Proactive Determination of Networked Node Vulnerability

Building on the success of our Phase I effort, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) proposes to enhance our proactive capability to scan network nodes for security vulnerabilities.  This Phase II proposal will incorporate recent developments in Active and Passive network traffic sniffing, node management, Complex Event Processing (CEP), high-performance network data distribution, and data persistence.  The proposed effort will focus on the integration of best-of-class real-time middleware technologies by RTI and its partners. We anticipate that the research results produced by this effort will have clear commercial applicability and directly benefit all of our customers.  This Phase II effort will culminate in a demonstration of the work performed along with quantifiable performance test results.  This proposal describes the continued development work will have to be done to optimize, document, and fully test our solution during Phase II. BENEFIT: Military application: Determining vulnerabilities and risk prior to exploitation by an opponent to enhance network security. Improving detected vulnerabilities helps reduce system administration workloads Commercial application: Any networks processing non-public data (medical records, financial information, commercial R&D) would find such capabilities useful.