Workshop on Countering Cyber-Terrorism
A workshop sponsored by the Information Sciences Institute
of the University of Southern California
June 22-23, 1999
9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. PDT each day
Location: USC ISI, 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey,
California
Agenda
Tuesday June 22nd
- 9:00-9:45 Opening remarks, Discussion of goals - What is Cyber-Terrorism
- Clifford Neuman, Bob Balzer, Thomas Longstaff, Don Faatz, Sami Saydjari,
- 09:45-10:00 Introductions
- 10:00-12:00 Short Presentations and Discussion
- Defining Cyber-Terrorism
- What it is and is not
- Motivations for the Cyber-Terrorist
- Goals of the Cyber-Terrorist
- Our worst fears regarding Cyber-Terrorism
Speakers:
- Walter Tirenin - Strategic Cyber Defense
- Bradley Wood - Testing the Assunptions of the Cyber-Terrorist
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch - provided - informal discussions during
- 1:00-2:45 Short Presentations and Discussion
- State of preparedness - Countermeasures
- What can be done to prevent successful attacks
- What can be done today to make sure we can recover from attacks
- What are the promising directions in research and practice
Speakers:
- James E. Just - Some Useful Capabilities in Countering Cyber-Terrorism
- Bob Balzer - Two in Reserve
- Clifford Neuman - A Platform for Recovering From Cyber-Terrorism
- 2:45-3:15 break
- 3:15-4:45 Short Presentations and Discussion
- Gaps - What's missing
- Recommendations for new countermeasures
Speakers:
- Lebin Cheng - Virtual Private Corporation
- William Yurcik - Adaptive Multi-Layer Network Survivability
- Michael Del Rosso and Anup Ghosh - Role of Private Industry and Government
- 4:45-5:00 Wrap up - Posing of questions for Day Two
Wednesday June 23nd
- 9:00-9:30 Discussion of desired workshop results/outcome
- 9:30-12:15 Discussion of questions from day one
- 12:15-1:15 Lunch - provided - informal discussions during
- 1:15-3:00 Open - t.b.d.
- 3:00-3:30 break
- 3:30-4:30 Discussion of recomendations
- 4:30-5:00 Summary - Wrapup - Decide follow-on activity