"Security by Design"
Nadya Bliss, the executive director of Arizona State University's Global Security Initiative, and her colleagues from the University of Maryland, Lehigh University, Cornell University, and the University of Utah are calling on technologists to prioritize security together with capability in the design of new technologies. They released a white paper titled "A Research Ecosystem for Secure Computing," discussing how security can be incentivized in the design and development of new technologies. The steps outlined by their paper that supports security incentivization include investment in lifelong learning and training, sustained investment in computer science research, public/private partnerships surrounding security metrics, and more. This article continues to discuss the need to balance capabilities and convenience with security, the goal of Quadrennial Papers released by the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the white paper that outlines steps toward the incentivization of security in the development of technological innovations.