DARPA to release research on security ratings for software in 2016

The Defense Advanced  Research Projects Agency has decided the results of its nascent effort to rate the security of software and systems for consumers and insurance professionals will likely be released by next fall, according to an agency spokesman.

Prominent security researcher Peiter Zatko's Cyber Independent Testing Laboratory in Waltham MA, won a $499,935 contract in September for the “Consumer Security Reports” effort, which is being funded by DARPA. At the time, the agency said the schedule for producing...