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posted by martyb on Friday September 16 2016, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the working-on-the-chain,-gang dept.

Galois and Guardtime Federal today announced they have jointly been awarded a $1.8 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to verify the correctness of Guardtime's Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI). The contract will fund a significant effort that aims to advance the state of formal verification tools and all blockchain-based integrity monitoring systems.

[...] Integrity monitoring systems like Guardtime's KSI detect evidence of advanced persistent threats (APTs) as they work to remain hidden in networks. APTs undermine the security of networks for long periods of time and have been central in many major network breaches. APTs carefully cover their tracks by removing evidence from system log files, adding information to "white-lists" used by security software, and altering network configurations. This project aims to verify the ability of keyless integrity monitoring systems to detect APTs and attest to the ongoing integrity of a system.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @01:29AM (#403005)
    And for a moment there I'd thought that the heirs and assigns of the 19th century French mathematician Évariste Galois were awarded a contract.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @01:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @01:40AM (#403009)

    I figured Galois was another electric vehicle company.