Cyber Security R&D Center Related News Links

• The Cyber Security Division (CSD) of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate(S&T) received a National Cybersecurity Innovation Award at the Sans Institute’s Second Annual National Cybersecurity Innovation Conference for the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) project (October 2011)
• Cyber Security HOST Project Receives Open Source for America Award (October 2011)
• President Barack Obama Declares October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October 2011)
• CSD Mobile Device Forensics Topic (topic number H-SB011.2-003) in DHS S&T SBIR 11.2 Solicitation (April 2011)
• Douglas Maughan Receives 2011 Tibbetts Award (February 2011)
• Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 11-02 posted (January 2011)
• DHS’s Douglas Maughan interviewed in SC Magazine cover feature article (January 2011)
• Obama Administration officials released a Memorandum of Understanding to speed commercialization of cybersecurity research innovations that support our Nation’s critical infrastructure (December 2010)
  
• Industry Day session held on November 17, 2010 regarding Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), Cyber Security Division (CSD) (November 2010)
  
• Paper explaining the CSD-funded research project was named “best paper” of the Homeland Security Track at the tenth annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security in Waltham, MA. (November 2010)
• DHS S&T Sponsors The Security Innovation Network (SINET) Showcase and Workshop (October 2010)
  
• DHS S&T technology detects bots for Comcast customers (October 2010)
  
• Howard Schmidt, Cybersecurity Coordinator, touts private sector collaborations (September 2010)
  
• Comcast is the first major Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States to start the process of migrating customers to DNS servers that use Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) (October 2010)
  
• Start-up builds products around Suricata, the open source IDS/IPS software championed by the non-profit group Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) (September 2010)
  
• Recent efforts to characterize problems and priorities for federal R&D in cybersecurity, including DHS S&T Roadmap for Cybersecurity Research, described in Computer article (September 2010)
  
• DHS to expand cybersecurity program for researchers (September 2010)
  
• Major milestone reached in the deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the Internet, when the root zone root zone was fully signed (July 2010)
  
• Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine Suricata
  Released (July 2010)
  
• DHS awards $11.7 million for cyber research (Federal Computer Week, August 2008)
• Secure 64 Develops First Automated DNSSEC Signing Application to Help Secure the Internet Worldwide (July 2008)
• United States Government Selects Secure64 for Initiative to Secure Internet Infrastructure (May 2008)
• Telcordia® IP Assure Improves Network Compliance, Availability and Security (July 2008)
• Microsoft Acquires Komoku: Microsoft strengthens anti-malware protection with leading-edge rootkit detection provider (March 2008)
• Research Organization Fights Techno-Terrorists (Signal Magazine, February 2007)




• Researchers crafting intelligent, scaleable WLAN defense (NetworkWorld.com, December 2006)
• Testbeds boost cyber security research (Enterprise Neworks and Servers, April 2006)




• Homeland Security Funds Advanced Cyber-Security Projects (Information Week, November 2005)




• DHS to help defend networks against the newest threats (Government Computer News, December 2005)