[IP] 3 new National Academies reports - on cybersecurity, dependable systems, and privacy

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Eisenberg, Jon" <JEisenbe@nas.edu>
Date: July 6, 2007 1:08:49 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: 3 new National Academies reports - on cybersecurity,  
dependable systems, and privacy

Dave--IPers may be interested in the following three reports that have
recently been released by CSTB:

* Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace, which examines the
vulnerabilities of the Internet, offers a strategy for future research
aimed at countering cyber attacks, and lays out a broad research agenda
that includes traditional, problem-specific studies as well as
unconventional ideas is necessary to combat current and future
cybersecurity threats;
* Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence?, which discusses
the meaning of dependability in a software and systems context,
illustrates how the growing use and complexity of software necessitates
a different approach to ensuring dependability, and recommends an
evidence-based approach to achieving justifiable confidence in and
greater dependability of software; and
* Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age, which
examines how threats to privacy are evolving, ongoing information
technology trends, and how society can balance the interests of
individuals, businesses, and government in ways that promote privacy
reasonably and efficiently.

All can be viewed at www.cstb.org by following the "National Academies
Press" link and then the "Full Text" link under Read.

Thanks/Jon

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Jon Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Director
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The National Academies
jeisenbe@nas.edu
202-664-1235 (find-me-anywhere)
202-334-2605 (backup--main office)
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