The government has outlined its first steps for coordinating and expanding federal research and development efforts aimed at improving cybersecurity. The new Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development, issued in April and now available online, lays the groundwork for developing an R&D agenda that will help address critical gaps in current technologies and capabilities.

The authors identify several technology trends that “make it likely that the security issues of the IT infrastructure will only intensify over the next decade.

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