MIT Researchers Developing Borg-like Computer Defenses
By Daniel Miessler on March 19th, 2010: Tagged as Information Security
The idea is that you’ve got hundreds of machines out there,” Rinard says. “We’re saying, ‘Okay, fine, you can take out six or 10 of my 200 machines.’” But, he adds, “by observing what happens with the executions of those six or 10 machines, we’ll be able to deploy patches out to protect the rest of the machines.” The entire process of recognizing an attack, testing a number of countermeasures and deploying the most effective ones can take a matter of seconds.
via physorg.com
Very interesting research. I’m curious as to how it’d work with only one or a handful of computers, though. There you wouldn’t get the benefit of being able to learn from a few systems falling.
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