BLACKSBURG, Va., March 11 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) funded 19 projects for a total of $1.9 million to support critical infrastructure cybersecurity in such crucial industries as transportation, power grids, water, supply chain, manufacturing, Internet of Things, health care, communications networks, and more.
"The critical infrastructure we rely upon - power, water, manufacturing and other vital systems - is vulnerable to cyberattacks now more than ever before," said Luiz DaSilva, CCI executive director and the Bradley Professor of Cybersecurity. "Fortunately, Virginia has a powerful cohort of cybersecurity researchers who combine their...