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Faculty and Staff. "TRUST Annual Report 2006-2007". Technical report, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center., January, 2007; The previous annual report is also available.

Abstract
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security Technology (TRUST) was created in response to a growing sense of urgency in dealing with all aspects of cybersecurity as it affects society. First, the role and penetration of computing systems and networks in our societal infrastructure continues to grow, and their importance to societal safety and the security has never been greater. Beyond mere connection to the internet and access to global resources, information systems are now used for controlling critical infrastructures for electricity, healthcare, finance, and medical networks. Second, and somewhat contradictorily, many such control systems remain untrustworthy. Waves of viruses and worms sweep the Internet and exhibit increasing virulence and rate of speed that is also directly proportional to their growing ease of deployment. Privacy remains poorly understood and poorly supported; security is generally inadequate, and some speak of a “market failure” in the domain. Broader issues of software usability, reliability and correctness remain challenging. Industry stakeholders are unable to recruit new employees adequately trained in these technologies. Society is placing computers into critical roles, although they do not meet the requirements of trust.

TRUST is composed of several universities—Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, San Jose State, Stanford and Vanderbilt—which have joined forces to organize a multifaceted response. TRUST represents the strongest and most diverse engagement of the issue of trusted systems ever assembled. TRUST is the first to recognize the breadth of the problem and to combine fundamental science with a broader multidisciplinary focus on economic, social and legal considerations and a substantial educational mission. TRUST will enable dialog with stakeholders whose needs simply cannot be approached in a narrower and purely technical manner, or by any single research group. TRUST seeks to be an intermediary between the policy makers and society at large on the one hand, and the researchers, academics, and industrial providers of services and technology on the other.

TRUST seeks to achieve its mission through research as well as a global policy for engaging in education of society as a whole. This annual report of TRUST details the experience of the center along many dimensions—research, industrial outreach and knowledge transfer, education, and diversity outreach.

In research, TRUST has achieved success along several fronts—in model-based integration of trusted components and co-design of networked embedded systems, in the creation of new software tools for monitoring and controlling large sensor infrastructures, creation of integrative testbeds for critical infrastructures, in understanding privacy and other legal issues surrounding identity theft, and designing tools for anti-phishing technology, etc. All these are reported in detail in the research thrusts area of this report.

In education, TRUST is leveraging an existing learning technology infrastructure to quickly enable TRUST courseware and material to be assembled, deposited in a repository, and adapted for wide web-based content dissemination. In addition to developing special courses for undergraduate and graduate curricula, and regular seminars in all campuses as well as webcasts, TRUST has hosted a series of workshops on sensor networks, privacy, identity theft, electronic medical records. The major thrust in the second year was the TRUST Academy Online (TAO) and the Education Community Development efforts. Again, all these are reported in the education section.

In knowledge transfer, TRUST has begun an aggressive program of technology transition with industry (from bug reports of open source software to tools such as Spoofguard and various consulting activities) and active engagement with governmental agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Energy (DoE) which are all concerned with issues of security. Also, TRUST has a large and growing set of industrial partners such as Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and United Technologies with whom we are beginning to engage in collaborations of mutual interest. For example, one such partner, Telecom-Italia, will harvest the incipient technology that comes out of TRUST in the healthcare sector to better understand and build upon its own base.

TRUST has an ambitious goal of reaching a diversity goal of 30% of women in its faculty and students, and 10% of researchers from underrepresented communities, and has been proactive in this regard. Several activities for enhancing diversity are reported in the corresponding section.

Overall, we are happy to report that the center is making excellent progress towards its goals, its participants are actively engaged, and the outlook is positive.

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  Faculty and Staff. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html"><i>TRUST
  Annual Report 2006-2007</i></a>, Technical
  report,  Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology
  (TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center., January,
  2007; The previous annual report is also <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/106.html">available</a>.

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  Faculty and Staff. "TRUST Annual Report 2006-2007".
  Technical report,  Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure
  Technology (TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center.,
  January, 2007; The previous annual report is also available.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{FacultyStaff07_TRUSTAnnualReport20062007,
      author = {Faculty and Staff},
      title = {TRUST Annual Report 2006-2007},
      institution = {Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology
                (TRUST), an NSF Science and Technology Center.},
      month = {January},
      year = {2007},
      note = {The previous annual report is also available.},
      abstract = {The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security
                Technology (TRUST) was created in response to a
                growing sense of urgency in dealing with all
                aspects of cybersecurity as it affects society.
                First, the role and penetration of computing
                systems and networks in our societal
                infrastructure continues to grow, and their
                importance to societal safety and the security has
                never been greater. Beyond mere connection to the
                internet and access to global resources,
                information systems are now used for controlling
                critical infrastructures for electricity,
                healthcare, finance, and medical networks. Second,
                and somewhat contradictorily, many such control
                systems remain untrustworthy. Waves of viruses and
                worms sweep the Internet and exhibit increasing
                virulence and rate of speed that is also directly
                proportional to their growing ease of deployment.
                Privacy remains poorly understood and poorly
                supported; security is generally inadequate, and
                some speak of a “market failure” in the
                domain. Broader issues of software usability,
                reliability and correctness remain challenging.
                Industry stakeholders are unable to recruit new
                employees adequately trained in these
                technologies. Society is placing computers into
                critical roles, although they do not meet the
                requirements of trust. 
  TRUST is composed of
                several universities—Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon,
                Cornell, San Jose State, Stanford and
                Vanderbilt—which have joined forces to organize
                a multifaceted response. TRUST represents the
                strongest and most diverse engagement of the issue
                of trusted systems ever assembled. TRUST is the
                first to recognize the breadth of the problem and
                to combine fundamental science with a broader
                multidisciplinary focus on economic, social and
                legal considerations and a substantial educational
                mission. TRUST will enable dialog with
                stakeholders whose needs simply cannot be
                approached in a narrower and purely technical
                manner, or by any single research group. TRUST
                seeks to be an intermediary between the policy
                makers and society at large on the one hand, and
                the researchers, academics, and industrial
                providers of services and technology on the other.
                
  TRUST seeks to achieve its mission through
                research as well as a global policy for engaging
                in education of society as a whole. This annual
                report of TRUST details the experience of the
                center along many dimensions—research,
                industrial outreach and knowledge transfer,
                education, and diversity outreach. 
  In research,
                TRUST has achieved success along several
                fronts—in model-based integration of trusted
                components and co-design of networked embedded
                systems, in the creation of new software tools for
                monitoring and controlling large sensor
                infrastructures, creation of integrative testbeds
                for critical infrastructures, in understanding
                privacy and other legal issues surrounding
                identity theft, and designing tools for
                anti-phishing technology, etc. All these are
                reported in detail in the research thrusts area of
                this report. 
  In education, TRUST is leveraging
                an existing learning technology infrastructure to
                quickly enable TRUST courseware and material to be
                assembled, deposited in a repository, and adapted
                for wide web-based content dissemination. In
                addition to developing special courses for
                undergraduate and graduate curricula, and regular
                seminars in all campuses as well as webcasts,
                TRUST has hosted a series of workshops on sensor
                networks, privacy, identity theft, electronic
                medical records. The major thrust in the second
                year was the TRUST Academy Online (TAO) and the
                Education Community Development efforts. Again,
                all these are reported in the education section.
                
  In knowledge transfer, TRUST has begun an
                aggressive program of technology transition with
                industry (from bug reports of open source software
                to tools such as Spoofguard and various consulting
                activities) and active engagement with
                governmental agencies such as the Department of
                Homeland Security (DHS), the Air Force Office of
                Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Department of
                Defense (DoD), and the Department of Energy (DoE)
                which are all concerned with issues of security.
                Also, TRUST has a large and growing set of
                industrial partners such as Intel, Microsoft, Sun,
                and United Technologies with whom we are beginning
                to engage in collaborations of mutual interest.
                For example, one such partner, Telecom-Italia,
                will harvest the incipient technology that comes
                out of TRUST in the healthcare sector to better
                understand and build upon its own base. 
  TRUST
                has an ambitious goal of reaching a diversity goal
                of 30% of women in its faculty and students, and
                10% of researchers from underrepresented
                communities, and has been proactive in this
                regard. Several activities for enhancing diversity
                are reported in the corresponding section.
                
  Overall, we are happy to report that the center
                is making excellent progress towards its goals,
                its participants are actively engaged, and the
                outlook is positive.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/257.html}
  }
  

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