Academic Perspectives on Cybersecurity Challenges

Academic Perspectives on Cybersecurity Challenges

Conference | English

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

08:30-13:00

- Naftali Building(Room 001)

About

 

Hosted by the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, the event will bring together a fascinating program of talks and panels by leading international speakers and researchers from across the domain to explore the latest developments in cyber research.

 

The event offers a unique opportunity to share ideas and network with like-minded delegates from a diverse range of disciplines that interact within the cyber sphere. It will provide an academic outlook on the dynamic and ever-evolving interdisciplinary cyber research.

 

Agenda

08:30-09:00

Gathering and registration

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Academic conference chairman & Moderator

Dr. Yaniv Harel , Chief Strategy Officer, Blavatnik ICRC, Tel Aviv University , Former GM Cyber Solutions Group, Dell

09:00-09:20

Welcome remarks

Professor Mark Shtaif , Rector , Tel Aviv University

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel , Conference Chairman , Cyber Week ; Director , Blavatnik ICRC, Tel Aviv University

09:20-09:40

Artificial Intelligence for Secure Mobile Edge Computing (MEC): the MUSA approach

Prof. Ernesto Damiani , Director, Center for Cyber-Physical System , Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi ; Professor, Department of Computer Science , Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

09:40-10:00

Guarding the Human Genome: Cybersecurity in an Interconnected Bioeconomy

Dov Greenbaum , Associate Researcher, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University , Director, Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, Reichman University

10:00-10:20

How CEOs can build cyber resilience

Manuel Hepfer , Research Affiliate at Oxford University's Saïd Business School , Head of Knowledge and Insights, Istari Global

10:20-10:40

Security Analytics

Prof. Jin-Song Dong , Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department , National University of Singapore

10:40-11:00

Securing Software Supply Chain through Human-AI Collaboration

David Lo , Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Information and Systems Cluster , School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University

11:00-11:20

Coffee break

11:20-11:40

Cybersecurity when IT meets OT

Prof. Sokratis K. Katsikas , Director , Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors

11:40-12:00

Cloud Auto-scaling Mechanisms Under DDoS Attacks: Yo-Yo Attack and Tandem Attack

Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr , Professor of Computer Science , Tel Aviv University

12:00-12:20

Balancing Privacy and Transparency: Collecting Anonymized Statistics on the Blockchain

Prof. Eran Toch , Co-Director of the Interacting with Technology Lab, Faculty Member of the Department of Industrial Engineering , Tel Aviv University

12:20-12:40

Cyber and the ethics of brain machine interface

Prof. Mina Teicher , Mathematics Department and Brain Research Center , Bar Ilan University

12:40-12:50

Shedding Light on Cybersecurity: Harnessing Photonic Methods for Human Identification and Sensing with Deep Learning and Speckle Patterns

Zeev Kalyuzhner , Researcher and lecturer , Bar Ilan University, The Open University of Israel, Wix.com

12:50-13:00

A Flow is a Set of Packets: A New Approach for Early and Accurate DDoS Detection

Lior Shafir , Ph.D. Network Security Researcher , Tel Aviv University

Speakers

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