The NSF/IARPA/NSA Workshop on the Science of Security was held November 17-18, 2008 in Berkeley, CA. This meeting brought together over 40 government and academic professionals from computer security and a wide variety of other relevant fields to consider the state of scientific research in computer security and to identify steps toward establishing a stronger scientific basis for computer system security.
The SoS VO is an online community to advance cyber-security science
Virtually every computing system today is at risk from some form of cyber attack. The problem continues to grow in scope, in part because there does not exist today a foundational science of security. While the community is certainly making improvements in the security of many systems, progress is often ad-hoc, muddled, and difficult to measure with respect to actual progress being made.
Augmenting dedicated control systems with real-time sensor and actuator networks poses a number of new challenges in control system design that cannot be addressed with traditional process control methods, including: a) the handling of additional, potentially asynchronous and/or delayed measurements in the overall networked control system, and b) the substantial increase in the number of process state variables, manipulated inputs, and measurements which may impede the ability of centralized control systems to carry out real-time calculations within th
Dynamic networks allow cyber physical devices to connect opportunistically to share and process data gathered from the physical world. This project concerns dynamic networks of emerging cyber physical devices, such as smart phones and on-board embedded computing devices that combine sensors with general-purpose computing environments. These dynamic networks provide a powerful platform of networked devices with significant computation, communication and storage capabilities.
