Forum on Cyber Resilience
The Forum on Cyber Resilience serves as an independent, trusted venue in which experts from industry, academia, and government can work collaboratively to explore emerging critical challenges related to the security, trustworthiness, and resilience of the nation's computing, communications systems, and critical infrastructures. Blending expertise in technology, policy, national security, and the law, the Forum convenes senior representatives and serves both as a readily available source of insight and expertise and as a body committed to anticipating and thinking about future trends. Forum activities inform stakeholders through convenings, dialogues, and published workshop summaries and through engagements with consensus study committees.
In progress
Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date.
Description
The Forum on Cyber Resilience would facilitate and enhance the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with urgent and important issues related to the resilience of the nation’s computing and communications systems, including the Internet, various critical infrastructures, commercial systems, and so on. Resilience is meant to encompass not only security in the face of attacks, resistance to degradation, and the ability to recover from adverse events but also the capacity for innovation and adaptation and the ability to absorb rapid technological disruption in a way that reflects the values--such as privacy--and needs of the infrastructure’s many stakeholders. The focus of the Forum is accordingly expected to be two-pronged: traditional notions of cybersecurity, trustworthiness, and reliability of large-scale systems blended with considerations of the need to afford opportunities for innovation and respect for stakeholder values, needs, and priorities.
The Forum will hold meetings to engage in dialogue and discussion with the following goals:
- Improve cyber resilience and the strength and vitality of our information and communications infrastructure;
- Facilitate and enhance the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with urgent and important issues related to cyber resilience and sustaining a vibrant and effective information and communications infrastructure; and
- Identify and engage the key challenges and opportunities for achieving greater cyber resilience and a more robust information and communications infrastructure that maintains room for continued innovation and reflects the values and needs of its many, diverse stakeholders.
All activities of the Forum will be conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines described in "Roundtables: Policy and Procedures."
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Kathleen Fisher
Ex Officio Member
William B. Martin
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Kevin Stine
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Sponsors
Department of Defense
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Science Foundation
Staff
Shenae Bradley
