DHS licenses malware forensics
The detection tech is the second to emerge from Science and Technology Directorate's Transition to Practice program.
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.