The Center for Cyber Strategy and Policy
Home of Initiative Persistence
Cyberspace is vital for our future. Cyberspace is vulnerable to exploitation. The Center for Cyber Strategy and Policy (CCSP) at UC works to ensure that cyberspace’s vitality is not overwhelmed by its vulnerability through novel strategic and operational concepts and new models of cyber training and exercising based on the construct of cyber persistence. Through social science and strategic studies research methods, CCSP works through multidisciplinary interactions with the technical and computing sciences communities as collaborators in advancing a more secure cyberspace.
The CCSP image captures the challenge of securing cyberspace. The use of chess pieces is to emphasize the notion of strategy. The multiplying knights depicts the ever-changing character of malware that can morph into new versions and take advantage of new vectors for exploitation of vulnerabilities. The shadows depict the ever-present opportunity to leverage uncertainty regarding network intrusion, intruder, an intruder’s intent, the scale and scope of a campaign, and even the game being played (perhaps you are playing GO instead of chess)--you may think you are playing against the knight and can anticipate those moves, when in fact you are playing against a bishop with very different operational capabilities and potential for strategic gain. The defeated pawn acknowledges the potential to win and lose in cyberspace (note that a draw is possible in chess, Go, and in cyberspace).
CCSP and Ohio Cyber Range Institute (OCRI)
Sponsored by the Ohio Department of Higher Education, the Ohio Adjutant General's Department office of the Ohio National Guard, and headquartered at the University of Cincinnati, the Ohio Cyber Range Institute supports collaborative cybersecurity programs across Ohio.
Regional Programming Centers (RPCs), either institutions or organizations, are designated by the OCRI. Each RPC acts as a partner in the facilitation, support, and delivery of programming activities directly related to the education, workforce, and economic development missions of the OCRI.
CCSP is part of the University of Cincinnati's RPC and provides the OCRI with educational programming and cybersecurity research.