{"id":72224,"date":"2017-08-28T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/darpa-wants-bots-to-protect-us-from-cyber-adversaries"},"modified":"2017-08-28T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:22:29","slug":"darpa-wants-bots-to-protect-us-from-cyber-adversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/darpa-wants-bots-to-protect-us-from-cyber-adversaries","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Wants Bots To Protect Us From Cyber Adversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-wants-bots-to-protect-us-from-cyber-adversaries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The military research unit is looking for technology and software that can identify networks that have been infiltrated\u2014and neutralize them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The military\u2019s research unit is looking for <\/strong>ways to automate protection against cyber adversaries, preventing incidents like the WannaCry ransomware attack that took down parts of the United Kingdom\u2019s National Health Service networks.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is gathering proposals for software that can automatically neutralize botnets, armies of compromised devices that can be used to carry out attacks, according to a new broad agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=0265d82ec4f9aa0bc0534a9d01f0a867&tab=core&_cview=1\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/08\/darpa-wants-bots-protect-us-cyber-adversaries\/140565\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer2cec8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/08\/darpa-wants-bot...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military research unit is looking for technology and software that can identify networks that have been infiltrated\u2014and neutralize them. The military\u2019s research unit is looking for ways to automate protection against cyber adversaries, preventing incidents like the WannaCry ransomware attack that took down parts of the United Kingdom\u2019s National Health Service networks. The Defense [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72224","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}