TRUST:Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies

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TRUSTTeam for Research in Ubiquitous Secure
Technologies

• Shankar Sastry (Berkeley), Mike Reiter (CMU),
  Steve Wicker (Cornell), John Mitchell (Stanford),
  Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt)

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Attacks are growing in sophistication
Serious hackers
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Technology Generations of Information Assurance
1st Generation (Prevent Intrusions)
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TRUSTed Systems and Software

• TRUST is more than resistance to information
  attack
• Todays systems and networks are fragile,
  difficult-to- compose and maintain
• Non-robust
• Non-adaptive
• Untrustworthy
• Point failures bring down systems
• Difficult, costly-to-compose useful systems from
  multiple components
• Poor or nonexistent means for building reliable
  systems from necessarily unreliable components
• Poor understanding of vulnerabilities of
  networks, performance under and uncharacterized
  attacks
• No clear history, pedigree on data, code

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TRUST worthy Systems

• More than an Information Technology issue
• Complicated interdependencies and composition
  issues
• Spans security, systems, and social, legal and
  economic sciences
• Cyber security for computer networks
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Economic policy, privacy
• TRUST holistic interdisciplinary systems view
  of security, software technology, analysis of
  complex interacting systems, economic, legal, and
  public policy issues
• Goals
• Composition and computer security for component
  technologies
• Integrate and evaluate on testbeds
• Address societal objectives for stakeholders in
  real systems

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Research Agenda

• Security Science (Schneider)
• Software Security (Mitchell)
• Trusted Platforms (Boneh)
• Applied Cryptography Protocols (Wagner)
• Network Security (Joseph)
• Systems Science (Schmidt)
• Interdependency Modeling and Analysis
  (Anantharam)
• Secure Network Embedded Systems (Wicker)
• Model Based Integration of Trusted Components
  (Sztipanovits)
• Secure Information Management Tools (Birman)
• Social, Economic and Legal Considerations
  (Samuelson)
• Economics, Public Policy and Societal Challenges
  (Varian)
• Digital Forensics and Privacy (Tygar)
• Human computer Interfaces and Security (Reiter)

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Integration of Research Agenda

• Four testbeds chosen to be responsive to national
  needs Computer and network security, Critical
  infrastructure protection, Privacy
• Integration testbed (Sztipanovits)
• Secure Network Embedded Systems (Wicker)
• Planet Lab (Culler)
• Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research
  testbed (DETER) (Benzel/Joseph/Sastry)
• Technical Management Plan through time sensitive
  internal deliverables of software, systems among
  team members
• Exchange of scientific personnel among team
  members

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Broad Security and Privacy Vision
Societal Challenges
Privacy
TRUST will address social, economic and legal
challenges
Critical
Computer and
Infrastructure
Network Security
Integrative
Testbeds
Network Security
Specific systems that
Testbed
represent these social
Secure Networked
Power Grid
challenges.
Embedded Systems
Testbed
Testbed
Component Technologies
Secure Info Mgt. Software Tools
Component technologies
that will provide solutions
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Education Development

• Security must be consciously engineered into new
  and legacy critical infrastructure systems
• Every component level needs rethinking and
  education need to build in TRUST security
  science, systems science and social, legal,
  economic considerations into every course in
  undergrad and grad curricula (liberal
  technologically literate education)

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Human Resource Development leveraging our
experience

• Cornell has had partnerships with the Information
  Assurance Institute at AFRL, Rome
• CMU students have extensive access to Software
  Engineering Institute and CERT.
• Stanford has extensive interactions with USPS,
  Secret Service, and brings the Center for
  Strategic and International Studies for policy
  matters
• Vanderbilt runs the Institute for Software
  Integrated Systems and Institute for Public
  Policy Studies
• At Berkeley, we have the Center for Information
  Technology Research in the Interest of Society
  (CITRIS), aimed at bringing innovative
  technologies to societal scale systems

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Course Work Development

• Course work to have TRUST built in at all
  levels--undergrad, grad, advanced seminars.
  Repositories will be maintained professionally by
  the Vanderbilt System CAPE/ELM.
• Security Science operating systems, programming
  languages, cryptography, secure networking,
• Social Sciences Bringing policy, social,
  economic issues to student community economics
  of information technology, information
  management, privacy and security
• Systems Science systems integration using
  software curriculum needs to be developed from
  scratch, capstone design course for undergrads
  (or 5th year MS)
• NSA-NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in
  Information Assurance Education to be developed
  at San Jose State, on going certification efforts
  for other Centers of Excellence at CMU

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Workforce Training

• Undergrad and Grad Student mentorship and
  development features
• Exchanging students and postdocs
• REU activities at partner campuses
• Student Entrepreneurship clubs (Vertex, Bases)
• Partnership with Cornell Information Assurance
  Institute
• US workforce in research challenge areas with
  infrastructure holders, industry partners
• Summer and Winter Educational Institutes and
  Retreats for TRUST
• In-depth discussion of research challenge areas
• Testbed and integrative activities

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Diversity Plans

• K-12 Outreach Berkeley Foundation for
  Opportunities in IT (BFOIT) for Oakland/Bay Area
  secondary schools
• Summer Research in Information Assurance for HBCU
  faculty CMU as a Center of Academic Excellence
  in Information Assurance education has worked
  with Howard, Morgan State, UTEP, Hampton, Texas
  AM, Corpus Christi, Cal State Fullerton
  emphasizes both teaching and research at CyLab
• Curriculum Development for Hispanic Serving
  Institutions NSA/NSF Center at SJSU in
  Information Assurance education
• Summer Internship for HBCU faculty in Systems
  Science (SIPHER) California Community Colleges,
  Fisk, Tennessee State, UAB, Morehouse, Spelman,
  Tuskegee,

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Diversity Plans

• Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering
  Research at Berkeley (SUPERB). Undergrad research
  for students from institutions serving
  under-represented groups. Overwhelming demand for
  TRUST.
• Womens Colleges Summer Immersion Institute for
  students from Colleges like Mills, Smith, Ithaca
  College with sponsorship of CRA-W
• Community Outreach public town hall style
  forums about privacy and security, economic and
  legislative issues for secure systems. Engagement
  with local and state authorities, media and first
  responders.

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Knowledge Transfer Plans TRUST as a Public
Private Partnership

• TRUST as a DMZ (trusted intermediary!) between
  industry, government, non-profit and academia for
  answering hard questions
• Who will pay for security
• Should the Feds play the role of market maker
• Roadmaps for guiding investment
• The role of regulation/insurance
• Open dissemination of research
• Publications and software
• Short courses at ACM/IEEE/Infrastructure
  Protection meetings
• Public lectures and forums
• Curriculum development and courses

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Technology Transfer to Start Ups, Industry and
Infrastructure Stakeholders

• Strategies for improving tech transfer
• Economic, Legal and Social Implications of TRUST
  technology built into technology
• Testbeds to demonstrate robustness and
  scalability
• Developing an eco-system with different
  constituencies by
• Focused Workshops
• Strategic Investment Sessions between
  stakeholders, industry, government
• Internships for students in industry and
  infrastructure sectors
• Internships for post docs and faculty as
  entrepreneur incubators at venture partners

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Leadership and Outreach to other groups

• EU-IST and US partnerships in dependability and
  TRUST
• OSTP/DHS workshops
• Workshops for venture partners
• Special issues of ACM/IEEE/
• ESCHER, a non-profit for repositorying TRUST
  software
• ACM-SIGBED
• Partnerships with Singapore (Nanyang) and Taiwan
  (National Chiao Tong and National Taiwan
  University)

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Management

• Exec Committee made up of PIs Ruzena Bajcsy
  (Diversity Outreach Coordinator)
• Project Manager and Executive Director for
  Education and Outreach (TBD)
• Each team (Security Technology, Systems Science,
  Social Science) has its coordinator
• Each technical challenge area has its lead
  faculty, responsible for meeting
  deliverables/re-negotiating deliverables
• Technical Management Plan through deliverables,
  which can be renegotiated at the bi-annual
  retreats

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Management

• Interdependency among elements built in by
  interleaving deliverables and using testbeds for
  integrating and evaluating research products
• External Advisory Committee consists of
  representatives from academia, stakeholders in
  the government, industry, and utility stakeholders

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Why an NSF-STC TRUST?

• Interdisciplinary problems with issues of law,
  privacy, economics, and public policy
• Problem is too large and complex for any one
  team. Need to simultaneously work on Security
  Science, Systems Science (of complex systems),
  and Social Science issues
• No single silver bullet, but a number of novel
  and promising approaches
• Huge leverage with education, industrial
  transition, diversity efforts with comprehensive
  team