Information Security, Privacy and Confidentiality National Science Foundation's Past and Current Funding Profile and Future Opportunities

Summary form only given. National Science Foundation (NSF) has a long-standing interest in protecting, enhancing and evaluating information security, privacy and confidentiality in information systems. The interest is broad including new architectures, algorithms, data collection and evaluation methods. All these are in recognition of newly emerging environments and applications (e.g. pervasive computing, mobile, sensor and distributed databases, discovery and handling of future threats), newly emerging requirements and increasing public interest in this topic. This paper discusses NSF's past and current funding profile and future funding opportunities for secure information systems research