University of California at San Diego

For Research On Software Vulnerabilities And Legal Risks To Security Research

Amount

$200,000
Program

Cyber
Date Awarded

3/21/2016
Term

24 Months
Type of Support

Project

Strategies

Cyber

Overview

This grant to the University of California at San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering will support policy-driven research on two important topics: (a) quantifying the legal risk associated with good-faith security research; and (b) modeling the marketplace for zero-day software vulnerabilities.