[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 92 (Thursday, May 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27007-27008]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11444]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Toward a Federal Cybersecurity Research Agenda: Three Game-
changing Themes
AGENCY: The National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and
Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD).
ACTION: Notice.
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800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through
Friday.
DATES: May 19, 2010.
SUMMARY: Representatives from Federal research agencies will present
themes to exemplify and motivate future Federal cybersecurity research
activities.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Overview: This notice is issued by the National Coordination Office
for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
(NITRD) Program. In concert with the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, agencies of the NITRD Program have identified three
initial research and development (R&D) themes to exemplify and motivate
future Federal game-change cybersecurity research activities: (a)
Tailored Trustworthy Spaces, (b) Moving Target, (c) Cyber Economic
Incentives. On Wednesday May 19, 2010, from 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. PDT,
representatives from the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Homeland Security, and other agencies, will present the three themes at
the Claremont Hotel, 41 Tunnel Road, Berkeley, CA 94705. This event
will be webcast. For the event agenda and information about the
webcast, go to: http://www.nitrd.gov/CSThemes.aspx. This event will be
the first discussion of these Federal cybersecurity game-change R&D
objectives and will provide insights into the priorities that are
shaping the direction of Federal research activities. Following this
event, an on-line forum will be opened at http://cybersecurity.nitrd.gov/ to provide an opportunity for comments and
feedback.
Background: With the increased attention to cybersecurity, the
President's Cyberspace Policy Review challenges the Federal community
to develop a framework for R&D strategies that focus on game-changing
technologies that can significantly enhance the trustworthiness of
cyberspace (by ``cyberspace'' we mean the globally interconnected
network of information technology infrastructures, including the
Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded
processors in critical industries). Achieving enduring trustworthiness
of the cyberspace requires new paradigms that re-balance security
asymmetries of today's landscape: the cost of simultaneously satisfying
all the requirements of an ideal cybersecurity solution in a static
system is impossibly high, and so we must enable sub-spaces in
cyberspace to support different security policies and different
security services for different types of interactions; the cost of
attack is asymmetric, favoring the attacker, and so defenders must
increase the cost of attack and must employ methods that enable them to
continue to operate in the face of attack; the lack of meaningful
metrics and economically sound decision making in security misallocates
resources, and so we must promote economic principles that encourage
the broad use of good cybersecurity practices and deter illicit
activities. The research agenda will be built by initially focusing on
the three themes and on enabling component technologies supportive of,
or required by these themes. The Federal research community welcomes
feedback to refine these themes so that they can form the basis of an
enhanced research agenda. In the pursuit of these three initial themes,
we expect new themes, possibly complementary and possibly overlapping,
will emerge, enriching our understanding of how to design and build a
more trustworthy cyberspace.
Submitted by the National Science Foundation for the National
Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology
Research and Development (NITRD).
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Dated: May 10, 2010.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2010-11444 Filed 5-12-10; 8:45 am]
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