HP, CSC and EMC open cybersecurity research centre in Berlin
Berlin-based research centre to demonstrate new systems of cyber defence
By Antony Savvas | Computerworld UK | Published: 11:35, 17 May 2012
Outsourcer CSC, HP and communications research organisation Fraunhofer FOKUS have joined together to open a cybersecurity research centre in Berlin.
As part of a global collaboration, the Cybersecurity Demonstration Center (CDC) is also supported by EMC, RSA, McAfee and Sourcefire. The CDC will be used to demonstrate different attacks on its IT infrastructure, with the aim of developing new cyber attack defences for the security industry to take up.
“The base for trust, data protection and security are constantly changing. It is important that there are systems that are able to react effectively on danger and that can be integrated flexibly”, said professor Radu Popescu-Zeletin, head of Fraunhofer FOKUS.
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New systems of security defence will be demonstrated at the CDC from this month.
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