A contract modification will enable Perspecta Labs to continue working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop cyber defenses against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The new contract agreement is worth up to $2.7 million and is dependent on the successful completion of milestones. It represents on-contract growth as part of DARPA’s Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) program.
“DDoS attacks are among the most malicious cyber assaults made against military, enterprise and public network infrastructure,” Petros Mouchtaris, president of Perspecta Labs, said. “Standing up against some of the most sophisticated adversaries requires advanced and innovative solutions. We are excited to integrate our cutting-edge DDoS techniques to deliver a comprehensive network defense solution to the DoD and other customers.”
Perspecta Labs officials said the work targets the obscuring of high-value cyber assets, detecting stealthy, low-volume intrusions, performing defensive maneuvers to mislead and confuse adversaries and launching mitigation steps to repel both widespread and targeted attacks.
Solutions for DDoS defense, according to Perspecta Labs, combine methods to reduce the attack surface, identify hard-to-detect attacks, improve resilience and proactively defend the network.
Integrating the capabilities into one end-to-end solution would aid the process of safeguarding critical network assets and deliver reliable service through improved network and application awareness, effective attack isolation and proactive defensive maneuvers.