The Department of Homeland Security published a report on A Roadmap for Cybersecurity Research, I was definitely impressed!

All the themes, which are important to me are in their list :

  1. Scalable trustworthy systems (including system architectures and requisite development methodology)
  2. Enterprise-level metrics (including measures of overall system trustworthiness)
  3. System evaluation life cycle (including approaches for sufficient assurance)
  4. Combating insider threats
  5. Combating malware and botnets
  6. Global-scale identity management
  7. Survivability of time-critical systems
  8. Situational understanding and attack attribution
  9. Provenance (relating to information, systems, and hardware)
  10. Privacy-aware security
  11. Usable security

It is great to see that this goes in the right direction! The key will be, when the research will deliver results.

Roger