The Academic Conference

The Academic Perspective on Cybersecurity Challenges

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Agenda:

09:00-10:00

Gathering & Refreshments

10:00-10:30

Opening Remarks

	Dr. Yaniv Harel, Conference Chairman and Head of Research Strategy, Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), Tel Aviv University
	Prof. Yaron Oz, Rector, Tel Aviv University
	Dr. Tal Steinherz, Chief Technological Officer, Israel National Cyber Bureau
10:30-11:45	First Session: Privacy & Law
	Privacy by Design by Government Chair: Prof. Michael Birnhack, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
	*It’s Too Complicated: The Conflict between the Technological Implications of IP-Based Communications and US Surveillance Law* Prof. Susan Landau, Professor of Cybersecurity Policy, Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
	The Privacy of Cell Phone Data Prof. Susan Freiwald, Professor of Law and Dean's Circle Scholar, Universitry of San Francisco
	Redefining Cybersecurity Prof. David Thaw, Assistant Professor of Law and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh and Affilliated Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
11:45-12:45	Second Session: Encryption & Decryption
	Chair: Dr. Yaniv Harel, Conference Chairman and Head of Research Strategy, Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), Tel Aviv University
	*BabelCrypt: The Universal Encryption Layer for Mobile Messaging Applications* Prof. Engin Kirda, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University and Director of Northeastern Information Assurance Institute
	Dr. Eran Tromer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
	*Secure Containers in Android: the Samsung KNOX Case Study* Prof. Avishai Wool, Deputy Director of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), Tel Aviv University
12:45-13:30	Break & Lunch
13:30-15:00	Third Session: Behavioral Aspects of Cybersecurity
	The User Side of Cybersecurity: Quantitative Models and Behavioral Experiments Chair: Prof. Joachim Meyer, Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University
	*Choice Architectures and Their Effects on Privacy and Security Decisions* Dr. Eran Toch, Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University
	Provocations on Privacy Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, Founding Director of the Center for Internet Research, University of Haifa
	Charting the Uncivil and Postwestern Cyber Westphalia Changing Interstate Power Relations Dr. Chris Demchak, RADM Grace M. Hopper Professor of Cybersecurity and Co-Director of the Center for Cyber Conflict Studies (C3S), U.S. Naval War College
15:00-16:30	Forth Session: Cybersecurity Technologies
	Chair: Dr. Yaniv Harel, Conference Chairman and Head of Research Strategy, Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), Tel Aviv University
	Winning the DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge Prof. V.S Subrahmanian, Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland and Head of the Center for Digital International Government
	Cryptographic Enforced Control Flow Integrity Prof. Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Applied Cryptography Group and Co-Directs of the Computer Security Lab, Stanford University
	Prof. Yuval Shavitt, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
	Semantic Based Security Analysis Prof. Thambipillai Srikanthan, Head of the Computer Science Department and Executive Director of the Cybersecurity Research Center, Nanyang Technological Univesity (NTU)
	IoT Security Prof. Yuval Elovici, Professor in the Department of Information Systems Engineering and Head of the Cyber Security Research Center, Ben Gurion University
16:30-17:30	Posters Exhibition

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