Georgia Tech said Thursday the four-year “Theia” project aims to track the movement of data between computers and Internet hosts to determine if malicious code intercepts data during transfer.
“If we have the ability to fully track how data is processed until it reaches the intended recipient, then we can better detect and stop advanced persistent threats,” said Wenke Lee, primary investigator and professor in the College of Computing.
The research will focus on data flow through user, program, file system storage, network output and back, Georgia Tech added.
Lee noted that the goal is to establish transparency and visibility into data processing functions.