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. of Illinois to create the cyber security risk metric system. Such a system is being called for both domestically and internationally and will be one of the first such systems, Saydjari adds. He notes that CDA bid for three task orders but that DHS so far has only awarded the one task.