http://fcw.com/articles/2010/03/19/einstein-3-test-intrusion-prevention-system.aspx By Ben Bain FCW.com March 19, 2010 The Homeland Security Department plans to partner with a commerical Internet Service Provider and another government agency to pilot technology developed by the National Security Agency to automate the process of detecting cyber intrusions into civilian agencies. systems, making it possible to thwart the attacks before damage is done. The new technologies and automated processes of Einstein 3 are improvements over Einstein 1 and 2 technology, DHS officials said. Einstein 3's predecessors focused on intrusion detection, allowing analysts to scan records of connections to agencies. systems and use signatures to scan network traffic for cyber threats. Einstein 3 would add the ability to prevent those intrusions. Einstein 3 also would improve information sharing by DHS' U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), allowing the department to automate the process for sending alerts about detected network intrusions. The department's privacy office detailed the plans to pilot technologies and processes that could be used for Einstein 3 in a privacy impact assessment (PIA) for the exercise on March 18. The E-Government Act of 2002 required agencies to complete privacy impact assessments for substantially revised or new information technology system. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Mar 21 2010 - 23:02:01 PDT
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