REQcollect: Requirements Collection, Project Matching and Technology Transition

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Jackson³

et al. 2016

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This paper describes the success of the Hyperion Tool's pilot deployment and assessment in a Department of HomelandSecurity's (DHS) cyber center using the embedded research and development (eR&D) methodology/approach detailed in [1]. The eR&D methodology ensures the eR&D Team is tightly coupled with operational stakeholders to seamlessly and continuously identify operational requirements from stakeholders, discover R&D projects that may apply to the requirements, filter the R&D projects to select the applicable R&D technologies, then integrate the selected technology into the operational environment.This pilot deployment and assessment served as a "proof of concept" of the eR&D approach by demonstrating a stakeholder's articulated requirements could be matched with newly developed technologies. Specifically, a DHS cyber center identified the need for a malware analysis tool that would automatically identify malware with little to no malware analyst interaction. The eR&D Team then took this requirement and discovered and filtered the Hyperion Tool as developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a newly developed technology that could address this need and proposed a pilot deployment and assessment for integration into the DHS cyber center's workspaces. The eR&D process helped to close an operational gap by connecting the research and operational communities.

Section: Reqcollectmentioning

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Section: Reqcollectmentioning

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Using the eR&D Approach to Pilot Deployment and Assessment in DHS

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2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

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“…This centralization and standardization of project and requirement data provides automated, suggested matches and discovery [6]. Before development of REQcollect, matching a research requirement to a research project was a time-consuming, manual process.…”

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Embedded R&amp;D for Cybersecurity in an Operational Environment

2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Davis

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et al. 2015

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This paper describes a paradigm shift from how cybersecurity research and development (R&D) is traditionally applied in an operational environment. The methodology is referred to as embedded R&D (eR&D); cybersecurity researchers are tightly coupled with the operational stakeholders. This tight-knit relationship allows the researchers to elicit R&D requirements from the stakeholders seamlessly on a continuous basis, and gives the researchers immediate access to the tactical environment in which the analysts and operators work; this helps close the gap in the age-old disconnect between the research and operational communities.Tools may be employed to enhance, augment, and advance the mission of an eR&D team. One such tool, REQcollect [5], was developed through several agile development iterations and the through the transition of other projects. Multiple federal agencies have sponsored the work and subsequently transitioned the technologies into use. The predecessors to REQcollect are REQdb (REQuirements Database) and DART3 (Department of Homeland Security Assistant for R&D Tracking and Technology Transfer) [6]. REQcollect combines the best components of these two systems: a requirements elicitation and collection tool and a Google-like matching algorithm to identify potential transitions of R&D projects with similar or identical requirements.