US healthcare agency to invest $50M in threat detection tools that predict attackers’ next moves

With healthcare increasingly in attackers’ crosshairs, a US federal agency wants to spend more than $50 million to create a fully automated open-source threat detection tool for healthcare businesses, along with the ability to predict what an attacker is planning to do, according to an RFP published Friday.

The proposal is from the 2-year-old Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a unit within the National Institutes of Health, itself a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services. …

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