NAI Wins Two Awards To Develop Next Generation Net Security Technology.

NAI Labs, the research arm of security and antivirus software maker Network Associates Inc., has landed two new federal government contracts to develop next generation intrusion detection technology that will monitor and protect against both physical intrusions as well as computer network intrusions.

Under the two awards funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NAI Labs will develop a new security architecture for sensor network protection as well as develop and enhance intrusion detection technology within DARPA's "Active Networks" initiative. Under the first contract, NAI will design a comprehensive communications security architecture to protect the network of physical sensor devices (acoustic, seismic, infrared, visible light, motion, humidity, temperature, etc.) that is a part of DARPA's Sensor Information Technology (SensIT) program. The second contract is a part of DARPA's "Active Networks" initiative which integrates network applications, allowing them to actively communicate with each other in real time.