Pentagon seeks help on denial of service attacks
Source: Computer User
The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking information from technology vendors on how to defend against distributed denial of service attacks, according to a special notice published last week. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations (JTF-CNO) have invited vendors to submit an application to present "technologies or techniques that defend against increasingly prevalent Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks" according to the announcement at the Federal Business Opportunities site.
An unspecified number of applicants will be invited to demonstrate their solutions to an audience of government and military personnel at the Denial of Service Defenses Technology Conference, to be held Dec. 18 and 19 in Arlington, Va., the notice stated.
