"New Cyber Protection Technology Moves from the Lab to the Marketplace"
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed technology aimed at providing protection for commodity software applications such as browsers, business tools, and document readers, from cyberattacks. The technology, called Timely Randomization Applied to Commodity Executables at Runtime (TRACER), protects such applications from sophisticated cyberattacks by re-randomizing the applications' sensitive internal data and layout each time an output is generated. The transition of TRACER to a commercially available product is supported by the Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) Transition to Practice (TTP) program, which identifies promising federally developed cybersecurity technologies that could be accelerated into the marketplace and facilitates transition. This article continues to discuss TRACER and its move to the marketplace.