From: FederalNewsRadio.com | 1500am
By Jason Miller
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This is where a new partnership between George Mason University and Vencore comes in. Over the next two months, George Mason faculty researchers will work with Vencore to take the initial steps toward developing a cyber risk assessment methodology and tool to help agencies and other organizations analyze the value of the data and determine how best to mitigate potential cyber threats.
“The project itself fits right in with the themes of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Homeland Security Department and other major research initiatives in the federal government, trying to address this question of how do we know if we are secure and what’s the value of the next $100,000 or $1 million of investment for overall security posture and addressing enterprise risk,” said Jean-Pierre Auffret, director of the Research Partnerships and Grants Initiative at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. “These are some of the important questions tied in with some of the challenges with cybersecurity metrics and also some of the challenges with new technologies such as Internet of Things.”
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