NSF Org: |
CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems |
Recipient: |
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Initial Amendment Date: | August 25, 2015 |
Latest Amendment Date: | May 10, 2016 |
Award Number: | 1537538 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
Program Manager: |
Dan Cosley
dcosley@nsf.gov (703)292-8832 CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems CSE Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr |
Start Date: | September 1, 2015 |
End Date: | December 31, 2016 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $251,603.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $259,603.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2016 = $0.00 |
History of Investigator: |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
300 W. 12TH STREET ROLLA MO US 65409-1330 (573)341-4134 |
Sponsor Congressional District: |
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Primary Place of Performance: |
MO US 65409-6506 |
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District: |
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Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): |
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NSF Program(s): |
Special Projects - CNS, Secure &Trustworthy Cyberspace |
Primary Program Source: |
01001617DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
Program Reference Code(s): |
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Program Element Code(s): |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
The project will investigate human factors in network security. The security of network systems relies on proper protection from not only known vulnerabilities, but also new vulnerabilities resulting from unexpected human behavior. The project will directly address a user's situational behavior and its consequence on network security. It engages in the challenges of modeling decision-making process and integrating it in the human-network interaction. If the user's behavior can be predicted and its impact on network vulnerability can be estimated, the network manager can effectively close vulnerabilities and avoid grave security breaches. This will change the view of a network as a static infrastructure and security holes as design flaws of the infrastructure, and it will regard humans as an integral factor in network security.
The project involves theoretical and experimental study from behavioral science and research methodology from computer science and statistics in modeling the decision-making process. It uses the model to predict user behavior when the user's psychological state and network variables have changed, which would greatly assist the network manager to attain an up-to-date assessment of network vulnerability. The work includes three thrusts: 1) a theoretical framework for studying human cyber behavior, 2) experimental study on human subjects in a cyber environment, and 3) comprehensive human-network system-level vulnerability analysis. The major outcome of this project is an integrated framework to include human factors in network vulnerability analysis.
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