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New Army Cyber Officers Hack Improvements Into Darpa's 'plan X'
"Plan X" is a four-year, $120-million program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that attempts, among other things, to make it easier to visualize a network and its components, to automate the task of identifying as hostile or benign anomal
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Plan X is a four-year, $120-million program designed develop platforms to plan for, conduct, and assess cyberwarfare.
Plan X will develop technologies to make it easier for humans to visualize a network and its components, to automate the task of identifying as hostile or benign the anomalies that might appear in that network, to provide intuitive symbology that accurately conveys to users the status of various components of a network, and to make it easier for inexperienced users to take action to prevent hostile parties from gaining access to and causing damage to a network.
As part of development of one component of Plan X, DARPA recently held a week-long hackathon, during which computer experts were divided into teams to determine the best ways to analyze a large set of network data they had been provided as indicators of potentially dangerous network activity. The teams tried to create code and algorithms to make analyzing the data easier, and the best of those would be used to improve Plan X components.
Plan X researchers want to be able to find what is abnormal on the network, identify if it is innocuous or malicious, and then take appropriate action.
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