The fourth annual Symposium on Cybersecurity Awareness (Awareness IV) mediates the exchange of best practices for cybersecurity awareness campaign deployment at the national and transnational levels – and introduces the latest research in the behavioral factors that contribute to cybercrime’s success – and that can inform cybercrime’s suppression through awareness campaigns and education.
Awareness IV Bucharest’s objectives are to establish strategies for cybersecurity awareness with the development of messaging tools as a form of cybercrime prevention – and to present resources for deployment of national and globalized cybersecurity awareness campaigns.
In this way, STOP. THINK. CONNECT., APWG.EU, European Commission, RO-CERT, the National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics (ICI) and its correspondents worldwide are organizing the larger global cybercrime prevention effort, unifying the development of effective awareness programs through research specific to the larger awareness effort and informed advocacy of these programs.
Join us and be part of this effort to make awareness and education a primary global defense mechanism against cybercrime and other malicious online enterprises!
This year´s symposium is organized with the support of European Commission, Council of Europe, RO-CERT and the ICI and hosted by the European Commission Representation Office in Bucharest.
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Str. Vasile Lascăr, nr. 31, Bucureşti sector 2 Bucharest, Romania
Session/Talk submission: April 18th, 2019
Author notification: May 2nd, 2019
Symposium: June 26-27, 2019
Peter Cassidy
APWG |
Daria Catalui
RO Presidency, Council of the EU |
Matteo Lucchetti
Council of Europe |
Carmen Cirnu
ICI |
Agustí Solanas
APWG.eu |
Foy Shiver
APWG |
Zoriana Dmytryshyna
APWG.eu |
Mihai Rotariu
CERT-RO |
Przemek Jaroszewski
CERT POLSKA |
Manel Medina
UPC |
Marc Rivero
McAfee |
Deadline for submissions was April 18th, 2019. Author notification is planned for May 2nd, 2019
IMPORTANT: Registration is already closed.
The agenda can be downloaded HERE.
Registration
Opening Remarks
Roxana Morea ( European Commission) / Zoriana Dmytryshyna (APWG.eu) / Peter Cassidy (APWG)
Promoting the Rule of Law in Cyberspace: Towards a Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
Alexander Seger
(Council of Europe)
Europol’s Latest Successful Cyber Awareness Campaigns: #CyberScams and Beyond
María Sánchez (EUROPOL – EC3)
Considerations for Developing An Enterprise Security Awareness Program
Monica Price – Think Security (former World Bank)
Coffee break
Building Cyber Awareness for Humanitarian Mission
Fabien Leimgruber (International Committee of the Red Cross)
The Emerging Threat of Deepfake Video and Video Counter-Forensics
Matthew Sorell (University of Adelaide)
Does It Take A Cyber “Pearl Harbor” to Encourage National Cybersecurity Education?
Matthew Pirko (Baylor University)
LUNCH
Rebranding Awareness. Readiness First
Mike Polatsek (CybeReady)
Cyber Safety Awareness Video with Active Participation of Children
Anil Raghuvanshi (ChildSafeNet)
Security Awareness & Escape Rooms – Behind the Scenes of “Hack The Hacker”
Katja Dörlemann (SWITCH)
Para.Piensa.Conéctate Awareness Campaign in Spain: Connect Against Online Gender Violence
Ángel Sola (Cibervoluntarios)
Coffee Break
From Awareness to Resiliency : Leveraging your Security Operations Center for a Holistic Awareness Program
Lauren Lamp (Cofense)
Improving Awareness, Security, and Privacy in Users with DNS
John Bambenek (ThreatSTOP, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Security Awareness Using Virtual Reality
Kavya Pearlman (XR Safety Initiative)
Registration
Opening Remarks
Zoriana Dmytryshyna (APWG.eu)
Romania’s Activities on Cyber Security Awareness
Iulian Alecu (CERT-RO)
Digital Education in Romania
Veronica Stefan (Digital Citizens)
STOP. THINK. CONNECT., Update on Global Campaigns
Peter Cassidy (APWG/STOP.THINK.CONNECT.)
Coffee break
Get the Commonwealth Safe Online – a Case Study
Peter Davies (Get Safe Online)
Oops! It Happened Again!
Righard Zwienenberg (ESET) &
Eddy Willems (G Data)
APWG.eu, Balance of Awareness Activities
Zoriana Dmytryshyna (APWG.eu) & Pablo López-Aguilar (APWG.eu)
LUNCH
Working Together: Using Real Data to Increase Cybersecurity Awareness
Luis Corrons (Avast)
On Response Biases: Revisiting Policy Compliance Measurements
Sebastian Kurowski (Fraunhofer)
Grifting in the Digital Age : Simple Risk Communication for Safer Browsing Through User-Centered Threat Assessment
Sanchari Das (Indiana University Bloomington)
The Human Factor at the Center of a Cyber Security Culture
Sorana Campean (University of Luxembourg)