Advanced Reasoning Software

2015 Software/Services R&D 100 Award Winner

The amount of data streaming from cyber security appliances and logs is staggering. The number of raw data points is best measured in the millions of events per day, even for modestly sized institutions. Security analysts are trained to seek out and identify patterns that represent cyber threats hidden inside the massive data streams. Unfortunately, the velocity and volume of the streams are such that even large teams of analysts are typically forced into forensic mode, analyzing the data well after a compromise has occurred. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Champion Technology Co. Inc.’s CHAMPION (Columnar Hierarchical Auto-associative Memory Processing in Ontological Networks) advanced reasoning software system revolutionizes the detection of cyber threats. Behavior-based patterns are derived by combining subject matter expertise and knowledge of analysts with company-specific historical data, which allows security analysts to detect threats in near-real-time. Domain- and company-specific data programmed into the system for each specific user company makes the system domain agnostic.

Technology
Advanced reasoning software

Developers
Champion Technology Co. Inc.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Award Year

 

2015

Organization

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Dept. of Energy)

Champion Technology Co. Inc.

Developers

Rick Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Alex Gibson, Champion Technology Company Inc.

Frank Greitzer, PsyberAnalytix LLC

Shawn Hampton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Principal Investigator)

Ryan Hohimer, Champion Technology Company Inc. (Principal Investigator)

Peter Neorr, Champion Technology Company Inc.

Patrick Paulson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Katya Pomiak, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory