DARPA To Better Cyber Security - Increasing Research Budget By 50%

Throughout the following five years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is all prepared to raise its budget for cyber security research by 50 percent, according to DARPA's director Regina Dugan. In a speech at a DARPA cyber security conference on 7th of November, she stated that the arrival of the Internet 40 years back not only unfolded the door to wonderful opportunities, but also to great risks. As the agency helped had helped in creating the Internet, it has to be a bit responsible for protecting it.

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The agency has kept increasing its cyber research efforts at a fixed pace since 2009, and the agency’s budget entry for financial year 2012 heightened cyber research sponsorship by $88 million, that is, from $120 million to $208 million. Throughout the following five years, the Agency intends to develop its top line budget investment in cyber research from 8 percent to 12 percent.

DARPA also functions DHS whenever it is required, Regina said. Malicious cyber attacks are not only threatening our bits and bytes; in a bigger picture, these form literal threat to our physical systems, which even lets in our military systems. For this purpose, the focus currently is on increasing portion of our cyber research on the probe of violative potentialities to cater to the military-specific needs. To develop cyber security programs and initiatives, Regina said that DARPA has sought a cyber team formed of experts from diverse fields like the “white hat” hacker community, academia, labs and non-profits, and major commercial companies, and along with them are the Defense and intelligence communities too.