General Electric Company’s technological development division GE Research recently unveiled it’s developing a cybersecurity tool to examine and subsequently improve critical military and industrial systems’ cyber stature and defenses for a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency project.
The Verification Evidence and Resilient Design in Anticipation of Cybersecurity Threats—or VERDICT—tool aims to work across a range of computer systems, such as those for smart devices, ships, aircraft, power plants and wind farms. The goal is to provide the systems with comprehensive assessments of cyber threats, recommend how to address vulnerabilities uncovered, and predict the potential of forthcoming attacks.
“We hope the VERDICT tool is a tool that any systems engineer, with or without deep cybersecurity expertise, can pick up and use,” Michael Durling, Kit Siu and Abha Moitra, members of GE Research’s project team, recently told Nextgov via email. “The best case scenario is if we can decrease the time and effort it takes for product security experts to do their job, allowing them to analyze and assess the safety and security of a system with accurate and repeatable results, and have the artifacts that come out of our tool be part of an assurance package used for certification.”
The project is being run through DARPA’s Cyber Assured Systems Engineering, or CASE program, which addresses cybersecurity from a systems engineering perspective. The GE Research team wants to develop a tool to help systems engineers evaluate cyber resiliency—the ability to withstand attacks—like they would safety or performance features.
They started the project in 2018, but the officials noted that some of the concepts involved are extensions fr ..
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