via InformationWeek

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 new project, DETECT, will make improvements to USC’s Information Sciences Institute’s existing DETERlab, which provides an isolated 400-node mini-Internet hosted by USC and the University of California Berkeley that security researchers use to simulate the real Internet.

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