Scalable High-Assurance Technology for Detecting Compromised Host Computers

Abstract

Explosive improvements in commercial computer technology and tight budget constraints have driven the military to use commodity operating systems as the foundation for its latest information technology. Unfortunately, the ability of commodity operating systems to protect themselves has not greatly improved. (Commodity systems are defined as those that are both widely available and widely used.) As a result, it is difficult to build an information system that can protect military data according to its criticality and value. Additional technology is needed to strengthen the security infrastructure of military information systems. The problem we are addressing here is not one of nuisance attacks such as the viruses reported by the news media.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA523038

Entities

People

  • J. Mcdermott
  • Jiangyi Luo
  • W. Snook

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commodities
  • Computations
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Device Drivers
  • Host Computers
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Load Monitoring
  • National Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Economics