Cybersecurity tool uses machine learning, honeypots to stop attacks

In recent months, the FBI issued a high-impact cybersecurity warning in response to increasing attacks on government targets. Government officials have warned major cities such hacks are a disturbing trend likely to continue. Purdue University researchers may help stop some of those threats with a tool designed to alert organizations to cyberattacks. The system is called LIDAR – which stands for lifelong, intelligent, diverse, agile and robust. "The name for this architecture for network security really defines its significant attributes," said Aly El Gamal, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in Purdue's College of Engineering.