DARPA Announces Cyber Grand Challenge
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/10/22.aspx
Great! Lets have a contest to see who can build Skynet faster!
Disclosure: I just started a new job where I am working to help build Skynet:
http://www.hexiscyber.com/content/hawkeye-g-active-defense-grid
So far as I know (it is a nice change to be working on a job that allows me to talk about it!) no one has actually put the system in charge of their network yet, but this is the only viable path forward, so at some point a system exactly like this one is going to have to be put in control. That this has been true for at least 25 years (actually, almost exactly 25 years) is irrelevant to most people, but sooner or later (I suspect later, but Hexis is well funded by people that think it will be sooner, I hope they are right) automation is the way we are going to have to go. Attack has been automated for decades, it is time for defense to catch up!
