Pioneering Cybersecurity Research: Benzel battling malware [Women to Watch]

Terry Benzel is deputy director of the Computer Networks Division at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC). She also leads the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) project and DETERLab test bed projects funded by U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The projects are developing an experimental infrastructure network and scientifically rigorous testing frameworks and methodologies to support the development and demonstration of next-generation information security technologies for cyberdefense.