http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/02/spy-research-agency-building-psychic-machines-predict-hacks/105882/
By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
February 23, 2015
Imagine if IBM's Watson -- the "Jeopardy!" champion supercomputer -- could
answer not only trivia questions and forecast the weather, but also
predict data breaches days before they occur.
That is the ambitious, long-term goal of a contest being held by the U.S.
intelligence community.
Academics and industry scientists are teaming up to build software that
can analyze publicly available data and a specific organization's network
activity to find patterns suggesting the likelihood of an imminent hack.
The dream of the future: A White House supercomputer spitting out
forecasts on the probability that, say, China will try to intercept
situation room video that day, or that Russia will eavesdrop on Secretary
of State John Kerry's phone conversations with German Chancellor Angela
Merkel.
IBM has even expressed interest in the "Cyber-attack Automated
Unconventional Sensor Environment," or CAUSE, project. Big Blue officials
presented a basic approach at a Jan. 21 proposers' day.
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