Trust Automation launches new cyber defense division

Trust Automation Inc. has created a new operating division that will develop and deliver the next generation of cyber defense technologies.

Called Trust Intelligence Systems, the new division iscommercializing the Autonomic Intelligent Cyber Sensor (AICS), which usesadvanced machine learning techniques and specialized sensors to detect andmitigate cyber attacks on industrial control systems. Trust IntelligenceSystems is offering AICS under an exclusive license from the U.S. Department ofEnergy’s Idaho National Laboratory, which developed the technology to protectvulnerable energy, water and industrial infrastructure.

Trust Intelligence Systems is also developing military cyberdefense and electronic warfare systems that build upon Trust’s experience withadvanced signal processing, sensing and energy-management systems—as well asthe company’s ability to harden these systems for battlefield use.

“The common thread running through Trust IntelligenceSystems is the extension of our core engineering competencies with recentadvances in computing and machine learning. Our mission is to create powerfulcyber defense systems capable of protecting our warfighters in the field andour citizens at home,” says Marc Takken, the division’s executive vice president.