http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701836 By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek May 13, 2010 The federal government is developing a cybersecurity research and development agenda that would focus on three priorities that could lead to "game-changing" technologies to improve the "trustworthiness of cyberspace," the National Science Foundation announced in a Federal Register notice Thursday. NSF is working through the inter-agency Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program with the Department of Homeland Security, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, and others to lay out a strategy that would see the government invest in research on economic incentives for cybersecurity, the development of "trustworthy spaces" online, and ways of managing the network in such a way to make work chaotic for would-be attackers. NITRD will be detailing the research more thoroughly in an event in Berkeley, Calif., on May 19, and will follow that event up with the establishment of an online forum, the Cybersecurity R&D Kickoff Forum, which will allow public comment on the plans. The government will be looking for ideas on how to refine or enhance its research themes, the challenges each theme presents, any associated use cases or state-of-the-art activities, and how and whether the private sector should be involved. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Sun May 16 2010 - 22:16:10 PDT
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