Faculty and Staff
Citation
Faculty and Staff. "TRUST Annual Report 2007-2008". Technical report, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), June, 2008; Previous TRUST annual reports are also available for 2006 and 2007.
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 that 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 and is addressing fundamental scientific and technological problems and advancing the state-of-the-art in a number of areas: security and privacy issues associated with the rapidly increasing use of electronic media for the archival and access of patient medical records; web authentication, end-user privacy, next-generation browser security, malware detection, and improved system forensic techniques to combat online attacks; application defenses for network-level intrusions and attacks including compromised and malfunctioning legacy applications, viruses, worms, and spyware; incentives for research, investment, policies, and procedures for technology that enhance system security, privacy, and trustworthiness; secure embedded sensor networks for large-scale applications critical to the nation’s economy, energy, security, and health; and techniques that ensure trustworthy computing by securing hardware, improving software robustness, and increasing the survivability of critical systems.
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 and webcasts, TRUST has hosted a series of workshops on sensor networks, privacy, identity theft, and electronic medical records. A major thrust in the third year was increasing content in the TRUST Academy Online (TAO) and redesigning the TAO portal as well as the center’s Education Community Development efforts. Again, all these are reported below in the section on education.
In knowledge transfer, TRUST has continued a robust 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 cyber security and trustworthiness. TRUST also has an active set of industrial partners such as Intel, Microsoft, Sun, Telecom Italia, and United Technologies with whom we are beginning to engage in collaborations of mutual interest. More details are provided in the section on knowledge transfer.
In diversity, 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/538.html"><i>TRUST Annual Report 2007-2008</i></a>, Technical report, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), June, 2008; Previous TRUST annual reports are also available for <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html">2006</a> and <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html" >2007</a>.
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Faculty and Staff. "TRUST Annual Report 2007-2008". Technical report, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), June, 2008; Previous TRUST annual reports are also available for <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html">2006</a> and <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html" >2007</a>.
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@techreport{FacultyandStaff08_TRUSTAnnualReport20072008, author = { Faculty and Staff}, title = {TRUST Annual Report 2007-2008}, institution = {Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)}, month = {June}, year = {2008}, note = {Previous TRUST annual reports are also available for <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html">2006</a> and <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html" >2007</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. TRUST is composed of several universities that 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 dimensionsâresearch, industrial outreach and knowledge transfer, education, and diversity outreach. In research, TRUST has achieved success along several fronts and is addressing fundamental scientific and technological problems and advancing the state-of-the-art in a number of areas: security and privacy issues associated with the rapidly increasing use of electronic media for the archival and access of patient medical records; web authentication, end-user privacy, next-generation browser security, malware detection, and improved system forensic techniques to combat online attacks; application defenses for network-level intrusions and attacks including compromised and malfunctioning legacy applications, viruses, worms, and spyware; incentives for research, investment, policies, and procedures for technology that enhance system security, privacy, and trustworthiness; secure embedded sensor networks for large-scale applications critical to the nationâs economy, energy, security, and health; and techniques that ensure trustworthy computing by securing hardware, improving software robustness, and increasing the survivability of critical systems. 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 and webcasts, TRUST has hosted a series of workshops on sensor networks, privacy, identity theft, and electronic medical records. A major thrust in the third year was increasing content in the TRUST Academy Online (TAO) and redesigning the TAO portal as well as the centerâs Education Community Development efforts. Again, all these are reported below in the section on education. In knowledge transfer, TRUST has continued a robust 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 cyber security and trustworthiness. TRUST also has an active set of industrial partners such as Intel, Microsoft, Sun, Telecom Italia, and United Technologies with whom we are beginning to engage in collaborations of mutual interest. More details are provided in the section on knowledge transfer. In diversity, 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.}, URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/538.html} }
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