Recent preliminary research results have shown, (a) that misconfiguration bugs are an important source of vulnerability in enterprise network and software installations, and (b) how it may be possible to construct practical and useful tools that cyber security managers can use to analyze the security of their enterprise network and software configurations. This rsearch prototype analyzes the current state of defenses of a network. In this Phase I SBIR research project, we plan to incorporate dynamic information like current background scans and attacks into the framework to analyze current threat profile system. With the increasing sophistication of attackers, the problem of managing the security of a large network demands immediate focus to keep the wheels of our economic activity moving.
Keywords: Computer Security, Networks, Management, Malicious, Intrusion, Information Security, Situational Awareness
