Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/02/spy-research-agency-building-psychic-machines-predict-hacks/105882/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
February 23, 2015

Imagine if IBM's Watson -- the "Jeopardy!" champion supercomputer -- could 
answer not only trivia questions and forecast the weather, but also 
predict data breaches days before they occur.

That is the ambitious, long-term goal of a contest being held by the U.S. 
intelligence community.

Academics and industry scientists are teaming up to build software that 
can analyze publicly available data and a specific organization's network 
activity to find patterns suggesting the likelihood of an imminent hack.

The dream of the future: A White House supercomputer spitting out 
forecasts on the probability that, say, China will try to intercept 
situation room video that day, or that Russia will eavesdrop on Secretary 
of State John Kerry's phone conversations with German Chancellor Angela 
Merkel.

IBM has even expressed interest in the "Cyber-attack Automated 
Unconventional Sensor Environment," or CAUSE, project. Big Blue officials 
presented a basic approach at a Jan. 21 proposers' day.

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