eSecurity Portfolio : Overview, Analysis of Value Added, and Way Ahead

Abstract

The Centre for Security Sciences eSecurity Community of Practice was created 5 years ago to give increased visibility and focus to a growing threat to public safety and security. With the establishment of an associated eSecurity portfolio, the cyber security projects were grouped facilitating management and fostering program coherence. This report traces the origins of the eSecurity portfolio and provides an overview of past and planned investment. It provides a consolidated listing of reports generated and a discussion of plans and priorities for the Way Ahead. It breaks ground by providing a comprehensive self-evaluation, an attempt to analyze the value added. Forty projects were examined using a five point assessment framework developed and applied recently to evaluate Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Research and Technology Initiative projects. The results of the analysis suggest that the majority of eSecurity projects have indeed added value. They also indicate that the eSecurity program focus is shifting from knowledge generation to technology transition and support to operations, reflecting priorities of the Canadian Safety and Security Program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1003640

Entities

People

  • Andrew Vallerand
  • Doug Hales
  • Eric Cooper
  • Margaret Porter-greene
  • Rodney Howes

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Community Of Practice
  • Computer Network Security
  • Control Systems
  • Cyber Threats
  • Cyberattacks
  • Data Mining
  • Detectors
  • Electronic Mail
  • Emergency Response
  • Health Services
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber