USC and Cal are experimenting with computer worms that are capable of infecting hundreds of thousands of machines, so cyber-security experts have a lab to put their research and ideas to the test.Click here for the full story!
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Computers are tied to our water, power, banking and finance systems, making the need to study threats to that infrastructure all the more paramount, said Terry Benzel, project lead at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute.
DETERlab was founded in 2003 with a $5.5 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security and funding from the National Science Foundation. The single test bed is connected over the Internet by two physical sites at USC and UC Berkeley. USC conducts more experimental research, while UC Berkeley focuses on operating and developing software for the test bed, Benzel said.
