Pentagon looks to analog monitoring to secure IoT

DARPA announced the Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS) program, directing $36M to develop cyber-defense capabilities that analyze involuntary analog emissions (power, EM, acoustic, thermal) from embedded and mission-specific devices; the article notes existing startups (Virta Labs, PFP Cybersecurity) offering power- and RF-based anomaly detection and explains the program’s goals, constraints, and proposal timeline.