A massive change at DARPA

[list-spam at secureconsulting.net (Benjamin Tomhave)]

I think it's a welcome change. It doesn't say so in this article clip,
but he is Dr. Zatko, and has worked in instruction and academia, so it's
not too far a leap for them. He's also been working in the federal space
quite a bit since the L0pht sold out and shutdown. Dan Geer did
something similar a couple years ago when he joined In-Q-Tel.

On 2/11/10 8:42 AM, Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> OK, many of you don't care about DARPA, but here's something that
> happened there you *should* care about.  DARPA funds research, and has
> historically drawn its program managers from the ranks of academia and
> occasionally the military.  This is a massive change in outlook....
>
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10450552-245.html
>
>  Peiter Zatko--a respected hacker known as "Mudge"--has been tapped to
> be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding
> research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to
> protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned.
>
> Zatko will become a program manager in mid-March within the Strategic
> Technologies Office at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects
> Agency), which is the research and development office for the
> Department of Defense. His focus will be cybersecurity, he said in an
> interview with CNET on Tuesday.
>
> One of his main goals will be to fund researchers at hacker spaces,
> start-ups, and boutiques who are most likely to develop technologies
> that can leapfrog what comes out of large corporations. "I want
> revolutionary changes. I don't want evolutionary ones," he said.
>
> He's also hoping that giving a big push to research and development
> will do more to advance the progress of cybersecurity than public
> policy decisions have been able to do over the past few decades.
>
> [...]
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