While many agencies are still licking their wounds from once again failing their annual information security test, the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency on Thursday will announce a new partnership that could go a long way toward shoring . . .
While many agencies are still licking their wounds from once again failing their annual information security test, the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency on Thursday will announce a new partnership that could go a long way toward shoring up the security of the government's networks.

The new agreement is a joint research and development initiative with Lancope Inc., to build an advanced intrusion-detection appliance for use both inside the government and in the private sector. Code-named the Therminator, the appliance will incorporate Lancope's StealthWatch, behavior-based IDS system with a new data-reduction and visualization technology developed by the government.

Perhaps indicating the government's current emphasis on information security, the organizations have set forth an aggressive development schedule and are hoping to deploy a prototype appliance within six months.

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