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Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy</p></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="news-date"> <time datetime="2023-03-23T12:00:00Z">March 23, 2023</time> </div> <div class="field-container"> <div class="section-topic"> <div class="topic-label"> Topic: </div> <ul> <li><a href="https://www-ornl-gov.translate.goog/science-area/national-security?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto">National Security</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container"> <div class="field-elements"> <div class="field-element"> <div class="text-paragraph paragraph paragraph--type--text-body paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="text-only-container"> <div class="field-wrapper text-left-indent"> <div class="field-container"> <div class="field-element"> <p>Access to artificial intelligence and machine learning is rapidly changing technology and product development, leading to more advanced, efficient and personalized applications by leveraging a massive amount of data.</p> <p>However, the same abilities also are in the hands of bad actors, who use AI to create malware that evades detection by the algorithms widely employed by network security tools. Government agencies, banking institutions, critical infrastructure, and the world’s largest companies and their most used products are increasingly under threat from malware that can evade anti-virus systems, hijack networks, halt operations and expose sensitive and personal information.</p> <p>A technology developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and used by the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, or NAVWAR, to test the capabilities of commercial security tools has been licensed to cybersecurity firm Penguin Mustache to create its <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://evasive.ai/">Evasive.ai platform</a>. The company was founded by the technology’s creator, former ORNL scientist <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://jaredthecoder.com/">Jared M. Smith</a><u>,</u> and his business partner, entrepreneur <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://www.brandonbruce.com/">Brandon Bruce</a>.</p> <p>“One of ORNL’s core missions is to advance the science behind national security,” said Susan Hubbard, ORNL’s deputy for science and technology. “This technology is the result of our deep AI expertise applied to a big challenge — protecting the nation’s cyber- and economic security.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-element"> <div class="image-paragraph paragraph paragraph--type--image paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="image-landscape"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container"> <div class="field-element"> <article aria-label="2023-p02848.jpg"> <div><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-03/2023-p02848.jpg?itok=wr98_I8F" width="1000" height="667" alt="Mike Paulus, director of technology transfer, speaks to attendees at an event celebrating the licensing of AMIGO to Penguin Mustache. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy"> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div><span class="image-caption"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container"> <div class="field-element"> Mike Paulus, ORNL director of technology transfer, speaks to attendees at an event celebrating the licensing of AMIGO to Penguin Mustache. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy </div> </div> </div></span> </div> <div class="image-description"> <p>Smith, who worked in ORNL’s Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division for six years, created the technology — the adversarial malware input generator, or AMIGO — at the request of the Department of Defense. AMIGO was created as the evaluation tool for a <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge%3Dartificial-intelligence-applications-to-autonomous-cybersecurity-challenge">challenge issued by NAVWAR</a> for AI applications that autonomously detect and quarantine cybersecurity threats. NAVWAR is an operations unit within the Navy that focuses on secure communications and networks.</p> <p>“ORNL’s Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division is a world leader in cybersecurity technology,” said Moe Khaleel, associate laboratory director for the lab’s National Security Sciences Directorate. “Moving AMIGO into the marketplace will help protect our nation’s critical infrastructure from attack.”</p> <p>“We put AMIGO to the test in a realistic environment. It’s been through the wringer and has been validated at a high technical readiness level,” Smith said. “The core technology is designed to build evasive malware, like a virus, that can bypass an existing detection technology.”</p> <p>Drawing on more than 35 million malware samples — some publicly available and others never before seen — AMIGO generates optimally evasive malware in tandem with the training information needed for a security system to detect it in the future.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-element"> <div class="image-paragraph paragraph paragraph--type--image paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="image-landscape"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container"> <div class="field-element"> <article aria-label="2023-p02857.jpg"> <div><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-03/2023-p02857.jpg?itok=iX8q_Ww3" width="1000" height="667" alt="The leadership and licensing team behind AMIGO. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy"> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div><span class="image-caption"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container"> <div class="field-element"> From left to right are Moe Khaleel, associate laboratory director for the National Security Sciences Directorate; Andreana Leskovjan, ORNL commercialization manager; Brandon Bruce and Jared Smith, co-founders of Penguin Mustache; Shaun Gleason, division director for cyber resilience and intelligence; Susan Hubbard, ORNL deputy for science and technology; Lucas Koch, co-inventor of AMIGO; Jeff Nichols, group leader for cybersecurity research; and Mike Paulus, ORNL director of technology transfer. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy </div> </div> </div></span> </div> <div class="image-description"> <p>Smith likens the process to vaccine development. “It’s as if we generated a million virus variants and a million vaccines to protect against them — we can collapse that into one vaccine and inoculate everyone. They’re protected against the threat, but also all the natural evolutions of the threat going forward.”</p> <p>Luke Koch, who in 2019 worked on the AMIGO development team through the DOE Office of Science’s SULI, or Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program, is now a doctoral student at the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, a collaboration between ORNL and the University of Tennessee, as well as a graduate research assistant in ORNL’s Cybersecurity Research Group. With Smith’s direction, Koch wrote the binary instrumentation code used in AMIGO.</p> <p>“Cybersecurity commercialization is important because our adversaries are always probing for weaknesses throughout the supply chain,” Koch said. “One single flaw is all it takes to invalidate a clever and expensive defense.”</p> <p>Amid a growing public understanding of the power of AI, the team is eager to see AMIGO integrated into Evasive.ai and implemented by national security agencies to protect government assets and infrastructure.</p> <p>“Bad actors are already using artificial intelligence to advance their attacks,” Bruce said. “As open AI tools improve, attempts to penetrate security systems will increase in volume and sophistication.”</p> <p>Additionally, long-term use of the Evasive.ai platform could inform a more complete understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to adversarial samples. This insight will make the next generation of machine learning defenses more robust.</p> <p>And what does any of this have to do with penguins? The company’s playful name is a riff on the problem of a small mutation enabling a virus to evade existing defenses — a penguin disguised with a mustache.</p> <p>ORNL commercialization manager Andreana Leskovjan negotiated the terms of the license. For more information about ORNL’s intellectual property in information technology and communications, <a href="mailto:partnerships@ornl.gov?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto">email ORNL Partnerships</a> or call 865-574-1051. 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