The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office has announced plans to award millions of dollars — $36 million for the first phase — for technology that could monitor devices in the Internet of Things (IoT).
The program titled – Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS) – intends to examine involuntary emissions from devices — electromagnetic, acoustic, thermal, as well as power fluctuations — to determine the software running on the device. Those indicators could also tell researchers which functions the device is executing or which part of its memory it’s accessing, an announcement said.
The LADS program seeks to enable a new protection paradigm that separates security monitoring functionality from the protected system, such that even a full compromise of the
latter cannot lead to compromise of the monitoring logic.
All proposals have to come in by November 10, 2015. To know more, click here.
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