[ISN] ORNL team works to stop hackers

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:21:50 -0600 (CST)
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.

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