DARPA chief: Cybersecurity rating project could bolster cyber insurance market

A new effort to rate the security of software and systems could help foster a much-needed better understanding of the economics of cybersecurity and enable an expansion of the cyber insurance market, according to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Arati Prabhakar.

Inside Cybersecurity reported this week that prominent security researcher Peiter Zatko had secured a $499,935 contract funded by DARPA to independently test and rate the cybersecurity of commercial software and systems. The endeavor would create an unprecedented,...