The NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SATC) program provides an opportunity for its principal investigators and the larger community of cyber security researchers to discuss the latest advances in cyber security, demonstrate technical accomplishments, and advise NSF on promising future research directions. This proposal defines a technical program agenda that highlights the contributions of the participating NSF directorates, and addresses the research themes, established in the OSTP Strategy for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program, especially including accelerating transition to practice, developing scientific foundations, and strengthening education and training in cyber security.
This project developed the program for a significant invitational meeting of approximately 300 Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. This effort facilitated collaborations among computer scientists, electrical engineers, economists, psychologists, sociologists, and others working on cyber security The project identified and recruited a stimulating program of speakers and activities for the meeting which toke place in late November 2012. The meeting broadened the perspectives of researchers from all of the fields involved, helped them begin to form new partnerships and collaborations, and helped them to better understand how their discoveries and advances may be transitioned into practice. It also helped put researchers with diverse backgrounds from diverse institutions on a common footing. Thirty plenary talks and 95 posters were presented at the conference, representing a wide array of advancements in computer security and information assurance. Nearly half of those responding reported they met someone at the meeting with whom they may collaborate on a future proposal. Some topics covered in the plenary sessions included a new era of science and engineering, recent research results that cross disciplines, voting machines and human behavior, understanding encrypted speech, spam economics, implicitly learned passwords, multidisciplinary aspects of cybersecurity, the federal cybersecurity R&D strategic plan, transition to practice, competitions and cybersecurity, massively open online courses and cybersecurity, and how ignorance drives science.
