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What people are saying about Defence IQ’s cyber conference series

• Obama’s Cyber Coordinator clarifies cyber policy concerns
  Christopher Painter, the US Department of State’s Cyber Coordinator, sits down for a discussion of the key issues with Defence IQ’s Richard de Silva. Here, Painter addresses the White House’s cyber policy when it comes to international partnering and global network protection, and how the private sector is standing head and shoulders above all others when it comes to securing our critical infrastructure.
• Brazil preparing cyber defence for the World Stage
  Lt Gen José Carlos Dos Santos, head of the Brazilian Army’s Cybernetic Centre (CDCiber), explains why his nation’s attention has turned so much to the digital space, as Brazil continues to modernise its entire military. Every new platform will need to be integrated with the network, and that means cyber security is a priority – particularly as all eyes will be on Rio’s World Cup and Olympic Games in just a few years time.
• Austria’s role in European and global cyber defence
  It’s not just the large-scale militaries taking an active approach to cyber defence. Brig Gen Helmut Habermayer is the head of Military Strategy for the Austrian MoD, and outlines the fringe work being advanced by his nation’s armed forces and how this must stand side-by-side with vulnerable infrastructure. Habermayer also discusses resourcing cyber warriors from the ‘black hat’ community and how the new generation is training for cyber defence.
• Trinidad & Tobago’s cyber police force
  Sergeant Amos Sylvester, head of the Trinidad & Tobago Cyber Crime Unit, explains how his department is now being sent across the world to source information, expertise and advice from other leading cyber defence initiatives. Sylvester’s primary concern is to thwart organised crime efforts to strip financial sector of its assets, because, in his own words, “cyber crime touches everyone in society” and must be controlled.
• Risk of grand-scale cyber disaster “increasing every year”
  Robert Lentz once headed the National Computer Security Center under the Reagan administration before it was cancelled in the 1980s. Only now is the US government seeking to catch up on combating the growing cyber threat, which includes the very real risk of a large-scale digital-led conflict. Lentz is now the President of FireEye, a company that is making vital progress in the field of private-public network security, and we find out how the architecture of the company provides such a robust platform.
• Counter-Terrorism for CNI: UK Cyber Policy Today
  How do terrorists fit into the cyber threat? How is the UK addressing the risk to Critical National Infrastructure? Who is ultimately responsible for national cyber defence? Wing Commander Tom Parkhouse, Cyber policy Staff Officer at the MoD, shares his top-level perspective on these issues exclusively with Defence IQ.
• Overview by the US-CCU of the Cyber Campaign against Georgia in August of 2008
  December 2011
  With both Georgian and Russian speakers in attendance at this year’s event, the US Cyber Consequences Unit has taken the opportunity to release its 2009 analysis of the cyber campaign that disrupted critical Georgian systems during the 2008 dispute. This special report finds that the attacks were the activities of independent actors and not of the Russian government, as once suggested by some analysts. However, it raises serious concerns upon which all nations must take action when it comes to the policing and prevention of potentially dangerous hackers, working from within home boundaries. All views and conclusions expressed herein are those of the US-CCU and not of IQPC.
• Defence firms primed for cyber security acquisitions
  December 2011
  Following Raytheon’s acquisition of cyber security firm Pikewerks Corporation, Defence IQ looks at the trend of large defence organisations purchasing or creating cyber defence divisions. Whilst other parts of these companies struggle in the face of budget cuts and cancelled contracts, business in the cyber divisions is often booming.

• Test Your Cyber Defence Knowledge: 10 Questions
  Have you been staying in the loop when it comes to cyber defence news this year? Test your knowledge by answering these 10 questions on developments over the past year. To begin, simply:
  
  1) Download and open the PowerPoint presentation
  2) Press F5 (enter slideshow mode)
  3) Follow the slide instructions
  Good luck!
• China’s Cyber Capability: misconceptions and opportunities
  How advanced is China’s cyber programme? Must today’s cyber warriors learn the Chinese language to be effective? Can NATO ever work with China on network defence? In this frank interview, Bill Hagestad, former LTC with Force Movement Control at the US Marine Corps Reserves, and now one of the most respected outsider authorities on the Chinese information capability provides some straight forward answers to a controversial subject.
• US Army RCERT Director: Defending the virtual front line
  Michael Boyer, Director of RCERT Europe, explains what it takes to lead a team to protect the world’s best equipped army as it is targeted with a huge amount of cyber attacks daily. Boyer provides thoughts on the immediate dangers, why he believes we need a new cyber treaty, and details his recent success stories.
• New Sherriff in Town: Law and order in US CYBERCOM
  LCDR Paul A. Walker of the US Navy’s JAGC is the Operations Law Attorney for US CYBERCOM. He spoke with us this year on several key issues, including the difficulties facing the legal system when dealing with the cyber domain, why he believes concerns over attribution have been overblown, and why he thinks existing rules of engagement and conventions of war can be applied without issue to cyberspace.
• When it Rains: Cloud computing and the impact on network security
  Dr. Steve Purser, Head of the Technical and Competence Department at ENISA, explores the need for governments and industry to work together to mitigate the cyber risk, and the progress already being made. He also looks at cloud computing in terms of risks and benefits when it comes to security.

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