Einstein 1 wasn’t smart enough, so the government built a sequel

Opinion
Feb 12, 20101 min

The Department of Homeland Security has created a special intrusion-detection system and will deploy it widely this year.

Carolyn Duffy Marsan reports that the Department of Homeland Security has created a special intrusion-detection system and will deploy it widely this year. The IDSs are called Einstein 2. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is monitoring them, along with the Einstein 1 appliances. They’re finding out just how federal government networks are being attacked. That deployment is part of a larger shift in security strategy, which Marsan goes into detail on here.