DHS cyber incubator graduates malware ‘playback’ tech
A software package that records and “replays” the operation of malware is the latest technology to graduate from a Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity incubator. The technology, REnigma, allows network defenders to quickly see exactly how an attack unfolded and work out how best to recover, DHS official Nadia Carlsten told CyberScoop. “It’s all about getting the analysts the facts as fast as possible — and as accurately as possible,” she said. The software was developed at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and will be licensed to Deterministic Security LLC — a startup founded by the two scientists who wrote it. The Oregon-based company becomes the 15th successful graduate from the DHS Transition To Practice (TTP) incubator, said Carlsten, the program’s manager. “The developers wanted to take their technology into the marketplace themselves,” she said. Run in the Cyber Security Division of DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate, TTP selects candidate technologies from federal laboratories […]
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