Science of Security: Historical Perspective

Fred B. Schneider is Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.  He joined Cornell's faculty in Fall 1978, having completed a Ph.D. at Stony Brook University and a B.S. in Engineering at Cornell in 1975.  Schneider currently also serves as the Chief Scientist for the NSF-funded TRUST Science and Technology Center. Schneider was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the Association of Computing Machinery (1995), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2008).

Science of Cyber Security: Modeling, Composition, and Measurement

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Andre Scedrov received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Professor of Mathematics and a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His contributions are in logic, programming language semantics, and most recently, in information assurance. He has written over 90 research articles and several books. Prof. Scedrov has led two projects under the Critical Infrastructure Protection and High Confidence, Adaptable Software University Research Initiative.

ARL Science of CyberSecurity: Needs and Approach

Rob Erbacher is a computer scientist performing computer security research at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD. At ARL Dr. Erbacher is cooperative agreement manager (CAM) for the Science for Cyber cooperative agreement. Before joining ARL he was a senior principal scientist with the Northwest Security Institute (NWSI), a non-profit research organization based in Redmond, WA. Prior to joining NWSI, Dr. Erbacher was faculty in the Department of Computer Science Department at Utah State University.  Dr.

What If We Got A “Do-Over?”

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Howard Shrobe joined DARPA as a Program Manager in 2012. His research Nathan and development interests relate to Cyber Resilience, Computer Architectures, Software Technologies and Artificial Intelligence with his initial focus being on new computer system architectures for secure and resilient computing. Dr. Shrobe joined DARPA from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, with which he has been affiliated since, 1978, and for which he served as Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1997 to 1998.

Frontier: Beyond Technical Security:

Jeremy Epstein is Program Director for the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.  He's on loan to NSF from SRI International, where his research areas are voting systems security and software assurance, and where he also supported the DHS Science & Technology Directorate's research program.  Over his 25 years working in information security, Jeremy has been a researcher, consultant, product developer, activist, and gadfly.  He holds an M.S.

Cyber Trust and Suspicion

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Eunice Santos works in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences. She is the Founding Director of the Institute of Defense & Security. She also served as Chair of Computer Science. She joined the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 after serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the US Department of Defense’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy.

NSA Science Paper Competition

NSA Science Paper Competition

In order to encourage the development of the scientific foundations of cybersecurity, the National Security Agency (NSA) established an award for the best scientific cybersecurity paper.  NSA invites nominations of papers published in fiscal year 2012 (Oct.1,2011 - Sept. 30, 2012) that show an outstanding contribution to cybersecurity science. 

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