Daniel Genkin in DARPA Eyes Protections for Common but Critical Computing System

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for “revolutionary” ways to protect from hackers that workhorse of modern computing, the data bus, a standardized component that allows different pieces of IT equipment—including those in aircraft and weapons systems—to communicate.

The cable that lets your keyboard or mouse plug in to any computer on the planet is a data bus—the Universal Serial Bus, or USB...

“If I plug it in, it’s going to work. That’s great! But that also means that everything I plug in is going to work, including the bad stuff,” said Daniel Genkin, associate professor of cybersecurity and computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.