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NSF, Iowa State to launch cybersecurity center

Grant Gross writes in InfoWorld:

Iowa State University and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will join with private businesses to attack cybersecurity problems such as wireless security in a research center opening this year, participants were to announce Monday.

The new Center for Information Protection, funded mostly through membership fees paid by cybersecurity vendors and users, will focus on short-term cybersecurity issues, possibly including research on methods to comply with federal regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, said Doug Jacobson, an Iowa State engineering professor and chief technology officer at Palisade Systems, a network management and security vendor.

The center, the first cybersecurity-focused effort in the NSF's Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program, will focus on issues identified by member companies, Jacobson said. The program has provided seed money for dozens of research projects, many of which are spun out into organizations fully supported by private industry.

The goal of the center will be to come up with new technologies that participants can use to fight common cybersecurity problems, Jacobson said. The intellectual property developed by the center will be shared among member organizations, and members will be able to use the ideas that are generated in products they sell.

posted by Fergie @ 9/19/2005 09:19:00 AM