NSA awards $500,000 cybersecurity grant to University of Missouri research
Researchers at the University of Missouri College of Engineering recently received a two-year, approximately $500,000 cybersecurity research grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to develop a security feature that allows different smart devices to intelligently learn from past cyberattacks while having a minimal need for direct human intervention. Their security tool will also incorporate a collaborative network among the developers of these devices for sharing solutions in order to better respond against potential attacks in the future.
Prasad Calyam, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure at the University of Missouri, said commercial developers do not yet have the security techniques necessary to keep up with the changing nature of cyberattacks, which furthers the need for this type of research and related technologies.