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ISEF 2019 Trip Reports - NSA Research Directorate Awards
This that time of the year again. No, not Mother's Day. Yes, I have a wonderful mother that every year, I don't visit because I'm traveling for the science fair. So from Phoenix, Happy Mother's Day, Mom. Onto the trip. I'm back in Phoenix Arizona. Yay! We're back! So for the first time readers. This is the fifth (it's...
ISEF 2019 Trip Reports - NSA Research Directorate Awards
Getting Started on Science Fair Projects
What makes a great cyber science fair project? The SoS-VO has a node for that...
Getting Started on Science Fair Projects
NSA Releases Ghidra for Reverse Engineering
At RSA 2019, the National Security Agency released Ghidra as a free tool. Ghidra is a software reverse engineering tool. Plans are underway to release it as open source on GitHub. For more information visit the official site: https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ ZDnet Article on the release: https://www.zdnet....
NSA Releases Ghidra for Reverse Engineering
HotSoS 2019 Summary Report
Hot Topics in the Science of Security: Symposium and Bootcamp (HotSoS) 2019 Nashville, TN April 3, 2019 Cyberdeception, accountability, and attack surfaces among topics at HotSoS 2019 The 2019 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HoTSoS), the sixth annual event, was held April 2-3, 2019 at...
HotSoS 2019 Summary Report
Executive Order on America’s Cybersecurity Workforce
The White House released an Executive Order on America's Cybersecurity Workforce. It call this workforce a national asset. It calls for the government to enhance mobility of the workforce to move between public and private employment. It call for development of skills and that the government must recognize and reward the...
Executive Order on America’s Cybersecurity Workforce
Winners of the 2019 NSA Research Directorate Awards at ISEF 2019
Phoenix, AZ - On Thrusday Night, May 16, 2019, The National Security Agency Executive Director, Mr. Harry Coker, and NSA Researcher and Science of Security and Privacy (SoS) Technical Lead, Dr. Adam Tagert, presented the NSA Research Directorate Awards to 10 outstanding high school scientists. These students were finalists...
Winners of the 2019 NSA Research Directorate Awards at ISEF 2019
2019 National Intelligence Strategy
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy. The strategy is broad, covering what needs to be done in the 17 IC elements, Cyber is an important part. Its major area 4. Cyber threats are already challenging public confidence in our global institutions,...
2019 National Intelligence Strategy
NIST Release Special Pub on CPS and IoT
NIST released Special Publication 1900-202 on Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things. This document focuses on the meanings of the phrases "cyber-physical systems" (CPS) and "Internet of Things" (IoT), and on the relationship between them. The purpose is to promote a unified measurement science and standards...
NIST Release Special Pub on CPS and IoT





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  • SoK: Science, Security, and the Elusive Goal of Security as a Scientific Pursuit
    Abstract: Abstract--The past ten years has seen increasing calls to make security research more "scientific". On the surface, most agree that this is desirable, given universal recognition of "science" as a positive force. However, we find that there is little clarity on what "scientific" means in the... more
  • The Security Risks of Power Measurements in Multicores
    Abstract: Two of the main goals of power management in modern multicore processors are reducing the average power dissipation and delivering the maximum performance up to the physical limits of the system, when demanded. To achieve these goals, hardware manufacturers and operating system providers include... more
  • Cloud Strife: Mitigating the Security Risks of Domain-Validated Certificates
    Abstract: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), more generally the "cloud," changed the landscape of system operations on the Internet. Clouds' elasticity allow operators to rapidly allocate and use resources as needed, from virtual machines, to storage, to IP addresses, which is what made... more
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Study of Security Decisions in a Cyber-Physical Systems Game
    Abstract: Motivation: The security of any system is a direct consequence of stakeholders' decisions regarding security requirements. Such decisions are taken with varying degrees of expertise, and little is currently understood about how various demographics - security experts, general computer... more
  • Risk-Based Design Security Analysis
    Abstract: Implementing security by design in practice often involves the application of threat modeling to elicit security threats and to aid designers in focusing efforts on the most stringent problems first. Existing threat modeling methodologies are capable of generating lots of threats, yet they lack... more
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