IARPA to announce data protection project

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is planning to announce a project to increase data protection in the intelligence community’s private cloud in September.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is planning to announce a project to increase data protection in the intelligence community’s private cloud in September, according to FCW.

The Virtuous User Environment will ideally run on a cloud and gather log data on users in response to suspicious activity instead of collecting data on every event.

IARPA officials plan on having three phases of the program and will announce the first phase next month, FCW said.