Los Alamos Targets Worm Cybersecurity with NARQ
John Monroe writes in FCW.com:
Los Alamos National Laboratory is entering the cybersecurity market through commercialization of a homegrown software called Network Automated Response and Quarantine (NARQ), which targets worms and other self-replicating intrusion threats.
Los Alamos developed NARQ after it failed to find a ready-made commercial product to help stymie the specific threat it faced from worms. Unlike viruses, worms don't directly infect programs and files. Instead they make copies of themselves and then propagate via the network to other machines, bringing the network down through denial of service.
NARQ detects such worms and then instantly quarantines all the affected machines and devices on the network at the port level.
posted by Fergie @ 11/16/2005 01:17:00 PM
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