2. Patricia A. Muoio Chief National Information Assurance Research Lab

3. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Inducing Change Accelerating Transition to Practice Developing Scientific Foundations Maximizing Research Impact

4. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Inducing Change It’s about trustworthiness of digital infrastructure 1.Security, reliability, resiliency, privacy, usability 2.How can we: Enable risk-aware safe operations in compromised environments Minimize critical system risk while increasing adversaries’ costs and exposure Support informed trust decisions, necessitating flexible security strategies, and allowing for effective risk/benefit analyses and implementations Strong commitment to focus on game-changing technologies for coordinated cybersecurity R&D agenda

5. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Coordination Through Themes 1.established through robust community discussion of what matters 2.recognizes that independent thinking is vital to good research 3.provides shared vision of desired end state 4.enables focusing of efforts 5.avoids definitional issues 6.avoids information sharing obstacles caused by varying classification levels 7.results in coordinated activities, not a normalized inventory 8.provides an organizing overlay on existing topic taxonomies

6. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Current Themes Tailored trustworthy spaces 1. Supporting context specific trust decisions Moving target 1.Providing resilience through agility Cyber economics 1. Providing incentives to good security Design for Assurance 1. Security engineering, practical verification, system architecture, usability NEW

7. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Ongoing Planning Process Annually re-examine themes 1.Enrich with new concepts 2.Provide further definition or decomposition

8. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Accelerating Transition to Practice 1.Focusing efforts to ensure adoption and implementation of the powerful new technologies and strategies that emerge from the research themes 2. Activities to build a scientific foundation so as to create measurable improvements in the cybersecurity landscape.

9. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Accelerating Transition to Practice 1.Technology discovery 2.Test and evaluation 3.Transition, adoption, commercialization

10. Patricia A. Muoio Chief, National Information Assurance Research Lab Developing Scientific Foundations Developing an organized, cohesive scientific foundation to the body of knowledge that informs the field of cybersecurity 1.systematic, rigorous, and disciplined scientific approach that promotes the discovery of laws 2.hypothesis testing and repeatable experimental designs 3.standardized data-gathering methods and metrics 4.critical analysis that engenders reproducible results and rationally based conclusions Fosters more rapid invention