Earlier this week, CivSource reported
on $6 billion in awards made by the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) to 17 Big IT vendors for cybersecurity. Now, the NSA has announced
that it will also be opening a new out post in North Carolina, and IBM
made a strategic acquisition of Israeli company Trusteer in its effort to build a super security lab.
North
Carolina State University is partnering with the NSA on its new lab.That lab will work to analyze the data coming out of the NSA’s large
operations center in Bluffdale, Utah. The University won a $60 million
contract as part of the partnership. The school announced the contract
on Thursday, noting that negotiations had been underway for
approximately three years.
The new lab will also be affiliated with the NSA’s military
component, the Central Security Service, which focuses on protecting
national security systems and to produce electronic intelligence
information. Unsurprisingly many of the terms of the partnership are
being kept secret, although the Salt Lake Tribune reports
that the NSA wanted to take advantage of the overall academic community
inside the Research Triangle in North Carolina. Researchers will be
focused on helping the agency figure out how to manage the data coming
out of its massive domestic and international dragnet.
IBM also plans to build out its cybersecurity apparatus with a new
Israeli acquisition. The company purchased Israeli-company Trusteer for
an undisclosed sum. Trusteer is focused on monitoring risks to computer
systems. IBM plans to use the purchase as the foundation for a
cybersecurity lab inside Israel.
Trusteer’s client base consists of a number of large US and UK
financial institutions. Financial institutions often face the same level
of complex threats as governments, as would be attackers seek sensitive
and high value consumer data.
IBM is making a big play for the cybersecurity market, the company
has some 3,000 security related patents and has made several strategic
acquisitions of companies focused on security. The company is working to
expand not only the data points it monitors but through the lab work
aims to get ahead of threats.
By: Bailey McCann
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