The Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group (IWG) coordinates Federal R&D to protect information and information systems from cyber threats. This R&D supports the security and safety of U.S. information systems that underpin a vast array of capabilities and technologies in many sectors, including power generation, transportation, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and national security. The CSIA IWG reports investments to the Cyber Security and Privacy (CSP) Program Component Area.
Overview
The CSIA Interagency Working Group (IWG) was created in 2006 to coordinate Federal cybersecurity R&D across 16 participating agencies and support their research activities to protect U.S. information and information systems from cyber threats. Guided by the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and aligned with NIST’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, the IWG focuses on the safety and security of systems that underpin a vast array of capabilities and technologies in multiple sectors, including power generation, transportation, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and national security.
Strategic Priorities
- Deter: The ability to efficiently discourage malicious cyber activities by increasing the costs, risks, and uncertainty to adversaries and diminishing their spoils.
- Protect: The ability of components, systems, users, and critical infrastructure to efficiently resist malicious cyber activities and to ensure confidentiality, integrity, availability, and accountability.
- Detect: The ability to efficiently detect, and even anticipate, adversary decisions and activities, given that systems should be assumed to be vulnerable to malicious cyber activities.
- Respond: When malicious cyber activity is detected, the ability of defenses, defenders, and infrastructure to dynamically react, adapt, counter, recover, maintain operations, complete restoration, and prevent repeat attacks.
Co-Chairs
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Jeremy Epstein Deputy Division Director Computer and Network Systems (CISE/CNS) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
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Matthew Scholl Division Chief Computer Security, Information Technology Lab (ITL) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
Current Activities
- Helping to develop the 5G R&D Implementation Plan in response to the Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2020.
Recent Publications
- FY2021 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap. CSIA IWG, NITRD Subcommittee, NSTC. August 14, 2020.
- Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Challenges: Technical Workshop Summary Report. NITRD Subcommittee, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Subcommittee; National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). March 2020.
- Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. CSIA IWG, NITRD Subcommittee, NSTC. December 2019.
- FY2020 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap. CSIA IWG, NITRD Subcommittee, NSTC. September 2019.
- FY2019 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan Implementation Roadmap. CSIA IWG, NITRD, NSTC. August 2018.
Resources and References
- Federal Register Notice: 88 FR 10552, “Request for Information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan”, February 21, 2023. Public Responses March 14, 2023.
- National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America, The White House, September 2018.
- Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan, NITRD, NSTC, February 2016.
- Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program, The White House, NSTC, December 2011.
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