Call for Proposals: Cyber Security Research

10/27/2009
 

The Cyber-Security Research Roundtable, a two-year interdisciplinary, collaborative research roundtable on cybersecurity jointly funded by IUP’s John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security and the University of Pittsburgh’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for

International Security Studies and the Center for National Preparedness is seeking proposals for research on the licit and illicit use of the cyberecosystem for illicit purposes.

The roundtable is a group of technical, policy, national security, and regional scholars from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University, CERT/CMU’s Software Engineering Institute, the Pittsburgh chapter of the World Affairs Council, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as recognized experts working in the private sector, searching for a response to mitigate terrorists' (and other organizations’) use of the Internet to recruit, solicit funds, plan logistics, and effect command and control eventually leading to a strategy for responding to any organization's illicit Internet activities.

The research has resulted in a model depicting the commonalities of a target and its different organizational threats as the basis for areas of ntervention by the target to reduce its risks. The attached call for proposals is intended to further this search for commonalities across the universe of organizations that use the internet for illicit purposes to threaten other entities, particularly the United States. See the attached Call for Proposals PDF for details of the competition, deadlines for proposals and completed research, and monetary awards to support the research.

Click here for “Call for Proposals Competition” details.