{"id":31005,"date":"2016-10-13T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/darpa-investigating-blockchain-for-nuclear-weapons-satellite-security"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:38","slug":"darpa-investigating-blockchain-for-nuclear-weapons-satellite-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/darpa-investigating-blockchain-for-nuclear-weapons-satellite-security","title":{"rendered":"DARPA investigating blockchain for nuclear weapons, satellite security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-investigating-blockchain-for-nuclear-weapons-satellite-security.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Defense Department is looking to implement blockchain, other organizations may quickly follow suit. Blockchain technology helps guarantee that information has a timestamp and recorded whenever any change happens, ensuring data can be trusted in real time. In DARPA\u2019s case, blockchain technology could help track attempted data breaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever weapons are employed \u2026 it tends to be a place where data integrity in general is incredibly important,\u201d Booher said. \u201cSo nuclear command and control, satellite command and control, command and control in general, [information integrity] is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September, DARPA awarded a $1.8 million contract to computer security firm Galois, asking it to verify a specific type of blockchain technology from a company called Guardtime. If the verification goes well, the military could become one of a growing number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/banks-financial-markets-quickly-bringing-on-blockchain\/427242\/\" target=\"_blank\">industries<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/how-ericsson-is-using-blockchain\/428092\/\" target=\"_blank\">institutions using blockchain<\/a> to help ensure the security of their operations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/darpa-investigating-blockchain-for-nuclear-weapons-satellite-security\/428188\/\">http:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/darpa-investigating-blockchain-f...ty\/428188\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Defense Department is looking to implement blockchain, other organizations may quickly follow suit. Blockchain technology helps guarantee that information has a timestamp and recorded whenever any change happens, ensuring data can be trusted in real time. In DARPA\u2019s case, blockchain technology could help track attempted data breaches. \u201cWhenever weapons are employed \u2026 it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66014,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions\/66014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}