by Thomas A. Visel

We are some months into a partnership with XIT Networks dealing with the matter of Cyber Security.  We are using Neuric’s Brain as a backend process to do sense-making of Internet recon and attack events.  XIT equipment discovers network events, forwarding them to the brain, quite like external sensory neurons.  The brain does sense making from the detail, alerting the operator to the big-picture situation and recommending the remediation or interdiction.  Each brain is estimated to have the capability to replace 20-30 operators who are otherwise occupied with menu drill-down point-and-click operations to perform manual sense-making.

Ever try to read someone’s mind?  Unless they tell you what they are thinking, you will never know.  You can conjecture what they are thinking with varying degrees of certainty, but it’s still conjecture.  That is inference, and that is what the Neuric’s brain does.  It takes known facts and back-stories and conjectures intention.

This is an exciting outlet as a first major application of the Neuric Brain.  We have our plate full but most of the science is behind us.  You can schedule engineering, but not science!

As an aside, it is amazing to watch some of the military services and certain commercial chase their tails with frenzy over Cyber Security, spending my tax dollars in the process.  “Plans” seem based on urgency much more than understanding.  The scary thing is to see expenditures proposed and laid out without consistent a plan, similar perhaps to the $900B “bailout” that Congress scared itself into creating last Fall.  That was even before Obama recovered the football and now attempts to pump cash like raindrops in the jungle.  Will the risky venture succeed as they guess it will?  The risk is borne by your children and mine!