$6.5M Cybercrime Initiative By Virginia Universities Announced

Two Virginia schools on Tuesday will launch a $6.5 million project to help sort out the myriad legal, technical and policy challenges involved in steeling the nation's most vital computer systems against cyberattacks. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Project - to . . . Two Virginia schools on Tuesday will launch a $6.5 million project to help sort out the myriad legal, technical and policy challenges involved in steeling the nation's most vital computer systems against cyberattacks. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Project - to be housed at the George Mason School of Law in Arlington - is a collaborative effort between GMU's National Center for Technology and Law and researchers and academicians at James Madison University.

The project will be led by John A. McCarthy, a former member of a Clinton administration team that facilitated government and private-sector collaboration in preparing key computer systems for the Y2K conversion.

Among the more pressing problems the new center will tackle are legal issues that have stymied plans to establish more fluid and open information-sharing networks between the public and private sector.

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