Pass or Fail? Researchers Grade Progress of Long-Term Cybersecurity Goals

In November 2003, fifty of the nation’s top computer scientists met in the Virginian countryside where they created a plan to tackle the biggest problems facing the growing field of computer security and privacy, known then as trustworthy computing.

The meeting borrowed elements from the Gordon Research Conferences, meaning the discussions and attendees were never made public. It was the second in a series of highly nontraditional conferences meant to define important questions rather than present current research.

The grand challenges established by this group of academics drove the cybersecurity research agenda for over a decade.