Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Part I Setting the Stage; 4 1 Introduction; 5 2 What Is at Stake?; 6 3 Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity Posture; 7 Part II An Illustrative Research Agenda; 8 4 Category 1 - Blocking and Limiting the Impact of Compromise; 9 5 Category 2 - Enabling Accountability; 10 6 Category 3 - Promoting Deployment; 11 7 Category 4 - Deterring Would-Be Attackers and Penalizing Attackers; 12 8 Category 5 - Illustrative Crosscutting Problem-Focused Research Areas; 13 9 Category 6 - Speculative Research; 14 Part III Conclusion; 15 10 Looking to the Future; 16 Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographies; 17 Appendix B Cybersecurity Reports and Policy: The Recent Past; 18 Appendix C Contributors to the Study

About the Author

Seymour E. Goodman and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, National Research Council