DARPA Soliciting Bids On Insider Threat Prevention

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new program aimed at quickly finding and stopping insiders from trying to steal information from Department of Defense (DoD) computer networks for use against the federal government.

To develop its Cyber Insider Threat program, or CINDER, DARPA is "soliciting novel approaches to insider threat detection that greatly increase the accuracy, rate, and speed of detection and that impede the ability of adversaries to operate within government and military interest networks," according to a presolicitation notice posted on FedBizOpps.gov.

In the notice, DARPA describes an insider threat as any within the DoD's communications or computer-network environment being performed "in support of an adversary mission or goal."

For CINDER, DARPA is taking an approach that already assumes systems and networks have been compromised. Starting from there, the agency will take a three-phased approach, it said.

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