02324nas a2200277   4500008004100000022001400041245012600055210006900181260004200250300001000292490000600302520145000308653001101758653001701769653002401786653001801810653002101828653003701849653004201886653001501928653001301943100001701956700002001973700001701993856003602010       2013                        eng d  a1927-032100aSecuring Canada’s Information-Technology Infrastructure: Context, Principles, and Focus Areas of Cybersecurity Research0 aSecuring Canada s InformationTechnology Infrastructure Context P  aOttawabTalent First Networkc07/2013  a12-180 v33 aThis article addresses the challenges of cybersecurity and ultimately the provision of a stable and resilient information-technology infrastructure for Canada and, more broadly, the world. We describe the context of current cybersecurity challenges by synthesizing key source material whose importance was informed by our own real-world experiences. Furthermore, we present a checklist of guiding principles to a unified response, complete with a set of action-oriented research topics that are linked to known operational limitations. The focus areas are used to drive the formulation of a unified and relevant research and experimental development program, thereby moving us towards a stable and resilient cyberinfrastructure. When cybersecurity is viewed as an inherently interdisciplinary problem of societal concern, we expect that fundamentally new research perspectives will emerge in direct response to domain-specific protection requirements for information-technology infrastructure. Purely technical responses to cybersecurity challenges will be inadequate because human factors are an inherent aspect of the problem.

This article will interest managers and entrepreneurs. Senior management teams can assess new technical developments and product releases to fortify their current security solutions, while entrepreneurs can harness new opportunities to commercialize novel technology to solve a high-impact cybersecurity problem..10aCanada10acyberdefence10acyberinfrastructure10acybersecurity10aentrepreneurship10aexperimental development program10ainformation-technology infrastructure10amanagement10aresearch1 aCraigen, Dan1 aWalsh, D’Arcy1 aWhyte, David  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/704