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... Rather than echo these reports and expand their lists of proposed projects, the committee has focused on foundational research strategies for organizing people, technologies, and governance. These strategies seek to ensure the sustained support needed to create an agile, effective research community, with collaborative links across disciplines and between research and practice.
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... •  Integrate the social, behavioral, and decision sciences into the security science research effort, since all cybersecurity challenges and mitiga tions involve people and organizations. •  Integrate engineering and operations for a life-cycle understanding of systems.
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... In the human sciences, they include work in judgment, decision making, interface design, and organizational behavior. INCLUDE THE SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND DECISION SCIENCES IN SECURITY SCIENCE Technical approaches alone will not suffice for cybersecurity as long as humans play roles in systems as developers, users, operators, or adversaries.
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... The committee identifies barriers to collaboration both within and among the disciplines and discusses strategic institutional options to overcome them. Those strategies include creating institutional settings with the following: support reserved for projects that are jointly defined by members of different disciplines; working groups with the sustained interpersonal contact needed to create trusted relationships and absorb one another's work practices; training programs in the essentials of other disciplines, both short term for working professionals and extended at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels; and positions that require their holders to demonstrate both practical and academic accomplishments.
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... If successful, cybersecurity research will benefit not only from the substantive knowledge of the social, behavioral, and decision sciences, but also from absorbing their research culture with respect to theory building, hypothesis testing, method validation, experimentation, and knowledge accumulation -- just as they will learn from the complementary expertise of the cybersecurity community. Thus, these collaborations have transformative potential for the participating disciplines, while addressing the urgent practical problems of cybersecurity.
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... Many challenges span them -- making an understanding of how they interact critical. Research that links social, behavioral, and decision sciences and cybersecurity should encourage advances in cybersecurity practices 1 National Science and Technology Council, Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan: Ensuring Prosperity and National Security, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program, February 2016.
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... FOSTER INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE SECURITY SCIENCE The research cultures that have developed in the security community and affiliated disciplines will increasingly need to adjust to embrace and incorporate lessons from both a wider variety of disciplines and practi­ioners, including the developers, and administrators responsible t for securing real-world operational systems. Given the dynamic, rapidly evolving nature of the problem, the cybersecurity research community itself has struggled to develop a sustained science of security.
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... There are also research efforts in the classified and unclassified domains that leverage similarities in basic technologies, humans interacting with systems, and organizations managing them. Making those connections is not always done, however.
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... Cybersecurity can be viewed as a cutting edge of computing that demands a broad, multidisciplinary effort. Addressing the global cybersecurity challenge needs not just computer science, engineering science, and mathematics, but also partnerships with other disciplines to draw on what we know and understand about human nature and how humans interact with and manage systems -- and each other.


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