Montana State key player on $7 million contract for cybersecurity research

Montana State University researchers working to improve cybersecurity have won a major contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that aims to automate threat assessment.

The contract is MSU’s first cybersecurity project to receive funding from DARPA, which is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense. The $7.1 million, three-year contract was awarded to MSU’s Harnessing Automation in Cybersecurity Reasoning Lab, also referred to as the HACR Lab, and the Virginia-based cybersecurity company Kudu Dynamics.

Isabel Hicks, MSU News Service