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Part II An Illustrative Research Agenda
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... This breadth is based on the committee's belief that excessive priority setting in the cybersecurity research field runs significant risks of leaving the nation unprepared for a rapidly changing cybersecurity environment. The committee cautions policy makers strongly against neglecting potentially important topics in their quest to prioritize research.
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From page 78...
...  TowARd A SAFeR And moRe SeCuRe CyBeRSPACe TABLE II.1 Mapping Research Topics to the 10 Provisions of the Committee's Cybersecurity Bill of Rights I II III IV Research Topicsa Availability Recovery Control Confidentiality Category 1 -- Blocking and Limiting the Impact of Compromise 4.1-Secure design, development, x x x x and testing 4.2-Graceful degradation and x x x recovery 4.3-Software and systems x x x assurance Category 2 -- Enabling Accountability 5.1-Attribution x 5.2-Misuse and anomaly detection x x systems 5.3-Digital rights management x Category 3 -- Promoting Deployment 6.1-Usable security x 6.2-Exploitation of previous work x x x x 6.3-Cybersecurity metrics x 6.4-The economics of cybersecurity x x x x 6.5-Security policies x x x Category 4 -- Deterring Would-Be Attackers and Penalizing Attackers 7.1-Legal issues related to x x x x cybersecurity 7.2-Honeypots x 7.3-Forensics x
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From page 79...
...  An ILLuSTRATIVe ReSeARCH AGendA V VI VII VIII Ix x Authentication Flow Control Application Access Awareness Justice x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
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... 0 TowARd A SAFeR And moRe SeCuRe CyBeRSPACe TABLE II.1 Continued I II III IV Research Topicsa Availability Recovery Control Confidentiality Category 5 -- Illustrative Crosscutting Problem-Focused Research Areas 8.1-Security for legacy systems x x x x 8.2-The role of secrecy in x x x x cyberdefense 8.3-Insider threats x 8.4-Security in nontraditional x x x x computing environments and in the context of use 8.5-Secure network architectures x x x 8.6-Attack characterization x x 8.7-Coping with denial-of-service x x attacks 8.8-Dealing with spam x Category 6 -- Speculative Research 9.1-A cyberattack research activity x x x x 9.2-Biological approaches to x x x x security 9.3-Using attack techniques for x x x x defensive purposes 9.4-Cyber-retaliation x x x x NOTE: Some imprecision in this mapping is freely acknowledged, in the sense that a number of the specific mappings mentioned are the result of judgment calls that might be different if a different set of individuals were to make those judgments. As presented in Chapter 3 of this report, the 10 provisions of the Cybersecurity Bill of Rights are as follows: I
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...  An ILLuSTRATIVe ReSeARCH AGendA V VI VII VIII Ix x Authentication Flow Control Application Access Awareness Justice x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x VII. Security in using computing directly or indirectly in important applications, including financial, health care, and electoral transactions, and real-time remote control of devices that interact with physical processes.
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Key Terms

  • cybersecurity research
  • changing cybersecurity
  • nation unprepared
  • significant risks
  • cybersecurity environment

  • research agenda
  • policy makers
  • information technology
  • priority setting


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