The cyber attack alert system "DAEDALUS (Daedalus)" starts external deployment

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) began external deployment of cyber attack alert system "DAEDALUS (Direct Alert Environment for Darknet And Livenet Unified Security, Daedalus)". At NICTA system that publishes observation information of dark net (unused IP on the Internet) on the net "nicter"In April, DAEDALUS made use of this.

Press Release | Begin external deployment of cyber attack alert system "DAEDALUS" (Daedalus)! | NICT - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology


Information security technology is mainly boundary defense that detects and protects attacks at the boundary where the Internet and the organization's network are connected but malware infection via attachments of USB memory and e-mail, OS and software vulnerability There are many cases where the boundary defense is overcome by zero day attack that struck. For this reason, NICT aimed at further improving security measures, this is a cyber attack alert system "DAEDALUS".

When DAEDALUS observes malware infection activity within the organization, infection activity from within the organization out of the organization, the occurrence of Dos attack on the dark net, it immediately sends an alert to that organization. Alerts are sent to the registered e-mail address in XML format and can be confirmed and retrieved from the Web.

This is a visualization of DAEDALUS. The central spherical part is the Internet, the surrounding ring-shaped one represents the observation target organization, and packets come and go between the net and the organization.


Observation target organization No. 01. The ring part shows IP address block, of which the light blue color is the IP address in use (live net), the navy blue color is the unused IP address (dark net). An alert with a "warning" is displayed in the part where the abnormality was detected.


When a new anomaly is detected, the alert icon is displayed largely across the screen.


This DAEDALUS will be provided free of charge to educational institutions such as universities where nicter's sensors can be installed. In addition, as a commercial alert service by transferring technology "SiteVisorIt will start. "It will be held at Makuhari Messe from 13th to 15th June"Interop Tokyo 2012It is also introduced in the network of real time demo is to be seen.