[Fed-Talk] 21 years ago today
[Fed-Talk] 21 years ago today
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] 21 years ago today
- From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:19:46 -0700
Yesterday I was going through some old material and ran across some screenshots of a demo we gave 21 years ago. Back then "screenshot" meant taking a picture of the screen with a 35mm camera (my trusty Pentax K-1000). I was too young back then to really appreciate what we were doing.
This was funded by the USAF, and they were originally going to roll it out globally across the Air Force. In the end they took the network monitoring portion and did just that under the name ASIM.
Here is a little bit of computer security archeology / ancient history:
DIDS: Integrated host and network monitoring, live taps, lateral tracking, oh... and all in 1991
From 1990 to 1992 UC Davis, Haystack Labs, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) worked on the Distributed Intrusion Detection System (DIDS). We handed it off to the United States Air Force (USAF), which funded the work. The USAF planned to roll it out across the entire Air Force network. They hired Trident Data Systems (TDS) to "productize" our prototype and support the roll out. Eventually the network monitoring portion (my NSM) and a centralized Director was rebranded ASIM and rolled out Air Force wide. As far as I know, the ASIM sensor grid was the first global-scale intrusion detection system. This document shows some screenshots of DIDS at about the midpoint of its development.
Todd
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