DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge

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DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge: Security Gurus Team To Beat Viruses for Good

The culmination of the world’s first tournament of automated computer security systems is set to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 4. The Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) will be hosted by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the Paris Hotel, where seven security teams will put their automated systems to the test for a chance to win almost $4 million in prizes.

“Today's approach to cybersecurity depends on computer security experts: experts identify new flaws and threats and remediate them by hand. This process can take over a year from first detection to the deployment of a solution, by which time critical systems may have already been breached,” according to information on the event Web site.

The goal of the CGC is to promote the automation of cyber defense. The event will field the first generation of machines that can discover, prove and fix software flaws in real-time, without any assistance. If successful, the speed of autonomy could someday blunt the structural advantages of cyber offense, according to the CGC.

 

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"Smart Machines" Compete in DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Today


Seven teams, each running a high-performance computer and autonomous systems, are going head-to-head to see which one can best detect, evaluate and patch software vulnerabilities before adversaries have a chance to exploit them.

It’s the first event where machines – with no human involvement – are competing in a round of "capture the flag, according to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is sponsoring and running the event. DARPA is the research arm of the U.S. Defense Department.

The teams are vying for a prize pool of $3.75 million, with the winning team receiving $2 million, the runner-up getting $1 million and the third-place team taking home $750,000. The winner will be announced Friday morning.

DefCon Capture the Flag competition set for Friday.

“Capture the flag is a speed-driven, bug-hunting contest on binary code,” said Mike Walker, DARPA program manager for the event known as the Cyber Grand Challenge. “People who can succeed at the top level of capture the flag are the world’s great bug hunters. And they can use that skill to hunt for bugs in the code that runs our civilization.”

The competition was first announced in October 2013 when DARPA first put out a call for competitors. More than 100 teams from around the world took up the challenge.

After three qualifying events over the last several years, seven finalists were announced.

The teams competing today are: Code Jitsu from Berkeley, Calif.; CSDS, the University of Idaho; Deep Red, Arlington, Va.; Disekt, Athens, Ga.; For All Secure, Pittsburgh; ShellFish, University of California, Santa Barbara; and TechX from Ithaca, N.Y. and the University of Virginia.

With the competition, DARPA wants to encourage research into autonomous systems that can be used in cybersecurity. With the growing Internet of Things, more devices are being connected to each other without human involvement.

Devices with IoT technology, such as a coffee maker, a car or a personal-assistant robot could be hacked, leaving users open to a security threat.

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