Clemson Researchers land $3M to build Cyberattack Defenses

All kinds of data from government secrets to credit card numbers are vulnerable to computer hacking, but new defenses could be on the way with the help of a nationwide team of security experts, including a Clemson University assistant professor. The Clemson University Media Relations Department reports that Hongxin Hu from Clemson’s School of Computing plays a key role in a research project that brings together computer experts from five universities with $3 million from the National Science Foundation and the company VMware. The operating system they are creating, S2OS, could fundamentally change how large computer and network systems are built, making the data stored in them and transmitted more secure. It could be transformative for cloud computing, which has become critical to the nation’s cyberinfrastructure. To read more, visit www.clemson.edu.