Abstract
Thirty years ago the field of computer security was largely limited to operating systems security and network security, with cryptography a closely related topic but not integral to the field. Now, it’s far broader, covering not only technical topics, but also a broad range of related areas including many social science areas and usable security. In this talk, I’ll give some examples of how social science affects the technical aspects of cybersecurity research, and how the two aspects need to work together going forward. I’ll also describe how NSF funding is helping to move these fields together.
Bio
Jeremy Epstein is lead program officer for the National Science Foundation’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, NSF’s flagship program for cybersecurity research. The SaTC program is the largest unclassified cybersecurity research program in the world, with over $75 million in annual funding and over 650 active research awards, covering the full scope of cybersecurity including social sciences, cryptography, software security, usable security, network security, cyber physical systems security, formal methods, and much more. Jeremy is on loan to NSF from SRI International, where his research areas include voting system security and software assurance. He’s associate editor in chief of IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, and founder of the ACSA Scholarships for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) program. Jeremy has an MS from Purdue University in Computer Sciences, and is ABD from George Mason University in Information Technology.