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ABSTRACT
There is a general understanding in both the commercial and defense sectors that a dynamic defense is needed to deal with the current threats to our national cyber infrastructure. Attacks can come in too many forms and from too many sources to deal with them using traditional mechanisms. Even with humans in the loop, the attackers can generate new forms of attack much faster than any reasonable collection of humans can defend against.
We will describe an approach to dynamic defense that has three significant properties.
- It is based on ViaSat's high-assurance architecture,
permitting true (hardware-enforced) trusted processing.
- It can operate in a fully distributed manner without depending
on any form of hierarchical real-time control.
- It can provide a defense at the same scale as the attack in
terms of both numbers and distributions of nodes.
BIOGRAPHY
Steven R. Hart is Chief Technical Officer and a co-founder of ViaSat Inc. As CTO he provides technical direction for product concept development, business development, customer relations, and bid and proposal activities. He has authored numerous technical papers in satellite networking and computer and communications security, and holds patents for inventions in these areas.
Mr. Hart has over 20 years of experience in design, development, and engineering management for digital communications and networking equipment. Prior to joining ViaSat, Mr. Hart was a staff engineer and manager at M/A-COM Linkabit from 1982 to 1986.
As a founding leader of ViaSat, he has helped manage the company to rapid growth. The company's continuing superior performance has qualified it to be named to BusinessWeek's list of "100 Best Small Corporations," Business 2.0's list of "100 Fastest Growing Technology Companies," Red Herring magazine's "2005 Small Cap 100," the "200 Best Small Companies in America" list by Forbes, and the San Diego Business Journal's "Best Places to Work."
Mr. Hart was named the 2004 Outstanding Executive by the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering for his dedication to ensuring the highest quality in education for its students through close ties with San Diego's high tech industry.
About ViaSat (www.viasat.com):
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. The company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications, is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies and products to the U.S. government, and is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services. ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products, including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems. ViaSat is based in Carlsbad, CA, has major locations in Duluth, GA, and Germantown, MD (Comsat Laboratories division), and has additional field offices and service centers worldwide.
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