This page provides a listing of publications that are of interest to the SENDS project. This is not an endorsement of any specific publication, nor is it a recommended reading list.
Books:
Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise, by John R. Pierce
Grammatical Man: Information – Entropy – Language – Life by Jeremy Campbell
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter Ong
The Silent Language, by Edward Hall
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John H. Holland
Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier by Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen
Public documents that are highly relevant to planning of cyber security research and development (Ref DHS web site)
| Org. | Document Title | Year | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHS S&T | A Roadmap for Cybersecurity Research | 2009 | PDF (2.2MB) |
| White House | The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative | 2010 | PDF (280KB) |
| NCDI | National Cyber Defense Financial Services Workshop Report | 2009 | PDF (1.0MB) |
| NITRD | National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009, Co-Chairs’ Report | 2009 | PDF (324KB) |
| White House | White House Cyberspace Policy Review | 2009 | PDF (710KB) |
| CAIDA – pending | The Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS) Report | 2009 | PDF (120KB) |
| I3P – pending | National Cyber Security: Research and Development Challenges Related to Economics, Physical Infrastructure and Human Behavior | 2009 | PDF (136KB) |
| CSIS | Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency: A Report of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency | 2008 | PDF (999KB) |
| FSSCC | Research Agenda for the Banking and Finance Sector | 2008 | PDF (150KB) |
| USC-ISI – pending | Census and Survey of the Visible Internet | 2008 | PDF (764KB) |
| GAO | Report on the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives | 2008 | PDF (150KB) |
| RAND | Cyber Security Economic Issues: Corporate Approaches and Challenges to Decisionmaking | 2008 | PDF (100KB) |
| DoD | Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Mission Impact of Foreign Influence on DoD Software |
2007 | PDF (1.8MB) |
| NRC | Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace | 2007 | PDF (1.7MB) |
| CCR | The Workshop on Internet Topography (WIT) Report | 2007 | PDF (74KB) |
| ACM | Computer Immunology | 2007 | PDF (156KB) |
| NIST | SP 800-82: Guide to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Industrial Control Systems Security | 2006 | PDF (2.2MB) |
| NSTC | Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development | 2006 | PDF (1.1MB) |
| DOE | Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Energy Sector | 2006 | PDF (2.1MB) |
| I3P | I3P Economics Project Workshop Report | 2006 | PDF (1.9MB) |
| IRC | Hard Problem List | 2005 | PDF (0.3MB) |
| PITAC | Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization | 2005 | PDF (2.3MB) |
| CCR | Community-Oriented Network Measurement Infrastructure (CONMI) Workshop Report | 2005 | PDF (107KB) |
| USSS | Insider Threat Study: Illicit Cyber Activity in the Banking and Finance Sector | 2004 | PDF (109KB) |
| NIAC | Hardening The Internet | 2004 | PDF (0.1MB) |
| Information Security Governance: A Call to Action | 2004 | PDF (0.5MB) | |
| CRA | Four Grand Challenges in Trustworthy Computing | 2003 | PDF (0.2MB) |
| White House | The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace | 2003 | PDF (1.0MB) |
| I3P | Cyber Security Research and Development Agenda | 2003 | PDF (0.4MB) |
| McGill | Multiple Source Internet Tomography | 2003 | PDF (514KB) |
| NRC | Trust in Cyberspace | 1999 | PDF (0.9MB) |
| University of New Mexico | Immunity by Design: An Artificial Immune System | 1999 | PDF (80KB) |
| University of New Mexico | Principles of a Computer Immune System | 1999 | PDF (80KB) |
| PCCIP | Critical Foundations: Protecting America’s Infrastructures | 1997 | PDF (1.0MB) |
