S&T NGCI Fact Sheet
The NGCI Apex project addresses challenges by providing the financial services sector with the technologies and tools to confront when advanced adversaries attack cyber systems and networks.
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The NGCI Apex project addresses challenges by providing the financial services sector with the technologies and tools to confront when advanced adversaries attack cyber systems and networks.
Provides the results of an assessment of the Department of Homeland Security to align the programmatic activities and organizational structure with the mission sets and goals identified in the QHSR.
DHS tasked S&T with creating a program to focus on the commercialization of federally funded cybersecurity research.
S&T SwQA is developing innovative approaches to re-duce the risk and cost of software failures.
DHS, through its ITF, is part of the federal response to EO 13636 on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security, signed by the President on February 12, 2013, and the Presidential Policy Directive-21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (CISR/PPD-21).
Current mobile security techniques have evolved from a desktop-centric approach.
In 2008, based on the need of the Financial Services Sector, S&T began funding the DECIDE project. DECIDE is a software suite that significantly advances state-of-the-art critical infrastructure protection exercises.
The Defense Experimental Research (DETER) testbed project enables cybersecurity researchers to run experiments on a secure "virtual Internet." The testbed provides contained environments that allow researchers to safely test advanced defense mechanisms against "live" threats without endangering other research or the larger Internet. The project was originally jointly funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate and the National Science Foundation.
Secretary Napolitano highlighted DHS' progress in 2011, emphasizing major steps taken to enhance America's capabilities to guard against terrorism.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) Office of Cybersecurity & Communications Assistant Secretary Dr. Andy Ozment addresses DHS’ role in the recent compromise at OPM and how DHS is working with OPM and other agencies to accelerate improved cybersecurity across the Federal Government.