Cloud Computing: National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million for Cybersecurity Research
August 23, 2013
Grazed from InfoSecurity. Author: Editorial Staff.
The United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF) has pumped nearly $20 million into three cybersecurity initiatives, to support collaborative, multi-university research and education activities that will help protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.
"Cybersecurity is one of the most significant economic and national security challenges facing our nation today," said Farnam Jahanian, the NSF’s assistant director for computer and information science and engineering (CISE), in a statement. "NSF’s investments in foundational research will transform our capacity to secure personal privacy, financial assets, and national interests. These new Frontier awards will enable innovative approaches to cybersecurity, with potential benefits to all sectors of our economy."…
The first award, for research into enabling trustworthy cybersystems for health and wellness, will tackle challenges to providing trustworthy information systems for health and wellness as the result of sensitive information and health-related tasks being increasingly pushed into mobile devices and cloud-based services…
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