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Public, Private Sectors Partner For Innovation


By Jennifer deJong
August 1, 2007 — 
Phrases like “public and private sector collaboration” get bandied about like so much talk from government officials. But sometimes it’s more than just rhetoric.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program known as the Science and Technology Directorate is funding private sector research efforts to drive development of technologies that would help secure the Internet and other critical networks, on which much of the U.S. economy depends.

In January 2006 application security toolmaker Coverity, Stanford University and anti-virus software maker Symantec were jointly awarded about US$1 million from DHS. The contract funds a project known as “Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open?Source Hardening,” designed to make sure that widely used open source offerings, including Apache, FreeBSD, GTK, Linux, Mozilla, MySQL and PostgreSQL, are secure, said Coverity CEO Seth Hallem. The two-part effort identifies potential weaknesses in open source software and then provides the necessary remediation. “The contract has allowed us to conduct new research,” he said. It lets DHS take advantage of the findings, while also providing it with a pathway to commercialize that research, he said.

Hallem did not offer further details of the project, but said results of the research effort will make their way into the next release of Prevent, Coverity’s source code analyzer for C, C++ and Java.


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