April 2011, USV Viterbi Engineer Magazine

More than six years ago, Terry Benzel arrived at the Viterbi School’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) with a mission: create a center to secure cyberspace. Today that center is a research behemoth with 20 scientists, thousands of users, and leadership that has been recognized nationally in the field.           >> Full Story

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will invest 16 million over the next five years to expand a cybersecurity testbed at the University of Southern California (USC).

The University of Southern California has signed a 5-year, $16 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security to expand USC's DETERlab "mini-Internet" security testbed.

Since 2003, the DETER project, supported by the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, and other government agencies has thrust the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) into national leadership in research and design on cyber security testbeds. The US Department of Homeland Security has now signed a 5-year $16 million contract with USC to expand and improve ISI's DETERlab testbed. This new project is called DETECT.