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DARPA Boosts Cybersecurity Research Spending 50 Percent
DARPA's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center's operations center is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by an average of 20 analysts who track the health of government networks and analyze the latest cyberthreats.
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) plans to increase spending on cybersecurity research by 50 percent over the next five years.
The amount of funding for cybersecurity research sought by DARPA has risen to $208 million in fiscal 2012, up from $120 million the year before, and that represents just the start of the increase in spending.
Speaking before the agency's Cyber Colloquium, DARPA director Regina Dugan says creative solutions are needed to address security at Internet speed and scale. Dugan notes that military and critical infrastructure networks are easily penetrated, and says that offensive cybercapabilities will be an increasing focus of the agency.
Dugan and other speakers note that layering security technology upon security technology is not working. The size of viruses remains small, but the defensive security apparatus has grown over the years. "This is not to suggest that we stop doing what we are doing in cybersecurity," Dugan says. "But if we continue only down the current path, we will not converge with the threat."
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