Fairfax, Virginia—September 22, 2009 The National Cyber Leap Year Summit Co-Chairs Report and Summit Participants’ Ideas Report are now available and may be downloaded at www.QinetiQ-NA.com:
- National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 Co-Chairs Report: download
- National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 Participants’ Ideas Report: download
In response to the President’s call to secure our nation’s cyber infrastructure, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program developed the Leap-Ahead Initiative with the goal of developing the national cyber security leap-ahead research and development agenda.
Between August 17th and 19th of this year, the NITRD Program, with guidance from OSTP and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and Information Integration, held a National Cyber Leap Year Summit in Arlington, Virginia. The Summit gathered commercial and academic innovators for an unconventional exploration of five game-changing strategies in cyber security:
- Basing trust decisions on verified assertions (Digital Provenance)
- Attacks only work once if at all (Moving-target Defense)
- Knowing when we have been had (Hardware-enabled Trust)
- Move from forensics to real-time diagnosis (Nature-inspired Cyber Health)
- Crime does not pay (Cyber Economics)
Participants discussed how to initiate and sustain fundamental cyber security changes within those five strategies. The Summit’s outcomes are provided as input to the Administration’s cyber security R&D agenda and as strategies for public-private actions to secure the Nation’s digital future. More information can be obtained at: http://www.nitrd.gov.
QinetiQ North America managed the summit on behalf of the NITRD Program.
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For more information:
John Petrik
QinetiQ North America
Mission Solutions Group
703-852-2995
John.Petrik@QinetiQ-NA.com