The University of Southern California has signed a 5-year, $16 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security. The government funding will support a new project dubbed DETECT that will feature advanced cyber security techniques and tools. The DETERlab is a 400-node network divvied up between USC’s Information Sciences Institute and UC Berkeley that enables researchers to examine the impact of malware and other security threats without messing with the real Internet. The lab uses the Emulab cluster testbed software developed at the University of Utah.”]