EAGER: Cybersecurity Transition To Practice (TTP) Acceleration

2011年联邦网络安全研究与发展计划将“加速向实践过渡（TTP）”作为网络安全和信息保障（CSIA）项目组成领域的五大战略目标之一。TTP仍然是资助网络安全研究的机构的战略目标，包括国家科学基金会。然而，美国国家科学基金会的网络安全投资组合仅包含少量已转化为业务活动的安全研究。白宫科技政策办公室（OSTP）将向实践的过渡定义为“在网络安全领域创造可衡量的改进”的研究。NSF鼓励有前途的应用研究项目的安全研究人员提交TTP（过渡到实践）项目，虽然一些研究人员利用了这个机会，但其他研究人员缺乏关于如何确定其技术的早期采用者的信息。早期采用是获得有关安全技术的有用性和有效性的有价值反馈的关键步骤。EAGER将作为网络安全技术采用者（如科学网络基础设施运营商和大学校园的首席信息官（cio））的外联工具，告知他们在其组织中采用尖端网络安全能力的好处，并将他们与寻找合作机会的安全研究人员进行匹配。2015年，NSF赞助了两场研讨会，将主要利益相关者聚集在一起，就如何改进TTP流程和鼓励更多TTP采用提供见解，从而改善科学网络基础设施的网络安全。该讲习班的一个重要成果是确定了tpp的具体障碍。这个后续项目确定了NSF在考虑未来如何解决TTP问题时可以克服这些障碍的具体方法。该项目为早期采用者建立研讨会，以了解需要采用者的特定网络安全项目，并提供与nsf资助的网络安全社区合作的机会，以促进网络安全研究更多地过渡到运营信息技术社区手中。预期的结果是NSF通过在近期和中期产生更多的TTP结果来扩大其资助的网络安全研究的影响，以使网络空间更安全。

The 2011 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Plan cites "Accelerating Transition to Practice (TTP)" as one of five strategic objectives in the Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Program Component Area. TTP remains a strategic objective of Agencies which fund cybersecurity research, including NSF. However, the NSF cybersecurity portfolio contains only a small amount of security research that has been transitioned into operational activities. The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the White House defines transition to practice as research that "creates measurable improvements in the cybersecurity landscape". NSF encourages security researchers with promising applied research projects to submit TTP (Transition to Practice) projects, and while some researchers take advantage of this opportunity, others lack information about how to identify an early adopter for their technology. Early adoption is a crucial step for gaining valuable feedback about the usefulness and effectiveness of a security technology. This EAGER will serve as an outreach vehicle to cybersecurity technology adopters such as scientific cyberinfrastructure operators and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) at university campuses, informing them of the benefits of adopting cutting edge cybersecurity capabilities into their organizations and matching them up with security researchers looking for partnership opportunities. In 2015, NSF sponsored two workshops which brought together key stakeholders to provide insights on how to improve the TTP process and encourage more TTP adoption, therefore improving cybersecurity for scientific cyberinfrastructure. An important outcome of that workshop was the identification of specific barriers to TTP. This follow-on project identifies specific ways in which NSF can overcome these barriers as they consider how to address TTP for the future. The project establishes workshops for early adopters to learn about specific cybersecurity projects that need adopters, and provides opportunities to engage with the NSF-funded cybersecurity community to foster more transition of cybersecurity research into the hands of the operational Information Technology Community. The expected outcome is that NSF expands the impact of the cybersecurity research it funds by producing more TTP results in the near to mid-term in order to make cyberspace safer.