DHS Awards $11.7 Million for Cyber Research

Hot on the heels of the news of cyberattacks in the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will award $11.7 million in grants for cybersecurity research.

In an article on the Federal Computer Week website, Alice Lipowicz says the department will hand out the grants to 13 recipients from both industry and academia. The DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate is responsible for handing out the funds.

Lipowicz says the grants will 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.

Who is getting the funds? According to Lipowicz, the list includes Applied Visions, Inc. of Northport, N.Y.; Computer Associates Inc. of Islandia; N.Y.; Colorado State University and Digital Bond Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Georgia Tech Research Corp.; IBM Corp.; ITT/Dolphin Technology; Johns Hopkins University; Packet Clearing House Inc.; Sandia National Laboratories; Secure64 Software Corp. of Greenwood Village, Colo.; the University of California-San Diego and Washington State University.

“The work conducted by these awardees will drive the technologies and best practices needed to strengthen our nation’s cybersecurity,” Douglas Maughan, cybersecurity research program manager of the directorate’s Command, Control and Interoperability Division, told Lipowicz.

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