How IARPA invents its way to security

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How IARPA invents its way to security
March 26, 2019
https://gcn.com/articles/2019/03/26/iarpa-virtue-kerry-long.aspx

Rather than trying to improve the security "of the cloud," the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to use the cloud to increase security.

According to IARPA Program Manager Kerry Long, security problems like spear phishing are not the result of "stupid" users, but rather a function of the design of the interface they're required to work with. IARPA's plan "to invent its way out of the security problems," he said, resulted in the virtuous user environment, or Virtue.

By separating apps and functions into separate cloud containers, Virtue creates an environment based on user roles – email reader/respondent, web researcher, database contributor, for example. That means an attacker who gets into a user's email only sees email and can't connect to the computer's other applications.
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VirtUE code and documentation will be released as open source so researchers, industry and innovators can use it to build more secure cloud-based products and services.
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