Brigham Young University (BYU) has been awarded $527,112 to develop a web authentication middleware tool called TrustBase that will significantly upgrade the current Internet website authentication process and improve online security by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). DHS S&T is funding development of TrustBase in coordination with the National Science Foundation. The BYU team is developing TrustBase to address the weaknesses of the certificate-based authentication system. S&T Awards $527K To Brigham Young For Cybersecurity Tech