Servo - November 2012

STARTLED INTO ACTION

A biologically-inspired threat monitoring system called STARTLE detects anomalous or threatening conditions by emulating the mammalian conditioned-fear response mechanism. It provides a mechanism of cued-attention which has significant performance and efficiency benefits over conventional techniques.

Applications for STARTLE include:

Autonomous Vehicles

STARTLE can provide enhanced situational awareness and an early threat warning to both an autonomous vehicle and its remote operator. Making use of existing hardware, STARTLE intelligently processes information from multiple onboard sensors, cueing systems to assess and confirm potential threats to the vehicle.

Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS)

The threat detection methods in STARTLE also make it ideal for the detection of anomalous subsystem conditions within a complex system; for example, in internal system status monitoring of manned or autonomous platforms.

Computer Network Defense

STARTLE can be used for the detection of sophisticated computer network threats. It has been demonstrated successfully in detecting penetration test activity in real world computer networks, and can use intercept-derived data from local and cloud-based storage.