July 9, 2009 – ObjectSecurity completed a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) SBIR phase 1 project, “Proactive Determination of Networked Node Vulnerability,” in partnership with Real-Time Innovations (RTI). The project addresses the need to proactively identify network security weaknesses before and during intrusions, aligned with the DoD’s Global Information Grid (GIG) network goals. The project automates vulnerability scanning of network nodes and DDS-based applications, analyzes vulnerability impacts, and shares findings across network nodes for timely responses. RTI integrated ObjectSecurity’s OpenPMF 2.0 for its policy-driven incident monitoring for DDS. OpenPMF, previously used in a Navy project, provides application policy enforcement and enables automatic generation of detailed security rules for middleware platforms. OpenPMF extends network intrusion detection to the application layer, displaying incidents in its GUI and exporting alerts into the DDS shared space or to Promia Raven. This integrated approach merges network and application-level intrusion prevention, supporting agile, complex IT environments.