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Military Spends $4.4M To Supersize Net Monitoring

coondoggie writes "Bigger, better, faster, more are the driving themes behind the advanced network monitoring technology BBN Technologies is building for the military. The high-tech firm got a $4.4 million contract today from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel, scalable attack detection algorithms; a flexible and expandable architecture for implementing and deploying the algorithms; and an execution environment for traffic inspection and algorithm execution. The network monitoring system is being developed under DARPA's Scalable Network Monitoring program which seeks to bolt down network security in the face of cyber attacks that have grown more subtle and sophisticated."

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  1. Military Spends $4.4M To Supersize Net Monitoring by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sounds like a lot, but it did come with fries.

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  2. $4.4 million is almost enough ... by cohomology · · Score: 2, Funny

    to cater the meetings to discuss the project.

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  3. Re:Interesting by RandoX · · Score: 3, Funny

    All that money, down the tubes.

  4. Re:Encryption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh yeah, because slashdot definitely requires the best encryption available today, as we share very precious information like funny comments.