DHS licenses malware forensics
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The detection tech is the second to emerge from Science and Technology Directorate's Transition to Practice program.
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The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has licensed a malware forensics detection and software assurance package, the second technology to emerge from the Cyber Security Division Transition to Practice program.
R&K Cyber Solutions LLC, a Manassas, Va.-based application development and cyber solution company licensed Hyperion, which was originally developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Transition to Practice program identified Hyperion in 2012 as a promising candidate for further development and private-sector use. Hyperion calculates software behavior and can sniff out malware that behaves badly, according to S&T.
The three-year-old TTP program supports DHS's mission of improving cybersecurity capabilities by transitioning federally funded technologies from federal laboratories to consumers.
S&T announced its first commercialization in 2014 when Quantum Secured Communication technology, which protects cyber infrastructure, transitioned to the commercial market through the TTP program.
S&T said the program has 24 technologies -- eight from fiscal year 2013, nine from 2014 and seven from 2015 -- that are ready for transition to the private sector.