Descriptive Analyses of Trusted Security Kernels and Autonomous Systems : Evolution of Security Approaches

Security countermeasures have been geared toward building fortified systems that focus on prevention and detection of attacks, and recovery from damage. However, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), given the increasing mobility of computing devices, security approaches must radically change to be effective. Some ways of working towards these ends are in creating systems that can reason and draw inferences and predictions about security vulnerabilities and threats. Among the most important advances are in systems that are adaptive and selfhealing deriving from human biology and sociology. Thus security systems are aiming at resilience and adaptation –this is called socio-biologically inspired security. We contrast two approaches: Trusted kernels and sociological agentic systems to help security managers weigh decisions to fit the best approach based on needs and systems architecture.