Eliminating Hacker Threats to Wireless Nets

Signal, Jun 2008

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Hacking into military wireless networks is a threat that worried planners for many years. A new research effort by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking to develop an "intrinsically secure" mobile military communications network designed to be resistant to cyberattacks.

DARPA's Intrinsically Assurable Mobile Ad hoc Network (IAMANET) program focuses on the security challenges faced by mobile ad hoc networks, which are susceptible to passive analysis and manipulation by adversaries. The agency selected BAE Systems (www.baesystems.com) to develop and test network protocols supporting the integrity, availability, reliability, confidentiality and safety of network communications and data. IAMANETs goal is to immunize networks against cyberattacks such as protocol exploits, denial of service, data exfiltration and the propagation of worms.

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