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Article: Can IT defenses work like the body's? The model IT system of the future will learn independently and react autonomously--like the human immune system.(information technology )
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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As information technology (IT) systems increase in scale and complexity, they become more difficult to secure. We can see this in the growing number of successful attacks. If networks are to be made more secure, the IT community must move away from traditional approaches to security, which are knowledge-intensive, requiring human expertise and control at every stage of the process.
What is the alternative? We need fully automated systems that can learn independently and react rapidly and autonomously to deal with attacks. The problem is that these are much harder to design and build. But a model for this approach already exists: the biological immune system. This ...