Registration opens for CyCon 2012
CyCon 2012 is the fourth annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict taking place in Tallinn, Estonia on 5-8 June this year. The conference, which is organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, will focus on military and paramilitary activities in cyberspace. CyCon registration is now open (
www.cycon.org/reg) and the Early Bird rate of €421 will apply for participants who sign up before 1 April.
The conference is targeted to experts from the government, military, academic and private sectors and the main topic will be
explored from the political, legal and technical perspectives within two parallel tracks: the
Law & Policy Track and the
Technical Track. Additionally three different workshops and a Strategy Breakout Session will be offered.
The Law & Policy Track will focus on the challenges that cyberspace currently presents to legal and policy practitioners and academics. It will offer relatively short but intensive presentations, followed by moderated panel discussions providing the audience with an opportunity for active participation through questions, comments and statements. Confirmed speakers for this track include Prof. Dr Michael N. Schmitt (Chairman of the International Law Department, United States Naval War College), Prof. Dr Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg (European University Viadrina), Jason Healey (Atlantic Council, Head of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative) and Michele Markoff (Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, United States Department of State).
The Technical Track will be exploring the practical side of cyber conflict, cyber attack and cyber weapons. The track will contain a mix of practitioner and researcher presentations and discussions. Confirmed speakers for this track include Latif Ladid (IPv6 Forum), Prof. Thomas Chen (Swansea University), Felix Lindner (Recurity Labs), Martin J. Muench (Gamma International), Ilias Chantzos (Symantec) and Florian Walther (Chaos Computer Club).
The Strategy Breakout Session will explore cyber conflict, cyber weapons and cyber attacks from the conceptual perspective. The session talks will be based on research papers that aim to explain the current situation as well as propose new approaches for the future.
The conference will feature three workshops on 5 June, two of which will be conducted in cooperation with the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI).
“Introduction to Computers and Networks” (CSFI)
is targeted at non-technical experts who would like to have a deeper understanding of the technical side of cyber.
“Malware Analysis Workshop” (CFSI)
is targeted at computer forensics investigators (law enforcement), incident responders, malware analysts and cyber commands. The audience will be given the understanding, tools and processes necessary to conduct malware analysis and produce reports which can endure legal scrutiny and serve as evidence. There will also be a special
workshop for the members of media and its goal is to give journalists an introduction to some of the conference topics and current hot cyber issues in the world. Additionally, this workshop will allow them to have an extensive Q&A with the top speakers of the conference.
The conference registration fee is €495 and the government fee is €195. An Early Bird rate of €421 applies for participants who register before 1 April at
www.cycon.org/reg. The fee covers the conference proceedings, all meals during the conference and all social networking events. Discounts apply to students, CSFI members and NATO CCD COE partner organisations, who should contact logistics.cycon-at-ccdcoe.org for information on how to apply for the discount. Journalists wishing to participate the conference are kindly asked to contact kristiina.pennar-at-ccdcoe.org for accreditation.
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is one of many NATO Centres of Excellence. Its mission is to enhance the capability, cooperation and information sharing among NATO, its member nations and partners in cyber defence by virtue of education, research and development, lessons learned and consultation.
For additional information:
Kristiina Pennar
Public Relations
+372 717 6811
CyCon 2012 is fully booked
The conference is fully booked and registration is no longer available. Media representatives please turn to kristiina.pennar-at-ccdcoe.org for accreditation.
Christopher Taylorr
Don EijndhovenKeren ElazariRoger KuhnPaul de Souza
This workshop is targeted at non-technical experts who would like to have a deeper understanding of the technical side of cyber. Laptops are not required for this workshop.
The workshop is conducted in cooperation with the
Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI).
9:00-11:00
Internet and Internet Communication Presenters:
Roger Kuhn (CSFI) and Don Eijndhoven (CEO Argent Consulting/CSFI) During this session, the architecture and the main components of the Internet will be described. Terms like “router”, “data packet”, “Tier 1 ISP” or “bit” will be explained. Further, it will be shown how information is passed through the Internet. The audience will also be provided information on possibilities and limits of blocking Internet communication at the “borders” of a State.
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30
Network Monitoring Technologies to Identify Cyber Threats
Presenters: Paul de Souza (CSFI) and Keren Elazari (VERINT)The evolving cyber threat landscape has demonstrated in recent years the gap between the level of security and visibility afforded by classic IT Security solutions and the obvious need for powerful and comprehensive data gathering mechanisms and analysis methods to enable investigation of cyber attacks. Accordingly, more and more security organizations worldwide are looking into employing further analytics and forensic technologies at an ever increasing scale. These technologies include: Network forensics, deep packet inspection (DPI), full packet capture, net flow analysis, traffic intelligence, cyber intelligence, network analysis & visibility (NAV) , advanced HIPS and NIDS & next generation firewalls. In the workshop, we will present in brief & examine some of the available technologies and methods, and explain how they can be utilized in order to investigate and analyze sophisticated cyber attacks.
12:30-14:30
Lunch
14:30-15:30
Botnets Presenter: Jeff Bardin (Treadstone 71)
The audience will be provided the information of what botnets are and how they are set up. The main criminal areas of the usage of botnets will be shown. Additionally, cases of main “real-life” botnets as well as their take-down by law enforcement authorities will be presented. This will include the explanation of the possibilities of monitoring, taking-over and taking-down of botnets.
15:30-16:30
Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) Presenter: Christopher Taylor (Cytech)
The nature and working area of CERTs will be presented. Especially, it will be shown what measures CERTs usually use in order to monitor and protect a computer network. In this context, also the potential need and actual extend of national, bi-lateral and international (e.g. FIRST) cooperation between CERTs will be explained. This will include a general description of the information which of the exchange would be desirable.
