NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program now spans multiple directorates. Of particular relevance to this proposal, the Social, Behavioral and Economics (SBE) Directorate is now an important part of SaTC. Increasingly, it is recognized that computer security involves humans and applications, the forte of SBE's research, in additional to the traditional technical problems the Computer Science community, the mainstay of the CISE Directorate, have worked on. Applications of interest are those related to "critical infrastructures", such as electricity delivery, financial systems, and healthcare, all of which offer unique security and privacy concerns in addition to requiring traditional security solutions.
Despite its importance to an eclectic view of computer security, too few proposals integrating social science research and security have been submitted to SaTC. The purpose of the "Cyber Café" is to help promote more interest in proposals that are at the intersection of social science and more traditional computer security research. It is expected that the Cyber Café will foster collaborations between the social science and traditional security communities by informing each of the communities to research interests of the other community and in general helping the two communities build teams that will submit proposals to future SaTC solicitations.
The proposed Cyber Café will be entirely virtual. Participants will have access to this meeting by phone and the Web but in a manner that promotes collaboration, interaction, and team building.
project was to bring together computer scientists and social socientists to cyber security research through an initial, real-time dialog. At the Cyber Cafe, esearchers can share their research ideas, ask for exert help, and identify potential collaborators. The project was conceived by Karl Levitt. The PI Wenke Lee mostly helped with project management. Cyber Cafe was a teleconf event held in Nov. 2, 2012 with over 100 researchers participated and discssed their research interests. In particular, there were presentations by Ed Felton, Jean Camp, Lorrie Cranor, Matt Bishop, Dan Boneh, Sal Stolfo, Karl Rethemeyer and Victor Asal, and Stefan Savage, focusing on how to bring principles of social, behaviroal, and economic (SBE) sciences to cyber secruity resarch. There were also sxi break-out sessions in cyber psychology, cyber ethics, privacy, sociology, finance and criminology, and cyber economics. It was a very successful event where researchers shared their research ideas and visions, and some called for interested colleagues to join force to develop projects and proposals. Amy Lenzo and Karl Levitt co-hosted the event. The meeting website, www.satc-cybercafe.net/ contains presentations by the invited speakers, summaries of breakout sessions, and other information about the event. After the successful event, NSF issued a Dear Colleague Letter (from Keith Marzullo Division Director, CISE/CNS, and Jeryl Mumpower, Division Director, SBE/SES), which solicited EAGER-Scale proposals on the topics covered by the SaTC Cyber Cafe, among others.
