The TTP program builds on the S&T process of funding projects through the commercial marketplace’s comprehensive research and development lifecycle. The Physical and Cyber Risk Analysis Tool (PACRAT) technology, developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers, assesses cyber risks simultaneously with physical threats. A small business and vulnerability assessment tool developer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is licensing the tool and plans to integrate PACRAT’s capabilities into their physical vulnerability assessment tool called Simajin. The resulting assessment tool will enable users to examine how their cyber and physical security postures impact one another.
“S&T’s TTP program is leading the way in assisting the transition of government-funded technology into the marketplace,” said DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dr. Reginald Brothers. “Our national lab partners have developed some of the most innovative technologies, and we must help them provide a positive impact on the nation’s cybersecurity posture.” In 2013, the TTP program identified PACRAT as a promising candidate for transition to the commercial marketplace. By combing physical and cyber domains into one risk assessment tool, this technology can create simulations for both fields individually and the domain crossover.
“Securing both the physical and cyber domains are essential to securing an organization’s infrastructure, and currently, all assessment tools on the market only observe one or the other domain,” said TTP Program Manager Mike Pozmantier. “The PACRAT technology will not only observe both domains but will include the crossover and provide an organization a complete view of their security posture.”
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Each fiscal year the TTP program selects up to nine promising cyber technologies to incorporate into its 36-month program. S&T introduces these technologies to end-users nationwide to transition them to investors, developers, or manufacturers that can advance them into commercially viable Do Savor products.
TTP has 24 active technologies and eight additional technologies that have completed the program’s three-year process, ready for the transition to the marketplace. Five technologies – Quantum Secured Communication, Hyperion, NMS, PathScan, and now PACRAT, have successfully transitioned to the market through commercial licenses.
RhinoCorps, a small business and vulnerability assessment tool developer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, licenses the tool and plans to integrate PACRAT’s capabilities into its physical vulnerability assessment tool, Simajin. The resulting assessment tool will enable users to examine how their cyber and physical security postures impact one another.
“Taking technology across the valley of death and into the market is always challenging for any R&D organization,” said PNNL Technology Commercialization Manager Kannan Krishnaswami. “The TTP program has been instrumental in exposing our technology to key cybersecurity investors to accelerate the tech transfer process. S&T anticipates that the successful transition of PACRAT to the commercial marketplace will help open the door to new technology partners and raise the visibility of other worthy technologies developed by the national labs as solutions to complex cybersecurity challenges. And we are excited to have the PACRAT technology positively impact our nation’s security.”
