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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A tool to improve the security of governmental computer networks
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:00
	Publish Date:		2016-07-20 19:00:00
	Description:		A tool to improve the computer network security of government agencies, along with state and local governments, has been developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Computer scientist Domingo Colon says their network mapping system, called NeMS, gives network managers a comprehensive view of their computer network environments. "So there are a lot of tools out there that provide different vantage points of network security, but what we needed was something a lot more specific that told us behaviorally what’s happening on our network, and also structurally, how is the composition of our network put together at any point in time. These things provide what’s called “attack surface” for someone from the external world and what you want, as an enterprise, is to reduce that surface." Colon says the next step is to provide this type of capability to a larger pool of people. "We’re hoping through our commercial partner, that they will be able to have that level of reachability into other segments of the general public, particularly the commercial entities out there that can also make use of this technology."
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