09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

09:10 Distinction Between Terrorists’ Use Of The Internet, Cyber Attack And Cyber Terrorism

• Limitations, constraints and difficulties in responding to cyber threats
• Analysis of current cyber terrorism threats to understand cyber risks
• Understanding cyber terrorism threats

Major Julian Charvat
Course Director for Cyber Terrorism
NATO Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism

09:50 UK MoD: Moving Computer Network Defence (CND) To An Operational Footing

• CND: The operational imperative
• CND within Information Assurance (IA)
• CND within Computer Network Operations
• The layered approach

Colonel Duncan Warne
Deputy Director, Command Battlespace Management, J6
UK MoD

10:30 Cross Border Information Sharing With Secure One-Way Data Transfer Systems

• The information assurance imperative while protecting network domain security levels
• How today’s variety and quantity of data overrun legacy data transfer systems
• Hardware-enforced data diode design, and application software, insert a “protocol break” between standard IP communication networks: Cross-domain and cross-border

Dr Ron Mraz
President and CTO
Owl Computing Technologies Inc.

11:20 Challenges Of Combating Botnets As ‘Key Infrastructures’ For Cyber Attacks

• German national plan for the protection of the information infrastructures
• Implementation plans for the federal government and Critical Infrastructures
• Botnets: How they work
• Challenges for a national security strategy and solutions
• What's next?

Dr Thomas Ramsauer
Division of IT Security
Federal Ministry of Interior Germany

12:00 Establishing Policy Within Cyberspace As The 5th War Fighting Domain

• Current situation and cyber activity against the US
• Need for reform on cyberspace policy?
• Technical development to match evolving policy

Colonel Glenn Zimmerman
Cyber Space Task Force
US DoD

13:30 Shifting Battle Lines: Cyber-War Scenarios And Implications

• The home-front as battlefield
• The privatisation of warfare
• Cyber-warfare strategies in the arsenal of states
• Potential terrorist use of Cyber-warfare
• Lessons learned from past incidents; how worried should we be?

Yael Shahar
Director, Database Project Institute for Counter-Terrorism
IDC Herzliya

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Are Defence Efforts Of The Past Century Irrelevant In Today’s Networked World?

• Potential scales of cyber attack and theory of Cyber War era
• Assessment of possible impact of sizable attack
• Considerations for ensuring precautions against the threat

15:40 Organisational Structures And Doctrine Evolution In The Face Of The Cyberspace War Fighting Domain

• How are you going to provide defence against the concept of cyber attacks?
• What are the necessary personnel structures to effectively retain cyberspace control and security?
• Evolving your software and hardware capabilities to meet the modern cyber threat

Dr Dan Kuehl
Information Resources Management College (IRMC)
US National Defense University

16:20 Over Reliance On The Appliance: A Case Study Of Cyber Resources In The Field

• Technology and applied science as the saviour of the West's military?
• 9/11 and asymmetric warfare
• Over Reliance on IT resources: Iraq case study
• Successful marriage of cyber and psychological resources

Declan Power
Security and Defence Analyst

17:00 End Of Conference