EAGER: Creating a TTP Ecosystem Discovery and Support Resource for Cybersecurity Technology Transfer to Practice

2011年联邦网络安全研究与发展计划将“加速向实践过渡（TTP）”列为网络安全和信息保障（CSIA）计划组成部分领域的五个战略目标之一。TTP仍然是包括NSF在内的资助网络安全研究的机构的战略目标。然而，NSF的网络安全投资组合只包含少量已过渡到业务活动的安全研究。白宫的科学技术政策办公室（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善”的研究。尽管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，但只有很低比例的研究人员利用这个机会。EAGER将作为网络安全主要研究者（PI）的外展工具，告知他们参与TTP的优势，并指导他们传统研究提案和以TTP为重点的提案之间的差异。PI将在三个PI会议上为NSF计划举办研讨会-网络基础设施的网络安全创新（CICI），校园网络基础设施（CC*）和安全可信的网络空间（SaTC）以及几个学术会议，包括USENIX安全和安全与隐私（S& P）等。NSF赞助了两个研讨会，将主要利益相关者聚集在一起，就如何改进TTP过程提供见解，并鼓励更多的TTP提交。该讲习班的一项重要成果是查明了阻碍TTP的具体障碍。为了保持这些研讨会的势头，该后续项目确定了PI在考虑如何解决TTP时可以克服这些障碍的具体方法。该项目为PI编写更有针对性的提案建立了研讨会，并为PI提供了与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的手中。预期的结果是，NSF通过在近期到中期产生更多的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". Although NSF encourages security researchers with promising applied research projects to submit TTP (Transition to Practice) projects, a very low percentage of researchers take advantage of this opportunity. This EAGER will serve as an outreach vehicle to cybersecurity Principal Investigators (PIs), informing them of the advantages of engaging in a TTP and instructing them on the differences between a traditional research proposal and a TTP-focused one. The PI's will conduct workshops at three PI meetings for NSF programs - Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI), Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) as well as at several academic conferences, including USENIX Security and Security and Privacy (S&P) among others.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 submissions. An important outcome of that workshop was the identification of specific barriers to TTP. In order to keep momentum going from these workshops, this follow-on project identifies specific ways in which PI's can overcome these barriers as they consider how to address TTP. The project establishes workshops for PI's to write more focused proposals, and provides opportunities for the PI's 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.