International Cooperation on Cyber Security
The growth of a powerful, ubiquitous, cyber infrastructure (computing facilities, communication networks, software, and other devices enabling information applications) has propelled innovation of enormous value for the national and global economy and society. The mélange of software, hardware, and digital data now comprise a critical infrastructure upon which the smooth functioning of essential sectors such as defense, banking, utilities, transportation, and health depend.
While providing dramatic societal benefits, this heady mix has also created a major and growing complex of risks for the United States, as well as many other nations around the world. IGCC and partners at UCLA, UC San Diego, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have launched several projects to further research into cyber threats.
A day-long planning meeting at LLNL in October 2010 brought together top business, government, and academic experts to frame the key issues for cooperation on cyber threats.
Cyber Security Task Force
A joint effort between IGCC, LLNL, the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego, and the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations is developing a Cyber Security Task Force to lay the groundwork for a framework for international cooperation on cyber security—an international cyber security regime.
U.S. Critical Infrastructure
IGCC, in collaboration with IR/PS and LLNL, is developing a series of working meetings involving representatives from industry, academia, and government to examine gaps in cyber defense to develop new approaches to foster increased resilience to major cyber attacks by developing and strengthening the relationships among cyber threat analysis and response leaders, organizations and communities, both formal and informal, in these sectors. Cyber disaster response will require new and robust connections between organizations and individuals focusing on cyber security in government, universities, and industry. The meetings will extend and strengthen the cyber disaster response communication network giving the United States new capacity to address a large-scale cyber attack.
Cyber Security Graduate Training
IGCC, in collaboration with UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and Computer Science, is developing an interdisciplinary graduate training program to prepare the next generation of university researchers to address critical challenges in cyber security for industry and government. The program will brings together faculty in computer science, political science, international relations, economics, public policy, and law, together with industry and government experts, to train students to examine gaps in cyber defense and develop new approaches to thwart and defeat cyber crime and attacks.
Research
