Security News > 2010 > December > Secrecy News -- 12/14/10 - JASON: SCIENCE OF CYBER SECURITY NEEDS MORE WORK

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:15:22 -0500 From: Steven Aftergood Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/14/10 (alt list) SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2010, Issue No. 99 December 14, 2010 Support the FAS Project on Government Secrecy with a donation: http://www.fas.org/member/donate_today.html ** JASON: SCIENCE OF CYBER SECURITY NEEDS MORE WORK JASON: SCIENCE OF CYBER SECURITY NEEDS MORE WORK "Cyber security is now critical to our survival but as a field of research [it] does not have a firm scientific basis," according to the Department of Defense. "Our current security approaches have had limited success and have become an arms race with our adversaries. In order to achieve security breakthroughs we need a more fundamental understanding of the science of cyber security." To help advance that understanding, the DoD turned to the JASON defense advisory panel, which has just produced a new report on the subject. "There is a science of cyber security," the JASONs said, but it "seems underdeveloped in reporting experimental results, and consequently in the ability to use them." The JASON report began by noting that "A science of cyber security has to deal with a combination of peculiar features that are shared by no other area of study." [...] A copy of the new JASON report was obtained by Secrecy News. See "Science of Cyber-Security," November 2010. http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/cyber.pdf _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The Secrecy News Blog is at: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, go to: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/subscribe.html To UNSUBSCRIBE, go to http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/unsubscribe.html OR email your request to saftergood () fas org Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html Support the FAS Project on Government Secrecy with a donation: http://www.fas.org/member/donate_today.html _______________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood (at) fas.org voice: (202) 454-4691 ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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