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2009 Workshop on Cyber Security and Global Affairs

Joint Project of

International Cyber Center
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

and 

St Peter’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

St Peter's College, University of Oxford logo

Location: St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK

August 3 to August 6, 2009

Sponsored By Office of Naval Research


ICC Corporate Patrons: Booz Allen Hamilton; Lockheed Martin Corporation

   

The International Cyber Center at GMU and St.Peter’s College at Oxford are jointly organizing a workshop on Cyber Security and Global Affairs.  This program will take an interdisciplinary view of cyber security and related global issues.  We will have two types of sessions – plenary sessions and break-out sessions.  The plenary presentations will involve a mix of invited speakers and active discussion among the attendees.  The program is structured to facilitate participant interaction.  Except for the break-out sessions there will be no parallel sessions.

 
Workshop Program and Agenda are now available - click here.

Who should attend

We invite participation of students, faculty, corporate executives, senior government officials, and executives from international organizations.  This is meant to be an interdisciplinary workshop.  Participants with technology, strategy, and law enforcement backgrounds are encouraged to attend.

Speakers

The following speakers have already accepted our invitation to speak at the workshop.

  • Jerry Archer, Chief Information Security Officer, Intuit
    • "Postcards from the Edge –Effective Security Risk Management  -- Defense In-depth strategy in an Escalating Threat Environment"
  • Roberto Baldoni, Professor, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • "Extracting cyber warnings from Internet background noise through federated distributed systems"
  • Andreas Baumhof, Trust Defender, Australia
    • "Are we losing the fight? - A practical overview how malware threatens the internet economy at the example of mebroot/torpig"
  • Ian Brown, Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
    • "Asking the right questions about cybersecurity"
  • Jacques Bus, Head of Trust & Security Unit, ICT Research, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission
    • "Trust and Privacy - EU research activities"
  • Sadie Creese,  Director of e-Security, International Digital Laboratory, The University of Warwick
    • "Global security challenges of cloud computing"   
  • Adrian Davis, Senior Research Consultant, Information Security Forum, London
    • "What does the future hold? Information security threats in 2011 and beyond"
  • Raoul D'Costa, Technical Manager, 3M Security Systems Division
    • "Cloud Security Alliance: Guidance for Best Practices to Secure Cloud Computing"
  • Erol Gelenbe, Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, London
    • "Smart Stable Networks in the Presence of Attacks"
  • Robert Ghanea-Hercock, Chief  Researcher, Centre for Information & Security Systems Research, BT Innovate
    • "Network Security: a Complex Adaptive System"

  • Edward P Gibson, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft Ltd UK

    • "Today is the Beginning of . . ."
  • Henry Horton, Partner, CyberSecurity Initiative/PS NA Security, Accenture
    • "Enhancing Situational Awareness Through Cyberintelligence"
  • Mitchell Komaroff, Director, Globalization Task Force, Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity and Information Assurance (CIIA)
    • "Leverage the power of the Internet while achieving Dynamic Cyber Defense"
  • Stuart Malawer, Distinguished Service Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
    • "Cyberwarfare Law and Policy Proposals for U.S. and Global Governance"
  • John Osterholz,  Vice President Cyber Warfare and Cybersecurity BAE Systems
    • "Integrating Cybersecurity and Network Enabled Operations: the role of the NOSC
  • Wayne Pacine, Senior Interagency Project Analyst, Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System
    • "Cyber Security and Resiliency in the U.S. Financial Sector"
  • Robert  Pitkethly, St. Peter's College Oxford, Faculty Member Said Business School, Oxford University
    • "Intellectual Property and  Cyber Security"
  • Andy Purdy, Co-Director, International Cyber Center.  Formerly, Acting Director National Cyber Security Division, US Dept of Homeland Security
    • "Toward a strategic approach to national ICT risk-a Perspective from the US"
  • Katie Richards, Director Europe, Fairwinds Partners
    • "The Domain Name Space: Looking back - 16 years since .com. Key observations, problems and proactive solutions."
  • Ron Ross, Project Leader, FISMA Implrmentation Projec, Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • "Integrated Enterprise-wide Risk Management - Organization, Mission, and Information Systems View"
  • Alexandra Savelieva, Lecturer, Faculty of Business Informatics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow 
    • "Cryptographic systems evaluation problem"
  • Arun Sood, Professor (Computer Science), Co-Director, International Cyber Center, George Mason University
    • "Beyond Prevention and Detection - Intrusion Tolerance"
  • Patricia Titus, Chief Information Security Officer, Unisys Corporation, Federal Systems
    • "Through the Cyber Looking Glass – The perspective from a US Federal CISO turned Private Sector CISO"
  • Ralph Wachter, Program Officer, Software and Systems Research Program, Office of Naval Research.
  • Bob West, Founder and CEO, Echelon One, LLC.
    • "Creating a Resilient Global Economy" 

Workshop Program and Agenda

Steering Committee and Workshop Directors

Workshop steering committee includes:

1.      Kenneth Addison, St Peter’s College Oxford

2.      Stuart Malawer, Distinguished Service Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

3.      Andy Purdy, Co-Director, International Cyber Center.  Formerly, Acting Director National Cyber Security Division, US Dept of Homeland Security

4.      Arun Sood, Professor (Computer Science), Co-Director, International Cyber Center, George Mason University – Committee Chair.

Workshop Topics

In general, the workshop will deal with strategic, policy, technology and global issues.  The cyber security threat is not constrained by national boundaries.  Thus, the international implications of the security and privacy issues is very important in this workshop. 

Some of the topics to be covered in the workshop are:

  1. Cyber warfare and intelligence gathering
  2. Cyber defense and preparedness  
  3. International standards of privacy
  4. Cyber crime   
  5. Cyber crime and other malicious activity
  6. Intellectual Property Rights protection

Call for Papers

Participants in this workshop will have an opportunity to participate actively in the discussions.  In addition, participants can make 15-minute presentations during the plenary sessions.  Interested participants should submit a one page abstract for evaluation by the workshop steering committee.  The abstract submission and processing schedule is:

Abstract due                            June 15, 2009

Selection and notification          June 22, 2009

Full paper                                July 14, 2009

Registration

 Room and board will be provided by St. Peter's College. Room and board costs and registration fee are included in the registration form. Please download the registration form by clicking here.  Return completed form by email to: alison.wiblin@spc.ox.ac.uk OR post to: St Peter’s College, Oxford OX1 2DL, UK.  For additional questions contact Dr Arun Sood: asood (at) gmu (dot) edu .  

Scholarships

The workshop organizers expect that they will be able to offer scholarships to a few attendees.  The scholarship will partially cover the costs in connection with the workshop. Please contact Dr. Arun Sood: asood (at) gmu (dot) edu.