U.S. to Fund Hacking Projects That Thwart Cyber-Threats
From the post:
LAS VEGAS—Former L0pht hacker known as “Mudge” discussed a new government initiative to fund hacking projects designed to help block cyber-threats at the Black Hat security conference.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund new cyber-security proposals under the new Cyber-Fast Track project, Peiter Zatko, currently a program manager for the agency’s information innovation office, said in his Aug. 4 keynote speech at Black Hat. The project, originally announced at ShmooCon cyber-security conference back in January, will bridge the gap between hacker groups and government agencies, he said.
Under the Cyber-Fast Track initiative, DARPA will fund between 20 to 100 projects annually. Open to anybody, researchers can pitch DARPA with ideas and have a project approved and funded within 14 days of the application, Zatko said. Developers will retain intellectual property rights while DARPA will operate under government use rights, Zatko said.
That sounds awfully attractive.
Suspect the more specific the proposal the better chance of getting it funded, so will be omitting the universality arguments about topic maps and the coming data singularity. 😉
I don’t hang out in hacker circles (oversight on my part) so I guess the first step is to look at some of the conferences to see what threats are being discussed along with current remedies. To get a feel for where topic maps could make a difference.
If you do hang out in hacker circles (don’t tell me) and you are interested in working on a topic maps proposals for DARPA (I won’t ask where you get all your brilliant hacker ideas from, you must just read a lot), drop me a post.