Galois to help Navy with cyber weaknesses

Galois has been awarded a $2.7 million Navy cybersecurity contract.

Under the Office of Naval Research deal, Galois will focus on software "brittleness," or the difficulty that older software has in responding to new threats — except that Galois will exploit brittleness as a defensive technique.

"Galois aims to harden control systems by using binary rewriting to add brittleness to legacy binaries," a company news release said.

"Many traditional cyber defenses strive to keep systems running when cyber attacks are detected," said Galois researcher Tristan Ravitch. "Our approach aims to improve overall system resilience by triggering built-in system recovery methods as quickly as possible.  This allows the system to seamlessly restart in a known-good state while denying the attacker access to a running system."

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