DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $3.75 Million In Prizes 10
An anonymous reader writes "Computer security experts from academia, industry and the larger security community have organized themselves into more than 30 teams to compete in DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge, a tournament designed to speed the development of automated security systems able to defend against cyberattacks as fast as they are launched. The Challenge plans to follow a 'capture the flag' competition format that experts have used for more than 20 years to test their cyber defense skills. The winning team from the CGC finals stands to receive a cash prize of $2 million. Second place can earn $1 million and third place $750,000."
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Of course it doesn't include that. One of the quiet realizations of the information age is that more powerful groups are able to leverage any given information better through their ability to acquire new information and tools to parse information rapidly.
The pragmatic reality is that this makes realpolitik the default relationship of government to technology. And it's not clear that are real demand for restraint is going to outweigh the potential leverage all that information gives intelligence workers.
So we are building a machine that can counter hack (Score:2)
only 3.75 million? (Score:2)
How about some cash on code reviews? (Score:2, Interesting)
I wonder if the money for this would be well spent coding a hypervisor that is provably secure. If this means going to Ada 2012 as the language for coding, so be it. The goal is to get this out of the way.
From there, random scans of a VM's memory structure and maybe even a snapshot on the SAN level and a scan of the filesystem. If a rootkit exists in RAM, the VM can be snapshotted for forensic purposes and rolled back, or the networks connections it touches shift to honeypot networks/machines.
Of course,
Unfortunately, still no prize ... (Score:2)