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Title: Cyber Security R&D: Developing a vision & Road map (merged) completed

Concise Description:
Vulnerabilities and new exploitations of today’s approach to cyber security are identified daily. However, several key capabilities are absent in today’s cyber security approach, like:
• Provable methods for quantifying trustworthiness and risk within a component or system of components.
• Computational models that capture expected behavior in software, platforms, and networks of systems such that failure, compromise, or vulnerable conditions can be detected in real time or even predicted.
• Techniques for performing and analyzing ensembles of scenarios to develop effective responses to various events and vulnerabilities, leading to the ability to predict outcomes to potential remedies during an event.
• Techniques for understanding the necessary and sufficient conditions required to restore trust and yet maintain functioning and usable systems.

The proposed Round Table discussion on Cybersecurity R&D will bring together cybersecurity production personnel, cybersecurity researchers, and scientific application researchers from across the globe. The purpose of the discussion is to identify the research needs and opportunities associated with cybersecurity. The Round Table discussion will focus especially on those needs associated with supercomputing, user facilities, high-speed networks, laboratories, and other open collaborative science stakeholders. A discussion of how science cybersecurity differs from general cybersecurity will explore the implications these differences may have for cybersecurity research activities.

Many existing research programs and investments emphasize near-term solutions. But the longer-term research needs and tends to lead to incremental rather than transformational change. One more difficulty in existing research programs is the tendency to fund research without including a path towards eventual deployment. Unless science outcomes are infused into the cyber security field in a usable ways, the problems they were intended to address will remain. Therefore, a transformational cyber security research program that focuses on longer-term goals, considers the investments of other agencies and industry, and operates in such a way that the science can be translated into solutions that can be applied, is necessary.

This proposed program would create a proactive and forward-looking approach to research and development in the cyber security area from a rigorous analytical and technical basis that would stimulate new open science research directions and have a lasting impact on cyber security.

Goal:
• Identify the research needs and opportunities associated with cybersecurity for science.
• Gather future science cybersecurity priorities.
• Develop a list of research and development priorities for cybersecurity R&D
• Produce a report describing the results of the discussion, which will provide further impetus to the researchers and the studies in the field.

Key questions for Round Table discussion:
1. What are the key priorities with regard to cyber security research and development over the next decade?
2. What would we recommend, in terms of a program, to address those priorities?
3. How would a country R&D program in this area complement other cyber security research and development initiatives by other agency programs?

Panelsits:
Dept of Telecom, Govt of India
NASSCOM
IIM
IIT
ISPAI (Internet Service Providers Association of India)
Internet Service Providers
ISOC (Internet Society)
Corporate representatives
Civil society organisations

All invited panelists above are part of the organisers and present different stakeholders interest: involve academic, technical, research, Governmental/policy makers, manufacturers, vendors and service providers.

Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Security

Have you organized an IGF workshop before? No

If so, please provide the link to the report:
No link to this report

Would you be the Workshop organizer? Yes

If so, who would you approach as co-organizers ? If not, who do you think should organize it?
Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies, (CSDMS http://www.csdms.in) NOIDA, UP, India, is a not-for-profit research institution established in 1997.

CSDMS is committed to advocacy and developing knowledge solutions for under-privileged societies through the use of innovative and effective Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for development. Our activities are targeted to meet the needs of society in the development sector through research in the field of ICT, undertaking development projects through the usage of knowledge-sharing tools and products like print and electronic media, and building capacity through training programmes. Our multi-cultural team has expertise from across disciplines and cover various aspects of research on ICTs for development.

CSDMS has been an active member of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) processes held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005). CSDMS was also a lead panel speaker at the WGIG summit at Greece (2006). CSDMS is a knowledge partner and lead member of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), which promotes multi-stakeholder partnerships. CSDMS works closely with civil society organisations, private sector enterprises, service and solution providers and governments in India and Asia. We have working relations with several lead international development institutions like UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank, SDC, IDRC and others.

CSDMS has already been a pert of the Internet Governance Forum, Hyderabad, and had organised two wrkshop sessions under the Development and Capacity Building, and Security themes.

The Workshop is proposed on behalf of:Centre for Science Dev

Contact Person: Dr Ravi Gupta

2010 IGF: Vilnius

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