University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC 2 ) Responding to the Needs of the State, the Nation, and the Global Community Pat Prof. Michael Hicks Director www.cyber.umd.edu/
Cybersecurity Challenge Goal: Preserve enormous positive impact of the Internet 2M Youtube videos uploaded per day More in 60 days than TV networks in 60 years 140M tweets per day 107 trillion emails sent in 2010 800M active Facebook users (> 50% log in daily) Key role in Arab springs in Tunisia, Egypt Global E-commerce market heading toward $1 trillion
Cybersecurity Challenge Goal: Reverse the escalation and impact of attacks High-profile intrusions NASDAQ, RSA, Sony (3x), Google, Booz Allen Cyber attacks on countries (Estonia, Georgia) 26 chemical companies subjected to industrial espionage Norton study: $114B lost to cybercrime per year Average $7.2M lost per data breach event One event listed as costing $1B in IP lost
Why is this hard? Security is an attribute, not a discipline Goal: do X securely-- X is the important part! Requires an interdisciplinary approach Technology (what can be done) Economics (incentives for doing it) Sociology/psychology (how people will respond) Rapidly changing problem landscape
MC2 has a Strategic Location NIST NSA
MC2 has Broad Expertise College of Computer, Mathematics and Natural Sciences A. James Clark School of Engineering R. H. Smith School of Business School of Public Policy MC 2 College of Information Studies College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Government partners Academic Partners Corporate Partners
The Key Components of MC2 have International Prestige Map shows universities in the Top 20 Rank in the world in each of Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Social Sciences, Economics & Business MICHIGAN MIT BERKELEY STANFORD Univ of MARYLAND Source: www.arwu.org Academic Ranking of World Universities
UMD has Leading Centers, SCIFs close to campus INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics CLOUD COMPUTING CENTER SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER
MC2 Faculty: Leaders in Cybersecurity Education & Research Faculty Books in Cybersecurity
MC2 Cybersecurity Research Areas Software Security: Secure coding, Automatic program analysis, Enforcing privacy Cyber Threat Analysis: Criminological behaviors, sociological, threat & malware quantification Cyber Economics Cryptography Digital Forensics Cybersecurity Policy Wireless Networks: Security and information assurance; DDOS attacks; wireless sensor networks Supply Chain Security & Integrity: Logistics best practices, net-centricity management Cyber Physical Systems Visualization of Complex Networks
Noteworthy Recent News UMD Professors secure $1 Million cooperative agreement with NIST for cyber-physical systems research. will help NIST develop and deploy standards, test methods, and measurement tools to support consistently reliable performance of new smart systems Gordon and Loeb s You May Be Fighting the Wrong Security Battles, featured in Wall Street Journal Showcased a model developed by two professors to guide company executives decisions on the optimal level of investment to protect an information set
Cybersecurity Programs Master s in Computer Science with Cybersecurity concentration Professional Master s Program in Cybersecurity (Fall 2012) Cyber Supply Chain Certificate Program (Spring 2012) Summer Programs in Cybersecurity (Summer 2011) - One-week Cyber Camp program for high school students - NSF-sponsored 9-week Research Experience for Undergrads Partners include Lockheed Martin, SAIC, Google, MIT Lincoln Lab, Tenable Google-sponsored Cybersecurity Seminar series with leading speakers Active student-run Cybersecurity Club in place, with 500 members, won the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), 1 of 8 CCDC finalists in nation UMD Cybersecurity Club Questions? Contact Eric Chapman, Associate Director, echapman@umd.edu 301-405-7136
What will you do? Securing our computer infrastructure is a great problem of our time Becoming more important as time goes on A solution requires concerted effort across all of academia, government, industry Will you help us solve the hard problems?