Team for Research in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology

TRUST Annual Report 2006-2007
Faculty and Staff

Citation
Faculty and Staff. "TRUST Annual Report 2006-2007". Technical report, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center., January, 2007; The previous annual report is also available.

Abstract
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security Technology (TRUST) was created in response to a growing sense of urgency in dealing with all aspects of cybersecurity as it affects society. First, the role and penetration of computing systems and networks in our societal infrastructure continues to grow, and their importance to societal safety and the security has never been greater. Beyond mere connection to the internet and access to global resources, information systems are now used for controlling critical infrastructures for electricity, healthcare, finance, and medical networks. Second, and somewhat contradictorily, many such control systems remain untrustworthy. Waves of viruses and worms sweep the Internet and exhibit increasing virulence and rate of speed that is also directly proportional to their growing ease of deployment. Privacy remains poorly understood and poorly supported; security is generally inadequate, and some speak of a “market failure” in the domain. Broader issues of software usability, reliability and correctness remain challenging. Industry stakeholders are unable to recruit new employees adequately trained in these technologies. Society is placing computers into critical roles, although they do not meet the requirements of trust.

TRUST is composed of several universities—Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, San Jose State, Stanford and Vanderbilt—which have joined forces to organize a multifaceted response. TRUST represents the strongest and most diverse engagement of the issue of trusted systems ever assembled. TRUST is the first to recognize the breadth of the problem and to combine fundamental science with a broader multidisciplinary focus on economic, social and legal considerations and a substantial educational mission. TRUST will enable dialog with stakeholders whose needs simply cannot be approached in a narrower and purely technical manner, or by any single research group. TRUST seeks to be an intermediary between the policy makers and society at large on the one hand, and the researchers, academics, and industrial providers of services and technology on the other.

TRUST seeks to achieve its mission through research as well as a global policy for engaging in education of society as a whole. This annual report of TRUST details the experience of the center along many dimensions—research, industrial outreach and knowledge transfer, education, and diversity outreach.

In research, TRUST has achieved success along several fronts—in model-based integration of trusted components and co-design of networked embedded systems, in the creation of new software tools for monitoring and controlling large sensor infrastructures, creation of integrative testbeds for critical infrastructures, in understanding privacy and other legal issues surrounding identity theft, and designing tools for anti-phishing technology, etc. All these are reported in detail in the research thrusts area of this report.

In education, TRUST is leveraging an existing learning technology infrastructure to quickly enable TRUST courseware and material to be assembled, deposited in a repository, and adapted for wide web-based content dissemination. In addition to developing special courses for undergraduate and graduate curricula, and regular seminars in all campuses as well as webcasts, TRUST has hosted a series of workshops on sensor networks, privacy, identity theft, electronic medical records. The major thrust in the second year was the TRUST Academy Online (TAO) and the Education Community Development efforts. Again, all these are reported in the education section.

In knowledge transfer, TRUST has begun an aggressive program of technology transition with industry (from bug reports of open source software to tools such as Spoofguard and various consulting activities) and active engagement with governmental agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Energy (DoE) which are all concerned with issues of security. Also, TRUST has a large and growing set of industrial partners such as Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and United Technologies with whom we are beginning to engage in collaborations of mutual interest. For example, one such partner, Telecom-Italia, will harvest the incipient technology that comes out of TRUST in the healthcare sector to better understand and build upon its own base.

TRUST has an ambitious goal of reaching a diversity goal of 30% of women in its faculty and students, and 10% of researchers from underrepresented communities, and has been proactive in this regard. Several activities for enhancing diversity are reported in the corresponding section.

Overall, we are happy to report that the center is making excellent progress towards its goals, its participants are actively engaged, and the outlook is positive.

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    Faculty and Staff. <a
href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html"><i>TRUST
Annual Report 2006-2007</i></a>, Technical
report,  Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology
(TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center., January,
2007; The previous annual report is also <a
href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html"
>available</a>.
  • Plain text 
    Faculty and Staff. "TRUST Annual Report
2006-2007". Technical report,  Team for Research in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), an NSF Science and
Technology Center., January, 2007; The previous annual
report is also <a
href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html"
>available</a>.
  • BibTeX 
    @techreport{FacultyStaff07_TRUSTAnnualReport20062007,
    author = {Faculty and Staff},
    title = {TRUST Annual Report 2006-2007},
    institution = {Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology
              (TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center.},
    month = {January},
    year = {2007},
    note = {The previous annual report is also <a
              href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html"
              >available</a>.},
    abstract = {The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security
              Technology (TRUST) was created in response to a
              growing sense of urgency in dealing with all
              aspects of cybersecurity as it affects society.
              First, the role and penetration of computing
              systems and networks in our societal
              infrastructure continues to grow, and their
              importance to societal safety and the security has
              never been greater. Beyond mere connection to the
              internet and access to global resources,
              information systems are now used for controlling
              critical infrastructures for electricity,
              healthcare, finance, and medical networks. Second,
              and somewhat contradictorily, many such control
              systems remain untrustworthy. Waves of viruses and
              worms sweep the Internet and exhibit increasing
              virulence and rate of speed that is also directly
              proportional to their growing ease of deployment.
              Privacy remains poorly understood and poorly
              supported; security is generally inadequate, and
              some speak of a âmarket failureâ in the
              domain. Broader issues of software usability,
              reliability and correctness remain challenging.
              Industry stakeholders are unable to recruit new
              employees adequately trained in these
              technologies. Society is placing computers into
              critical roles, although they do not meet the
              requirements of trust. <p>TRUST is composed of
              several universitiesâBerkeley, Carnegie Mellon,
              Cornell, San Jose State, Stanford and
              Vanderbiltâwhich have joined forces to organize
              a multifaceted response. TRUST represents the
              strongest and most diverse engagement of the issue
              of trusted systems ever assembled. TRUST is the
              first to recognize the breadth of the problem and
              to combine fundamental science with a broader
              multidisciplinary focus on economic, social and
              legal considerations and a substantial educational
              mission. TRUST will enable dialog with
              stakeholders whose needs simply cannot be
              approached in a narrower and purely technical
              manner, or by any single research group. TRUST
              seeks to be an intermediary between the policy
              makers and society at large on the one hand, and
              the researchers, academics, and industrial
              providers of services and technology on the other.
              <p>TRUST seeks to achieve its mission through
              research as well as a global policy for engaging
              in education of society as a whole. This annual
              report of TRUST details the experience of the
              center along many dimensionsâresearch,
              industrial outreach and knowledge transfer,
              education, and diversity outreach. <p>In research,
              TRUST has achieved success along several
              frontsâin model-based integration of trusted
              components and co-design of networked embedded
              systems, in the creation of new software tools for
              monitoring and controlling large sensor
              infrastructures, creation of integrative testbeds
              for critical infrastructures, in understanding
              privacy and other legal issues surrounding
              identity theft, and designing tools for
              anti-phishing technology, etc. All these are
              reported in detail in the research thrusts area of
              this report. <p>In education, TRUST is leveraging
              an existing learning technology infrastructure to
              quickly enable TRUST courseware and material to be
              assembled, deposited in a repository, and adapted
              for wide web-based content dissemination. In
              addition to developing special courses for
              undergraduate and graduate curricula, and regular
              seminars in all campuses as well as webcasts,
              TRUST has hosted a series of workshops on sensor
              networks, privacy, identity theft, electronic
              medical records. The major thrust in the second
              year was the TRUST Academy Online (TAO) and the
              Education Community Development efforts. Again,
              all these are reported in the education section.
              <p>In knowledge transfer, TRUST has begun an
              aggressive program of technology transition with
              industry (from bug reports of open source software
              to tools such as Spoofguard and various consulting
              activities) and active engagement with
              governmental agencies such as the Department of
              Homeland Security (DHS), the Air Force Office of
              Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Department of
              Defense (DoD), and the Department of Energy (DoE)
              which are all concerned with issues of security.
              Also, TRUST has a large and growing set of
              industrial partners such as Intel, Microsoft, Sun,
              and United Technologies with whom we are beginning
              to engage in collaborations of mutual interest.
              For example, one such partner, Telecom-Italia,
              will harvest the incipient technology that comes
              out of TRUST in the healthcare sector to better
              understand and build upon its own base. <p>TRUST
              has an ambitious goal of reaching a diversity goal
              of 30% of women in its faculty and students, and
              10% of researchers from underrepresented
              communities, and has been proactive in this
              regard. Several activities for enhancing diversity
              are reported in the corresponding section.
              <p>Overall, we are happy to report that the center
              is making excellent progress towards its goals,
              its participants are actively engaged, and the
              outlook is positive.},
    URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html}
}

Posted by Christopher Brooks on 5 Jun 2007.
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