The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $3.4 million dollar grant to cybersecurity experts at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois. The project, which establishes the Bro Center of Expertise, will also help members of the research community leverage Bro as a deployment platform for their networking research.Bro is a widely deployed open-source network monitoring platform maintained by ICSI and NCSA, with support from NSF. It was originally developed by Vern Paxson, who now directs networking and security research at ICSI and who will help lead the center. Today, Bro is used to monitor and secure the network infrastructure at major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, open-science communities, and Fortune 50 companies.