HUNTSVILLE -Sentar’s SCAND has been awarded a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) SBIR Phase II transition contract to develop technologies for detecting malicious programming in software code.
The problem being addressed is the inability to quickly assess new and existing software binary and source code for the existence of malicious code segments. Reuse and integration of software components has become routine, promoting rapid deployment and cost-effectiveness in Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) software development. The “scand” MDA SBIR Phase II Transition project will be developing a distributed software framework for selecting, executing, and managing analysis tools.
Collections of software malcode analysis tools will be directed from a central workstation and report their results back. Suspicious and malicious code segments will be identified for mitigation.
The new software framework is based on prior MDA SBIR projects and is related to the Sentar accrediScan(TM) technology. These tools manage the automated scanning of systems for security configurations settings and Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Information Technology Guideline (STIG) compliance, respectively. The scand Transition project began in mid-January and concludes within one year.