The mission of NSF SECURE Analytics is to deliver data, tools and resources to enhance the research community’s capacity to pursue risk-informed international collaboration.
NSF SECURE Analytics intends to achieve this mission by building a dedicated team of geopolitical analysts, data engineers and programs who will develop open-source datasets and methodologies, and analyze and report on patterns of research security risk, threat types and malign actors.
Proactive Risk Mitigation
Move beyond reactive measures to anticipate and mitigate potential threats.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Provide evidence-based insights to support informed decisions about research security.
Enhanced Collaboration
Foster cooperation between government agencies and the research community.
Protection of Research Integrity
Protect and safeguard the integrity of U.S. research and intellectual property.
Deliverables
NSF SECURE Analytics intends to deliver tools and resources to stakeholders across the research community to enhance their ability to make risk-based decisions.
Open-source datasets, methodologies and tools
Our team will develop materials to identify and analyze patterns of research security risk, threat types, and foreign influence.
Engagement and collaboration
Working hand-in-hand with stakeholders to meet their needs, address their concerns, and enhance their research security capacity.
Community-facing query platform
Accredited users empowered to query the research priorities, collaboration networks, and professional associations of potential international research partners.
Proprietary data analysis
Leveraging our back-end granularity and functionality to conduct data analysis supporting enhanced incident and landscape analyses and timely research security risk reports.
Reference library of policies, leading practices and reports
A resource intended to raise situational awareness for stakeholders of global research security risk.
Training coordinated with National SECURE Center
Capacity building training on research security risk detection, assessment, and mitigation in coordination with the SECURE Center.