GrammaTech to advance adaptive computing technology for US ONR

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to GrammaTech, a software company specialising in software assurance tools and cyber-security solutions, to advance adaptive computing technology.

Under the contract, GrammaTech will enhance computer security, a critical issue to both national security and the private sector.

Breaches in security can cause by compromising the operation of critical infrastructure or resulting in the sensitive data loss.

By taking advantage of obscure combinations of software bugs or unexpected behaviours, new exploits are introduced every day to sidestep existing defences.

Currently, the company’s software security experts are working to diagnose and develop new counter-measures to each of these new threats through innovative efforts.

GrammaTech CEO Tim Teitelbaum said that the company is working on a new concept to develop system security that offers the computer itself with the tools to diagnose new attacks, reason about their impact on the system as well as and implement countermeasures automatically.

"We believe this so-called ‘autonomic computing’ approach offers the potential for complex computer systems to police themselves, by detecting intrusion, performing self-healing, and countering cyber threats directly," Teitelbaum added.