CNCI

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CNCI from the top

• Susan Alexander
• CTO for Information and Identity Assurance
• OSD

Email Susan.Alexander_at_osd.mil
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Motivators

• Americas dependence on cyber infrastructure for
  social, economic and physical security
• Vulnerability of infrastructure to asymmetric
  attack
• Lack of a coordinated, national-level plan to do
  anything about this

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Init 9 - Leap-ahead workshop

• August 30-31, Rosslyn
• Tap extant efforts with academia
• NCDI
• Natl Research Council
• Industry
• Intel, Microsoft, Mitre, et al
• Govt
• NSF, IARPA, DARPA, NSA/NIARL, OSTP, NIST, DDRE,
  DHS, ASD(NII), JCS

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CyberNation a game we must winLeap-ahead
strategy

• Morph the gameboard - ever-changing terrain
• Resilient networks/systems adaptive defense
• Change the rules - protocols that favor us
• Accountable flows anonymity and attribution
• Up the Stakes - increase risk for the adversary
• Armed data network mines
• Build it right - no hidden vulnerabilities
• Secure systems engineering
• Deploy it fast - faster than the adversary
• Secure systems assembly