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Cyber Defense Agency Receives $1M for Cyber Risk Metrics

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

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Cyber Defense Agency, LLC, a Wisconsin-based security consulting and research services firm, has received a one-year, $1 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop risk metrics for cyber security. Under the contract CDA will be assessing which technologies and combinations of technologies and architectures work best in protecting networks, Sami Saydjari, CDA's president, tells TR2. He says that CDA will combine a risk assessment system it is developing with a modeling system developed by the Univ.…

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