Cyber

S&T Mobile Device Security Study

Mandated by the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the “Study on Mobile Device Security” relied on significant input from mobile industry vendors, carriers, service providers and academic researchers.

Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk & Resilience Policy

The Office of Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience Policy (CIRR) leads the development of cybersecurity, technology, and infrastructure policy and strategy for the Department.

National Tabletop Exercises (NTTX)

The National Seminar and Tabletop Exercise for Institutions of Higher Education (NTTX) is a series of campus-based events to test and promote campus resilience and emergency preparedness. The series brings together senior higher education leaders, as well as federal, state and local representatives from departments and agencies that support campus resilience to participate in workshops and work through a designed emergency scenario.

Written testimony of USCG Commandant for a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard hearing titled “Assessing the Coast Guard's Increasing Duties: A focus on drug and migrant interdiction”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft addresses Coast Guard missions.

DHS/S&T/PIA-006 Protected Repository for the Defense of Infrastructure Against Cyber Threats

DHS/S&T/PIA-006 Protected Repository for the Defense of Infrastructure Against Cyber Threats

S&T Mobile Device Acquisition

The following are CFTT reports for mobile device acquisition tools (organized by publication date). 

CFTT Reports

S&T partners with the NIST CFTT project to provide forensic tool testing reports to the public. The CFTT project has established a methodology for testing computer forensic software tools utilizing tool specifications, test procedures, test criteria, test sets, and test hardware.

S&T Software Quality Assurance Fact Sheet

S&T SwQA is developing innovative approaches to re-duce the risk and cost of software failures.

S&T Mobile Device Security Fact Sheet

Current mobile security techniques have evolved from a desktop-centric approach.

S&T DETER Testbed Fact Sheet

The Defense Experimental Research (DETER) testbed project enables cybersecurity researchers to run experiments on a secure "virtual Internet." The testbed provides contained environments that allow researchers to safely test advanced defense mechanisms against "live" threats without endangering other research or the larger Internet. The project was originally jointly funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate and the National Science Foundation.