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Originally From: Clifford Neuman <bcn@ISI.EDU>
Countering Cyber-Terrorism
June 22-23
Marina del Rey, California
A workshop sponsored by the Information Sciences Institute
of the University of Southern California
Call for Participation
Recent studies warn of Cyber-Terrorism and the vulnerability of our
computer systems and infrastructure to attack. These reports identify
damage that determined, knowledgeable, and well-financed adversaries could
inflict on commercial, government, and military systems. Such attacks
would have severe consequences for the public, and in particular the
economy, which has become dependant on computers and communications
infrastructure.
The objective of this workshop is to identify things that should be done
to improve our ability to detect, protect against, contain, neutralize,
mitigate the effects of, and recover from cyber-terrorist attacks.
Participants are sought from the computer security, electronic commerce
and banking, network infrastructure, military, and counter-terrorism
communities, as well as those with experience of cyber-terrorist attacks.
Recommendations may suggest research and development or operational
measures that can be taken. The workshop is NOT a forum for presentation
of the latest security systems, protocols or algorithms. The workshop
will address the strategies, framework, and infrastructure required to
combine and incrementally deploy such technologies to counter the
cyber-terrorist threat.
Attendance will be limited to approximately 25 participants. Participants
will be selected on the basis of submitted position papers that raise
issues for the workshop to discuss, identify threats or countermeasures,
or propose strategies or infrastructure to counter the threat of
cyber-terrorism. Position papers should be four pages or less in length.
Submissions should be sent in e-mail in Word or PDF format, or as ASCII
text to cyber-terrorism-ws@isi.edu.
Please check the web page http://www.isi.edu/cctws for more information,
including a position paper from the organizers which will be available two
weeks prior to the submission deadline.
Important Dates:
Organizer's Paper Available April 5, 1999
Position Papers Due April 19, 1999
Notification of Acceptance May 1, 1999
Revised Position Papers Due May 28, 1999
Position Papers Available on Web June 9
Workshop Dates June 22-23
Organizing Committee:
Bob Balzer, Information Sciences Institute, Balzer@isi.edu
Thomas Longstaff, CERT Coordination Center, tal@cert.org
Don Faatz, the MITRE Corporation, dfaatz@mitre.org
Clifford Neuman, Information Sciences Institute, bcn@isi.edu
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