Cyber Research, DHS awards $11.7 million

by certifiedbug on August 14, 2008

in Security

The Homeland Security Department today awarded $11.7 million in grants for cybersecurity research to 13 recipients from industry and academia.The department’s Science and Technology Directorate made some awards to focus research and development on botnets and malware, composable and scalable secure systems, cybersecurity metrics and data anonymization tools. Other awards will be used for research on insider threat detection and mitigation, Internet tomography and topography; network data visualization for information assurance; process control system security and routing security management tools, DHS said.

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