UMD business school awarded $200K for cybersecurity work

Maryland is widely promoted as an “epicenter” of national cybersecurity, and the Supply Chain Management Center (SCMC) at the University of Maryland, College Park, is another component of the state’s cyber infrastructure.
And a $200,000 award from the federal government’s technology agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will help the SCMC complete its research and development work by early 2014, according to a press release from the university.
The SCMC is developing tools to help private companies and government agencies visualize and map their “cyber supply chains”: the managing of cybersecurity requirements needed for IT systems and networks. Using this cyber supply mapping portal, a private company could, for instance, recognize more quickly which of their computers need not be connected to outside networks all the time — especially computers housing important files.
The SMC is housed inside the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.