18/05/2010 - Cyber Defense in the Context of the New NATO Strategic Concept - Institutul Aspen Romania

Thu, 9th September, 2010
Closed Doors Panel Conference - Cyber Defense in the Context of the New NATO Strategic Concept
June 2nd, 2010 Hotel Athenee Palace Hilton, Le Diplomate Room Bucharest, Romania

DRAFT AGENDA

09:00-09:30 Registration & Coffee

09:30-10:00 OFFICIAL OPENING

Welcome Remarks: Mr. George Maior, Director, National Intelligence Service (SRI)

Introductory speech: NATO high official

10:00 – 11:00 SESSION 1: Virtual but no less deadly – fighting cyber crime at national level

(i) Virtual attack, real impact – patterns and impact of cyber crime and cyber terrorism. Lessons learnt the hard way (Estonian case, other instances)

• the sources of threat: state sponsorship of online aggression and terrorism, international organized crime, specific non-state actors and groups; assessment of the link between cyber crime and cyber terrorism risks
• cyber espionnage against governmental and civilian private sector targets; profiling of targets, victims and officials; open source intelligence and large amounts of data management etc.
• the role of national law enforcement in combating cyber crime and the link to reducing systemic vulnerabilities.

(ii) Legislation challenges and promises; research and academia, contribution to the emergence of competent staff - analysts and security experts for both the private and public sphere.

Moderator: Liviu Mureşan, EURISC

Speakers: Ministry of Interior official
Ministry of Defense special unit official
Foreign Intelligence Service official
Representative of the Special Telecommunications Service
Dumitru Marin, ASE University, Department of Economic Cybernetics, Head of Department
Misha Glenny, Author/Journalist



COFFEE BREAK: 11:00 – 11:30


11:30-12:30 SESSION 2: The business of security, the security of business

(i) How businesses deal with the virtual threat. How they protect themselves, how they build better and more secure systems.

• corporate sector's threat assessment - when economic losses and/or massive hindrance of normal operation of economic processes turn into systemic or societal threat with strategic or tactical implications
• data protection and NATO standards in the field; best practices and institutional expertise - transfer from public to private organizations designed to improve corporate behavior, procedures, standards and protection methodologies.

(ii) sectorial issues: banking, energy, C4 and government and economy related communication infrastructure, media and public communications, telecom, air-traffic management etc.

(iii) The race between security research/innovation and more and more sophisticated weapons of virtual destruction. Who is winning?

• systemic vulnerabilities, technological issues and platform related issues


Moderator: Mr. Cristian Colţeanu, GE Romania

Speakers: Representative of the National Bank of Romania
Octavian Chiţoiu, IT Security Team Leader, Raiffeisen Bank Romania
Raoul Ros, Alcatel Romania, Head of South East Europe Region
Jean Adrian Iacob, Lockheed Martin Global Inc., Executive Director
Donciu Bogdan – ROMATSA, President – General Director
Claudia Vîrlan- Romanian Civil Aeronautical Authority, General Director
Adrian Băicuşi- Transelectrica, General Director

12:30 – 13:00 Q&A

13:00 – 14:00 BUFFET LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00 SESSION 3: International front against a globalised threat

Keynote speaker: Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, Director SIE

(iii) Countering the threat – tackling cyber crime through an integrated approach (police cooperation, intelligence etc)

• The limits of national approach and the benefits of international cooperation: the experience of NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) the Incident Management Section of NATO HQ in Mons, and the Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Estonia (CCDCOE)
• civil military cooperation, interagency cooperation and best practices in the field of incident management; early warning and monitoring of threat patterns.



Moderator: Romanian official, NATO specialized unit

Speakers: Suleyman Anil, NCIRC Coordination Centre, Head
Greg Austin, EastWest Institute, Vice President of Program Development and Rapid Response
Ilmar Tamm, Director, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
US Embassy Expert
French Embassy Expert
Turkish Embassy Expert

15.30 – 16.00 Q&A

15.30 – 16.00 Closing remarks Mircea Geoană, President Aspen Institute Romania