DARPA Initiative: Cutting Attack Dwell Time Down to Just 24 Hours

One of the major issues in IT security is not that attacks and exploits are successful. It's that they're successful and then go unnoticed for so long. A new DARPA-funded research project at Georgia Tech is applying a variety of techniques to dramatically reduce the "dwell time" of an attack from the current average of more than 6 months to as little as 24 hours.