Agenda
CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Thursday 31st May 2012
8:30 Registration, Welcome coffee & networking
9:00 Opening remarks from Chair
9:05 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE 
Adapting to Changing risk environments - How resilient is my organisation?
Dawn Cappelli, Technical Manager, Enterprise Threat & Vulnerability Management at the CERT Insider Threat Center,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
9:45 How do we prioritise cyber security investment across sectors from a national perspective?
- Categorising and preparing for the varying elements of cyber warfare
Jeremy Lindeyer, Senior Associate, Booz & Company Pty Ltd
10:20 What keeps me awake at night?
Examining the top 5 cybercrime developments of recent time that keeps AusCERT awake at night and how these have the potential to impact on national security, public safety and confidence in the online environment
Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCert
10:55 Morning tea
11:20 A role for industry in australia’s cybersecurity
- The key role for Australian defence industry in hardening company networks as well as products and sharing the expertise with customers
- How industry can assist with the scale and intensity of the challenge
- Some of the essential elements for Australian industrial capability in cybersecurity
- The new profession - developing a cyber workforce for Australia
Tim Scully, CEO stratsec & Head of Cyber Security, BAE Systems Australia
12:00 An agenda for australia’s future cyber security
- Establishing cyber security as a national imperative
- Building a national cyber capability
- Addressing the cyber security gaps
- Cyber security industry consortium
- More open discussion on cyber weapons
Dr Gary Waters, Head of Strategy, Jacobs Australia, and co-author of 'Optimising Australia's Response to the Cyber Challenge'
12:45 Lunch
1:45 PANEL DISCISSION
To what extent is traditional warfare changing
> The impacts of cyber warfare on traditional warfare
> How independent are they of each other?
> Measuring military strength on the strength of cyber warriors
2:20 Securing Defence as a cyber priority
• Increasing threats to security through improved infrastructure
• How do broadband speeds and increased bandwidth affect security of systems?
• What can the Government do to improve security?
• Where do the security responsibilities lie?
Alastair MacGibbon, Director, Centre for Internet Safety at the University of Canberra
2:55 Afternoon tea
3:20 Cyber terrorism
- Defending Australia from foreign cyber espionage
- What Defence Intelligence has found so far
- Where does the threat originate from and what is the purpose?
- Who is most at risk?
Milton Baar, Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Macquarie University
3:55 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
Organisational structures and doctrine evolution in the face of the cyberspace war fighting domain
> What does Cyberspace mean to the national security strategist?
> How will Cyberspace enable the elements of national power?
> What are the key elements of a Cyber force structure?
Dr Dan Kuehl, Information Resources Management College (IRMC), US National Defense University
4:40 Closing remarks from the Chair
Networking drinks
CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Friday 1st June 2012
8:30 Morning coffee & networking
9:00 Opening remarks from Chair
9:05 > ASIO keynote
How can we define cyber attacks?
Kerri Hartland, Deputy Director-General, ASIO
9:40 The role of the Defence Signals Directorate
• What tools does the DSD have to help protect the countries electronic borders?
• How does the DSD work with other intelligence agencies to help protect Australia?
• How can Defence better protect itself from the threat do future cyber attacks?
• Ensuring the private sector has protection from cyber threats
Joe Franzi, Assistant Secretary, Information Security Operations, Defence Signals Directorate
10:15 Morning tea
10:45 Challenges of developing a secure and userfriendly information environment
Greg Farr, Chief Information Officer Defence, Chief Information Officer Group
11:20 Government as a partner in australian cyber security
- How should the government be responding?
- Intertwining Defence and Government to protect cyber space
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Resilience - part of a secure cyber environment
- Security as by-product of organisational resilience
Geoff Rhodes, Senior Consultant, Saltbush Consulting
1:35 New applications and evolving technology in Defence
Prof Vijay Varadharajan, Director, Information and Networked Systems Security (INSS) Research, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
2:10 Afternoon tea
2:40 Espionage: the World’s Second oldest Profession has a Makeover
Not only has "conventional" espionage expanded from the hard-core strategic, military and political targets to scientific, technical, commercial, business, industrial, economic and communications targets, but with our increasing dependence on cyberspace and sophisticated communications systems, cyber-espionage has now emerged a major new security threat. What are the implications of these changes for Australia? What can be done to minimise the increasing threats in this area?
John McFarlane, Associate Investigator, Australian Research Centre Centre for Excellence in Policiing and Security (CEPS), Australian National University and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Policing, Security and Counter-Terrorism (PICT), Macquarie University
3:15 Developing a competitive cyber domain in Defence Industry
- Serving the changing national security demands in Australia
- Developing capability in conjunction with government initiatives
- Protecting Industry’s intelligence as well as national Defence demands
3:50 Closing remarks from Chair
4:00 End of conference
