DARPA Contest Aims to Create Self-Defending Networks

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http://www.eweek.com/security/darpa-contest-aims-to-create-self-defending-networks.html

By Robert Lemos
eWEEK.com
2014-06-03

Thirty teams will participate in the Cyber Grand Challenge, aiming to make 
networks smart enough to detect and repair vulnerabilities before 
attackers can exploit them.

Aiming to make computer networks and systems self-defending, more than 30 
teams will compete in the U.S. government's first-ever Cyber Grand 
Challenge, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency announced on June 
3.

The contest will challenge teams to create systems that can detect 
vulnerabilities in a network and fix them before attackers can exploit the 
flaws to penetrate the network and their underlying data stores. Defenders 
normally need to find flaws, create patches and deploy those software 
updates to harden their networks against attack. Yet, the process takes 
time. While more than 80 percent of attacks compromise systems in days, 
less than 20 percent of incidents are detected by defenders in the same 
amount of time, according to the latest Data Breach Investigations Report 
released by communications services firm Verizon.

The Cyber Grand Challenge aims to find a solution to that fundamental 
imbalance between attackers and defenders, Mike Walker, DARPA program 
manager, said in a statement announcing the contest.


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