Purely speculation, but could this be a way for Carnegie Mellon University to grab back the prestige that CERT gets even though it's CMU that operates CERT? I've been aware of CERT for 20 years but never realized that it was a CMU project. On the other hand, Stanford University gets prestige from lots of things that use their name, even things like the Stanford Research Institute that are no longer part of it. So maybe CMU will continue doing everything that CERT did but with CMU's name at the helm.
VMU has been heavily involved in quite a bit of what has become mainstream in federal government InfoSec. They were the ones who built out US-CERT originally, they have had a hand in helping set up many of the CSIRT/SOC operations within the federal government, and they continue to play a role in helping train/evaluate these teams. Although I suspect that many people outside of (gov) InfoSec are aware of this history.
