Cyber Security Information Assurance Research and Development
Senior Steering Group (CSIA R&D SSG)
Overview
In January 2008, the President initiated the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. One of the goals of the CNCI is to develop "leap-ahead" technologies that would achieve orders-of-magnitude improvements in cybersecurity. Based on this directive, a NITRD Senior Steering Group for Cybersecurity R&D was established to provide a responsive and robust conduit for cybersecurity R&D information across the policy, fiscal, and research levels of the Government. The SSG is composed of senior representatives of agencies with national cybersecurity leadership positions, including: DoD, ODNI, DHS, NSA, NSF, NIST, OSTP, and OMB. A principal responsibility of the SSG is to define, coordinate, and recommend strategic Federal R&D objectives in cybersecurity, and to communicate research needs and proposed budget priorities to policy makers and budget officials, including recommendations to OSTP, OMB, and the Joint Inter-Agency Cyber Task Force (JIACTF).
Activities
| December 2010: |
The SSG presents Federal cybersecurity R&D priorities and themes at the 2010 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2010) |
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| November 2010: |
The SSG presents Federal cybersecurity R&D priorities and themes, following the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (IEEE HST 2010) |
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| August 2009: |
The SSG directs the National Cyber Leap Year Summit an unconventional exploration of five fundamentally game-changing concepts in cybersecurity |
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| FY 2009: |
The SSG initiates the National Cyber Leap Year, a public-private examination of prospective cybersecurity game-change ideas |
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| Spring 2008: |
In response to the CNCI, NITRD establishes the CSIA R&D SSG. The SSG begins formulating strategy for Leap-Ahead R&D in cybersecurity |
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Cyber Security and Information Assurance Interagency Working Group (CSIA IWG)
