HUNTSVILLE – The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $99,889 contract to Sentar Inc., Huntsville, for Information Assurance Run-time Auditing (IARA). The contract was awarded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Sentar, teamed with Dr. Rose Gamble at the University of Tulsa, developed this concept as a framework to promote the specification of software system monitoring, audit, analysis and threat mitigation capabilities in large scale software intensive systems. This effort will provide the OSD with an innovative platform to enable the rapid development of capabilities to monitor untrusted, executing software components within a trusted system and capabilities to capture and analyze monitored behaviors. Though such practices are gaining momentum at a host level, approaches that can scale to enterprise and system of systems are currently unaddressed. Thus, the IARA effort proposes to fill this gap by proving the efficacy of scaling run-time monitoring and analysis technologies as well as providing a foundation to design, configure, and deploy those capabilities. IARA will be particularly beneficial for dynamic and evolving infrastructures such as Future Combat Systems, FORCEnet, Joint Battlespace Infosphere, or the burgeoning Global Information Grid. Broad based benefits of the proposed capability transcend government needs, supplying commercial organizations a solution and tools who seek to verify the operations of untrusted components to be incorporated or updated in their enterprise systems. This protection is applicable to a number of large, international corporations that depend on access to a growing number of networked systems and data stores in order to remain competitive. IARA provides protection of critical enterprise corporate assets at all levels of the corporation at all sites worldwide.
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