penn 
State University, the University of California, Davis, Univ. California, 
Riverside and Indiana University. The five-year program comes with the 
option to extend it to 10 years with the addition of another $25 million 
in funding.

The goal is to develop and evidence-based set of guidelines and analyses 
that would allow ARL security specialists to understand the security 
stance and vulnerability of Department of Defense computers, and build 
systems that would help mitigate them.

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