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IARPA Solicits For CAUSE Program Forecasting Cyber Attacks

Monday, July 20th, 2015

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IARPA Solicits For CAUSE Program Forecasting Cyber Attacks

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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a broad agency announcement for its Cyber-attack Automated Unconventional Sensor Environment (CAUSE) program.CAUSE seeks to fund research into methods that can provide accurate and timely forecasts of cyber attacks, the posting on FedBizOpps said.IARPA highlighted most data breaches are detected by external parties, suggesting cyber attacks may be detected earlier by using external sensors outside an organization’s boundaries, compared to internal…

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