Information Assurance

13.7. Thoughts on Evolution of IRS Technology

We anticipate that for IRSs to be widely deployed, they will have to evolve in several directions over the coming years, including:

• Ability to withstand unpredictable attack scenarios. It is inconceivable that all attack scenarios would be “programmed” in the IRS. The IRS should, therefore, be able to extrapolate strategies available in its knowledge base and take responses to hitherto unseen attacks. This will be an important requirement since polymorphic worms, viruses, and other forms of attacks are rampant in today’s security landscape. In this matter, there is a delicate balancing game between learning from the past and being agile to respond to future attacks. It is possible to build up large ...