http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=54694 By Kate Greer Staff Writer The Daily Beacon February 20, 2009 The U.S. Department of Energy challenged Oak Ridge National Laboratory to create a program with capabilities to protect cyber infrastructure. Joe Trien, of the lab’s Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, led a team of scientists to create the Ubiquitous Network Transient Autonomous Mission Entities. “It is one of many possible solutions to protect large enterprises in United States,” Trien said. UNTAME uses colonies of cyber robots to detect and protect all vulnerabilities within the cyber infrastructure of an enterprise. “The cyberbots are an inherent part of UNTAME’s software, designed to do cyber security,” Trien said. “Most enterprises have intrusion-detection centers set up in key spots, but they don’t communicate with each other.” UNTAME is different from these current programs because it prevents cyber criminals from breaking through in one spot while using a diversion at another spot within the network. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 03:21:50 PST
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