To enhance the ability of cyber defenders within the Defense Department to more quickly ascertain if cyber attacks are taking place, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is beginning a new program aimed at reducing the time to discovery of such attacks.
DARPA’s Information Innovation Office will host an unclassified Proposers’ Day on Jan. 30 in Northern Virginia to discuss a forthcoming Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Cyber Targeted-Attack Analyzer (CAT) program.
Under the CAT program, DARPA hopes to enable cyber defenders to more quickly discover “cyber attacks by federating and correlating disparate network data sources,” the agency says in a FedBizOpps notice. “Changing the way information in the IT (information technology) infrastructure is acquired, processed and made available to cyber defenders, and providing them with connected and correlated data, will directly address the scale-of-data problem.”
DARPA says the CAT program will include two technical areas, one focused on research to address key technical challenges, and the second to provide the program with security testing and validation of the technical solution.
DARPA expects to release the BAA either later this month or in early February. [Sol. No. DARPA-SN-13-12. Contact: [email protected]]