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  • Microsoft's Interest in FPGAs
    Wired Magazine has a great artcile about Micros'ft Catapult; an effort to integrate FPGAs into servers. While originally the FPGA effort was to help Bing; Microsoft wanted one platform for its datacenters. FPGAs are not in Azure, Microsoft's Datacenters…
  • Space, the Final Frontier for Cybersecurity?
    David Livingstone and Patricia Lewis have released a Chatham House report on the intersection between cybersecurity and space. This report was the result of analysis into the area. It identifies the key issues associated with the management of…
  • SoS-Vo Member - Shawn Riley Appointed to DarkLight Board of Advisors
    Frequent contributor to the SoS Virtual Organization. Shawn Riley was appointed to the Board of Advisors of DarkLight. DarkLight’s mission is to capture human expertise and decision making process in order to model knowledge for combating cyber threats.…
  • President Obama Appoints first Chief Information Security Officer for Federal Government
    President Obama appointed Gregory Touhill as the first Chief Information Security Officer, CISO, for the Federal Government. He was the Department of Homeland Security’s deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications. Unlike Czar's of…
  • NIST Releases DRAFT Tool - Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder
    NIST releases a draft Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder, a tool organizations can use to assess their cybersecurity effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management efforts. It's named after Baldrige, the Commerence Secretary under…
  • ISEF SoS Winners Visit NSA
    NSA released an article about the visit that the three winning students. These students are outstanding cybersecurity researchers. https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/news-stories/2016/research-sponsors-special-award.shtml More Information about the ISEF…
  • Metrics and Best Practices Survey
    Researchers at Towson University and the United States Military Academy are examining what organizations value in their cyber systems in an effort to identify the preferred metrics and best practices to implement.   Please contribute…
  • Metrics and Best Practices Survey
    Researchers at Towson University and the United States Military Academy are examining what organizations value in their cyber systems in an effort to identify the preferred metrics and best practices to implement.   Please contribute…
  • Inspiring the Next GENeration of CYBER stars
    GenCyber, a joint venture sponsored by the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation, provides summer cybersecurity camp experiences for students and teachers at the K-12 level. The goals of the program are to help all students…
  • CyberSTEM Camps at Maryland CyberSecurity Center
    MC2 facilitates a wide variety of educational opportunities on the UMD campus. MC2 also sponsors a number of educational/outreach events for lower-school, middle-school, and high-school students, especially targeting women and under-…
  • UMD Researcher Elissa Redmiles Presents at IEEE Security and Privacy
    On the first day of IEEE Security and Privacy, Elissa Redmiles from the University of Maryland Lablet, presented her paper she wote with fellow University of Maryland researchers Amelia Malone, and Michelle Mazurek. The paper was a study on how…
  • Hot Research in Cybersecurity Fuels HotSoS 2016
    Carnegie Mellon University hosted HotSoS 2016, the Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security, on April 19-21 in Pittsburgh, PA. Researchers from multiple academic fields came together for presentations demonstrating methodical, rigorous…