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NEUTRON: Network Enforcement Using TRansctiONs
Award last edited on: 8/9/2019

Sponsored Program
STTR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$896,239
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF17B-T004
Principal Investigator
Dan Thomsen

Company Information

Smart Information Flow Technologies (AKA: SIFT LLC~SMART Information Flow Tech)

319 North 1st Avenue Suite 400
Minneapolis, MN 55401
   (612) 339-7438
   contact@sift.net
   www.sift.net

Research Institution

Purdue University

Phase I

Contract Number: FA8750-18-C-0052
Start Date: 12/19/2017    Completed: 10/19/2018
Phase I year
2018
Phase I Amount
$149,946
SIFT proposes Network Enforcement Using TRansactONs (NEUTRON) a dynamic fine-grained network enforcement policy design that captures network dependencies. NEUTRON closes the knowledge gap between mission needs and observed network traffic to increase mission network awareness. Then using that knowledge develops a revolutionary security enforcement policy based on network transactions. It reduces the attack surface of the network, by enforcing a least privilege policy in time. Only when a mission transaction requires network permissions are the network permissions active. NEUTRON also supports user-driven security policies to allow users to respond to unique tactical situations by temporarily changing the policy on their own authority. User-driven policies ensure that the added security NEUTRON provides does not come at the cost of reducing the tactical flexibility of network to the warfighter. NEUTRON includes novel research into a new kind of network enforcement policy and practical approaches to make the new technology easy to adopt by legacy enclaves.

Phase II

Contract Number: FA8750-19-C-0082
Start Date: 5/15/2019    Completed: 5/15/2021
Phase II year
2019
Phase II Amount
$746,293
SIFT proposes Network Enforcement Using TRansactONs (NEUTRON) a dynamic fine-grained network enforcement policy design that captures network dependencies.NEUTRON closes the knowledge gap between mission needs and observed network traffic to increase mission network awareness. Then using that knowledge develops a revolutionary security enforcement policy based on network transactions.It reduces the attack surface of the network, by enforcing a least privilege policy in time.Only when a mission transaction requires network permissions are the network permissions active.NEUTRON also supports user-driven security policies to allow users to respond to unique tactical situations by temporarily changing the policy on their own authority. User-driven policies ensure that the added security NEUTRON provides does not come at the cost of reducing the tactical flexibility of network to the warfighter.NEUTRON includes novel research into a new kind of network enforcement policy and practical approaches to make the new technology easy to adopt by legacy enclaves.