BAE Systems will develop cyber-hunting tools for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a deal announced on 7 August.
The work will be conducted as part of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the Cyber-Hunting at Scale (CHASE) project, and is valued at $5.2 million. The company will develop, demonstrate and evaluate new, automated cyber-defence tools for use within large networks, including those used by militaries, BAE Systems stated.
Enterprise-sized networks present a number of unique challenges for defenders, according to Sam Hamilton, chief scientist in BAE Systems’ Cyber Technology group. They tend to be very large and