Northrup Grumman Funnels Money Into Security Research

Universities getting together to spend millions of Northrup Grumman's dollars on security research? Sounds good to me. Earlier this month, Northrup Grumman announced their new Cybersecurity Research Consortium, which is a teaming of three University research activities:

• CERIAS (Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security)
• CSAIL (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
• CyLab (Carnegie Mellon Cybersecurity Education and Research Center)

Among the topics to be addressed will be trusted computing platforms, control systems security, and mobile phone forensics. The effort is directed at bringing information assurance and security development ahead of security threat trends. Read more at CyLab's CyBlog.