NSF Cybersecurity Funding Opportunities

Anita NikolichNational Science FoundationProgram Director, Advanced

CyberinfrastructureSeptember 2015

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Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

Activities that impact the security of science, engineering and education environments

Target community is operational infrastructure

FY15 $11M/13 awards. FY16 $ TBD. FY15 Areas:

Cybersecurity Center of Excellence ($5M award)

Secure Data Provenance ($500K awards)Secure Architecture Design ($500K awards)

FY16 Areas TBD. Anticipated due date Feb 2016. Look for it in December 2015

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Transition to Practice (TTP)

Supports later stage activities in the research and development lifecycle such as prototyping and experimental deployment Review Criteria:

Impact on deployed environment Value in terms of needed capability and potential impact

across the NSF community Feasibility, utility, and interoperability in operation Project plan including goals, milestones, demonstration

and evaluation Tangible metrics to evaluate effectiveness of capabilities

developed

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What’s an Example of TTP or CICI Project?

Bro IDS ShellOS Malware Detection – UNC-Chapel Hill

deploys in production. More accurate and useful than expensive legacy appliances.

Mini Science DMZ for Scientific Instruments – NEW!

Shared Intelligence Platform for Protecting our National Cyberinfrastructure – NEW!

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Why Should CC*DNI PI’s Care?

Hundreds of promising research and operations ideas in this community – get NSF funding to develop your idea and try it out on a small or large scale

Possibility of additional funding from other agencies!

Early adopters of prototypes accept some risk but can get NSF funding to do so and give feedback to PI’s

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How Can NSF Help?

Tell me your biggest security challenge – lack of tools? Lack of people? Lack of time to think about security?

Talk to me this weekor email me:

anikolic@nsf.gov