DARPA seeks innovations in network monitoring

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for new ways to monitor the military’s burgeoning computer networks for attacks, according to a July 31 agency statement.

The envisioned size of the Global Information Grid and the advent of Internet Protocol Version 6 on the Defense Department’s networks present “new challenges” to information assurance, DARPA says.

As military networks continue to grow, security threats to those networks are shrinking in size and “signature,” which makes them very hard to detect, the statement said. “As a result, many conventional approaches to defending our networks will not be sustainable.” See FCW.com story. Also, BAA07-52.