[ISN] DHS To Invest $40 Million On Cybersecurity Research

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:12:28 -0600 (CST)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229200206

By Elizabeth Montalbano 
InformationWeek
February 1, 2011

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and research to support the 
Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI) are among areas of 
cybersecurity investment the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will 
make in fiscal year 2011.

The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Security Advanced Research 
Projects Agency (HSARPA) is seeking proposals on 14 areas of 
cybersecurity research it plans to focus on this year, five of which 
will contribute to the CNCI, a series of efforts to provide front-line 
defense against cybersecurity threats, according to a Broad Agency 
Announcement posted on FedBizOpps.gov. The total value of the 
acquisition is $40 million.

The DHS has been investing in cybersecurity for a couple of years 
through HSARPA, and this year shows the agency focusing on both 
traditional methods of security such as software assurance, 
enterprise-level security metrics, and network resiliency, as well as 
more forward-thinking areas of exploration such as making security more 
user-friendly to worker productivity and network

Topics also include areas that became critical security concerns for the 
government last year, such as insider threats -- highlighted by the 
Wikileaks scandal -- and creating modeling and analysis capabilities to 
predict the effects of cyberattacks such as botnets and malware on 
federal government and other critical infrastructure, interest in which 
intensified after the discovery of last year's Stuxnet worm.

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