DARPA developing resiliency in the military cloud

Grazed from DefenseSystems. Author: John Edwards.

As DOD begins sending its most sensitive information into the cloud, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a new generation of resilient cloud services that are designed to maintain and support military objectives during a cyber attack.

According to DARPA, a traditional perimeter defense focus can’t sufficiently secure existing network enclaves. The approach is even less likely to provide reliable security in cloud environments, where a massive concentration of homogeneous hosts on high-speed networks lack internal checks and rely on implicit trust among hosts within limited perimeter defenses…

DARPA’s Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds (MRC) program aims to bolster cloud security by developing technologies that would detect, diagnose and respond to attacks on cloud services and infrastructures, effectively building a "community health system." DARPA researchers are also working on technologies that would enable cloud applications and infrastructures to continue functioning while under attack. In effect, the idea is to enable a cloud-based architecture that provides fault tolerance and mission assurance for widely distributed multi-host systems similar to business-critical online transaction processing systems that tie together a fabric of varied network nodes into a host architecture that can survive any individual component failure or predicted class of attack…

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