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Autonomous vulnerability scanning and patching of binaries
In November 2014, Team DESCARTES led by Newton Lee and sponsored by the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS) was among one of the 104 teams registered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first-ever Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). Only 28 teams, including Team DESCARTES, made it through two DARPA-sponsored dry runs and into the CGC Qualifying Event in June 2015. We proposed a system—Distributed Expert Systems for Cyber Analysis, Reasoning, Testing, Evaluation, and Security (DESCARTES)—that would be a fully autonomous cyber defense system that is capable of autonomous analysis, autonomous patching, autonomous vulnerability scanning, autonomous service resiliency, and autonomous network defense.