Hindustani78
BANNED
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 40,471
- Reaction score
- -47
- Country
- Location
Amber Corrin, C4ISR & Networks
4:35 p.m. EDT July 30, 2015
DARPA-Air Force project will track data's Internet travels
As pieces of data traverse the web, at what point exactly might a potential adversary attach malicious code en route to its destination? Right now that kind of information is a mystery, but may be solved in a new initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
THEIA – named for the Greek goddess of shining light – is a new, $4.2 million program awarded by DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. The goal is to clarify and illustrate exactly where and how data move when routed between Internet hosts – and where along the way it might be modified.
"The project has wide implications for any industry and anyone who needs to send secure information, make sure it is not manipulated during transfer, and that it arrives securely intact – but especially for those banking, shopping or trading online," Dr. Wenke Lee, primary investigator and professor in the College of Computing, said in a July 30 Georgia Tech release announcing the program. "If we have the ability to fully track how data is processed until it reaches the intended recipient, then we can better detect and stop advanced persistent threats."
The initiative will track and record data across three different layers: the point of user interaction with a program, program processing of data input, and program and network interactions with an operating system. Currently, the ability to track the flow of information is limited to only one of those layers.
"Our ultimate goal is to provide complete transparency, or full visibility, into host events and data so that APT activities cannot evade detection," Lee said. "THEIA represents what could be a significant advance over state-of-the-art approaches, which typically are forced to make arbitrary trade-offs between verifying accuracy and maintaining total computational efficiency."
4:35 p.m. EDT July 30, 2015
DARPA-Air Force project will track data's Internet travels
As pieces of data traverse the web, at what point exactly might a potential adversary attach malicious code en route to its destination? Right now that kind of information is a mystery, but may be solved in a new initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
THEIA – named for the Greek goddess of shining light – is a new, $4.2 million program awarded by DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. The goal is to clarify and illustrate exactly where and how data move when routed between Internet hosts – and where along the way it might be modified.
"The project has wide implications for any industry and anyone who needs to send secure information, make sure it is not manipulated during transfer, and that it arrives securely intact – but especially for those banking, shopping or trading online," Dr. Wenke Lee, primary investigator and professor in the College of Computing, said in a July 30 Georgia Tech release announcing the program. "If we have the ability to fully track how data is processed until it reaches the intended recipient, then we can better detect and stop advanced persistent threats."
The initiative will track and record data across three different layers: the point of user interaction with a program, program processing of data input, and program and network interactions with an operating system. Currently, the ability to track the flow of information is limited to only one of those layers.
"Our ultimate goal is to provide complete transparency, or full visibility, into host events and data so that APT activities cannot evade detection," Lee said. "THEIA represents what could be a significant advance over state-of-the-art approaches, which typically are forced to make arbitrary trade-offs between verifying accuracy and maintaining total computational efficiency."
