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DHS cyber incubator graduates malware ‘playback’ tech

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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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Malware sniffer is latest cyber technology to get DHS push toward marketplace

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A new form of malware detection software that analyzes computer code to predict malicious behavior — but without actually running it — has been exclusively licensed to a Virginia startup from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory under a Department of Homeland Security program that helps get federally developed technology to the marketplace. Hyperion, as the software is called, was one of the first technologies selected for DHS’s Transition to Practice, or TTP, program — back in 2012 when it was launched. It was licensed to Manassas, Virginia-based Lenvio this month after the company was spun off from R&K Cyber last year. Hyperion had previously been non-exclusively licensed to R&K. “Obtaining an exclusive technology license … helps us secure a more competitive position to commercialize Hyperion as we grow our company,” said B.K. Gogia, Lenvio’s chief executive officer, in a statement. Conventional malware consists of a file that a user is tricked into downloading and running on their […]

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