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Join Our Research Efforts in CCAA to Improve Cybersecurity Robustness,

Resiliency and Management in Enterprises

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Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation (CCAA)

Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation - An NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center

Background

• In May 2013, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established CCAA– NSF Industry / University* Center for Configuration

Analytics and Automation (CCAA)

*See information about this and other NSF national I/UCRC research efforts at http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc/

http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc/


NSF I/UCRC Research Consortium Model

• Join the CCAA Consortium as members

• Help define and guide the multi-university research projects

• Share in the intellectual property developed

• Establish CCAA research center

• Propose research projects

• Direct and manage research and develop manpower

• Provide administrative funding for CCAA universities

• Provide independent evaluation of research efforts

Industry and Government Organizations

Universities

NSF

RESEARCH

INNOVATIONS


Collective Research Efforts Needed to Address the Gap Between Cyber-security Risks and Defensive Management Capabilities

Systems complexity increasing

Systems are more integrated

“Internet of Things” - moreconnectivity

Increased adversarysophistication

Bigger attack surface

More opportunity formisconfiguration

More exposure andBig Data

Better and smarterdefensive measures

required


CCAA Mission

• To build a critical mass of inter-disciplinary academic researchers and industry partnerships to undertake pre-competitive research that addresses current and future challenges of enterprise analytics and automation


Science of Security Analytics and Automations

• Analytics is to predict and measure security risks (due to external threats or local misconfigurations) under incomplete system specifications and unknown attack strategies

• Automation is to dynamically adapt security controls and configurations to minimize risk (attack potential & consequences)


Join the Current Members

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dr. Ehab Al-Shaer)– Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation– RTI International

• George Mason University (Dr. Sushil Jajodia)– MITRE– North Grumman– Office of Naval Research (ONR)


Universities Considering Becoming Part of CCAA

• Colorado State University– Approved October 2014

• Penn State University– Approved October 2014


Benefits of CCAA Membership

• Create, direct and leverage specific pre-competitive research efforts required in this field that can benefit your organization

• Influence on-going research quality and future research efforts through annual member advisory board reviews conducted twice a year

• Develop and foster new industry-to-industry and industry-to-government relationships and opportunities through interaction with industry, academic and government key players



• Gain advance knowledge of research results as they emerge

• Have access to students and researchers who may fulfill critical resource needs within member organizations

• Participate in a historically successful NSF approach that advances important capabilities needed by critical elements of societies



• Members serve on CCAA Industry Advisory Board (IAB)– Board meets twice a year to review and guide the

research projects and directions of the CCAA– Pre-publication review by members of any proposed

published research– Any intellectual property developed can be use-

license fee free to members of CCAA


Membership Requirements

• Industry and Government Organizations– Yearly minimum membership $50,000 (Government

organizations can MIPR funds directly to NSF for their CCAA membership saving administrative paperwork)

– Invoiced typically in June of CCAA’s fiscal year, which is 1 July thru 30 June


Please Consider Becoming a Member of CCAA by Partnering with Colorado State

University• Your support would be invaluable to our collective

efforts to advance needed research guided by your organization’s leadership

• Contact for additional information– Dr. Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University,

[email protected] (970) 491-7986

mailto:[email protected]

Security Research @ CSU

• Secure Software Design• Access Control and Trust Models• Secure Internet Protocols• Privacy and Anonymity• Secure Workflow and Transactions• Secure Stream Processing• Research Sponsors– AFRL, AFOSR, FAA, NIH, NIST, NSF, USDA



Current Research

• Querying over Encrypted Data• Secure Stream and Event Processing• Security in Online Social Networks• Distributed Denial of Service Detection• Personalized Security for the Home User• Insider Threat Detection• Software Requirements Acquisition

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