Colonies of cyber robots with unique missions can in near real time detect network intruders on computers that support U.S. infrastructure. These "cybots" created for an ORNL software program called UNTAME (Ubiquitous Network Transient Autonomous Mission Entities) may be especially useful for helping government agencies deter, defend, protect against and defeat cyber-attacks. "What scares us the most isn't what we can see, but rather what we can't see," said Joe Trien of the lab's Computational Sciences & Engineering Division. "A coordinated cyber attack could disrupt one or more of U.S. critical infrastructures, and these attacks can reach across the world at the speed of light." Trien led a team of researchers that developed UNTAME. [Contact: