Vern Paxson Receives NSF Grant to Improve Bro Intrusion Detection

^{October 1, 2003}
Vern Paxson of ICIR received a grant from NSF for "Viable Network Defense for Scientific Research Institutions." This project tackles the problem of how to defend a site from Internet attacks when the site requires broad, open access to the Internet to perform its mission. The research will be done using the Bro intrusion detection system at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. The goal is to enhance Bro's capabilities and applicability to operational use, to foster a Bro user community that will facilitate the use of Bro at research institutions, and to develop new network-based intrusion detection algorithms.