The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) , the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, and The University of Texas at Dallas have been chosen to take part in a five-year, $7.5 million Department of Defense Multi University Research Initiative grant.
Researchers at the schools will join forces to develop and test security models to safeguard data exchange among government agencies.”In this post 9/11 era, we need to move from the doctrine of a ‘need to know’ policy of information gathering to a more proactive one of ‘need to share’, where people are readily seeking and receiving information,” says Ravi Sandhu, executive director of ICS and a professor in the UTSA Department of Computer Science, in a statement. “One of the problems identified in the 9/11 Commisssion Report, was the inability of people to connect the dots, in part due to the lack of information sharing.”
