Security News > 2010 > June > Government devotes more brainpower and money to cybersecurity

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062104680.html By Walter Pincus The Washington Post June 22, 2010 Cybersecurity, fast becoming Washington's growth industry of choice, appears to be in line for a multibillion-dollar injection of federal research dollars, according to a senior intelligence official. Delivering the keynote address at a recent cybersecurity summit sponsored by Defense Daily, Dawn Meyerriecks, deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology, said that along with the White House Office of Science and Technology, her office is going to sponsor major research "where the government's about to spend multiple billions of dollars." This newest element of the federal cybersecurity initiative will not be looking for what Mayerriecks called "classic Beltway . . . commercial answers" to be applied to today's hacker problems at federal agencies. "I think we need to be really innovative, because I think we're going to run out of runway on our current approach," she said. Three themes are to be stressed in this upcoming cybersecurity research agenda, she said. The first is called "tailored trustworthy spaces," which means creating different security levels for different government and non-government Internet activities. Less security is needed for finding baseball scores than when banking or guarding secrets, she said. [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.com

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