SAN FRANCISCO — Leaders of various federal research agencies and departments outlined a vision Tuesday for the future of critical infrastructure security, emphasizing the promise of combining formal software development methods with large language models (LLMs). Acting DARPA Director Rob McHenry told an audience at the RSAC 2025 Conference that such a combination could “virtually…
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Cyber Command touts AI-driven gains in cybersecurity, network monitoring
A top Cyber Command official said the agency has been able to use generative AI tools to dramatically cut down the time spent analyzing network traffic for malicious activity. Executive Director Morgan Adamski said Wednesday that as Cybercom has worked to build AI capabilities across different missions, the agency is already seeing a return on…
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DARPA wants to create ‘self-healing’ firmware that can respond and recover from cyberattacks
Imagine, for a moment, that your network is hit with ransomware. One of your employees clicked on a malicious link and now your network is compromised, data is encrypted and most of the organization’s systems are locked or offline. Then imagine if instead of assembling an incident response team, notifying the board and contacting law…
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Closing software-understanding gap is critical to national security, CISA says
With Chinese-sponsored hackers lingering in the IT systems of various U.S. critical infrastructure networks, potentially imminent threats to the country’s national security abound. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and federal partners hope to lessen that threat by closing a so-called “software understanding gap.” In a document released Thursday with the Defense Advanced Research Projects…