The idea, from security engineers at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, is to slow down internet traffic, including malicious data, to give networks time to deal with attacks. To do this, when a cyber attack has been sensed, an algorithm sends hyper-speed signals accelerating ahead of the malicious data packets to mobilise defences.
“Slowing the malicious traffic by just a few milliseconds will let the hyper-speed commands activate sophisticated network-defence mechanisms,” says Sujeet Shenoi at Tulsa (International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2012.02.001).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21756-bullet-time-to-stop-cyber-attacks-on-power-grids.html
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