Cyber Trust

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Cyber Trust: People depend on computers and communication, ranging from the networks for electronic mail, to systems that monitor the nation’s critical infrastructure, to embedded RFID devices for tracking in transportation systems. These systems are expected to work and work as intended without placing people at needless risks. Unfortunately, vulnerabilities still exist that allow attackers to corrupt or commandeer systems, including those that provide support for critical societal infrastructure. Moreover, many systems are vulnerable to actions that can inhibit operation, corrupt valuable data or expose private information. In fact, the news is replete with stories of vulnerabilities that were exploited for ill. Future advances in computing promise substantial benefits for society and individuals; yet, unless trust in computing and communications can be assured, these benefits are at risk.The NSF Cyber Trust (CT) program promotes a vision of a society where trust enables technologies to support individual and societal needs without violating confidences and exacerbating public risks. It is a vision of cyber space that is supportive of our basic principles of fairness and safe information access. The goal of the NSF CT program is to develop new insights and fundamental scientific principles that lead to software and hardware technologies on which people can justifiably rely.To achieve the CT vision and simultaneously improve the Nation’s cybersecurity posture, CT will support a portfolio of projects that: Contribute to the cybersecurity knowledge base, strengthen the foundations of cyber trust, and advance cybersecurity technologies; Define cyber trust broadly to include security, privacy, dependability, reliability, and usability; Address trustworthiness at all levels of system design, implementation, and use; Begin to integrate the technology produced by the research community, for example through novel security architectures; Consider social, economic, organizational and legal factors influencing cybersecurity; Validate theory through analysis, formal verification, experimentation and rigorous measurement; Explore innovative new concepts anticipating advances in technology and society; Encourage international collaborations; and, Educate and train a diverse workforce in cybersecurity and software technologies.Proposals funded will cover a broad range of disciplines contributing to the CT vision. Four types of CT projects will be supported, as defined below. Exploratory Research projects typically explore new and untested ideas, have budgets of up to $200,000 total, and have durations of up to 2 years; Single Investigator and Small Group projects typically involve 1-2 PIs and their students, have budgets of up to $500,000 total, and have durations of up to 3 years; Medium projects demonstrate an active collaboration that brings together 2 or more PIs with complementary expertise to explore a common research problem, have budgets of up to $1,500,000 total, and have durations of up to 3 years; and, Large projects must focus on achieving a common goal or set of goals, articulate an effective collaboration and management plan, have budgets of up to $3,000,000 total, and have durations of up to 3 years.