Cyber Immune
Abstract
(U) Cyber security is one of the top challenges facing the DoD and the nation. Despite many years of research in this area, the security of the Internet and our computing systems continues to be insufficient to support the degree of dependence that is increasingly vested in this infrastructure by the military and industry. At the same time, in several other areas such as robotics, DARPA has made significant new breakthroughs by using the mechanisms of biological systems as inspiration for radical re-thinking of basic hardware and system designs. This project seeks to accomplish the same in the cyber-security area. It will investigate and develop new approaches to cyber-security inspired by biological systems, in order to gain major improvements. Higher levels of system security will come from new biologically inspired models that will replace the failed model of perimeter defense that currently dominates today’s information systems. This project will develop cyber-resilient systems that assume security cannot be absolute, yet a system that can still defend itself in order to maintain its (possibly degraded) capabilities, and possibly even heal itself.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- f70875764263ed96f2cbb79bd34c2256