Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Sahin Albayrak
Chief Executive Director of DAI-Labor
Head of Chair Agent Technology (AOT)
DAI-Labor / Technische Universität Berlin
Towards Autonomous Security
The ubiquity and pervasiveness of contemporary networked systems pose new challenges that can not be met with conventional monolithic approaches. The ever-growing complexity and scale of these systems will render it almost impossible for users or administrators to promptly cope with new types of security threats using conventional methods. In order to mitigate those issues, network security research efforts should focus on new dimensions, for which we coined the term "Autonomous Security".
Autonomous Security deals with the design and implementation of an extensible security framework which is aware of its environment, detects changes in this environment indicating a threat or risk, and makes decisions reacting to them in an intelligent and autonomous fashion. The objective of the framework is to ensure availability and security of business services, to monitor, identify and manage security risks and to protect confidential and critical data. The framework-inherent security mechanisms should assist end users and administrators in dealing with different threats and risks, and allow them to master the complexity of contemporary IT infrastructures.
Biography
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sahin Albayrak is the chair of the professorship on Agent Technologies in Business Applications and Telecommunication (AOT). He is the founder and head of DAI-Labor, currently employing about 100 researchers and support staff. He is a member of "The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" (IEEE), "Association for Computing Machinery" (ACM), "Gesellschaft für Informatik" (German Computer Science Society, GI), and "American Association for Artificial Intelligence" (AAAI).
Prof. Albayrak is one of the founding members of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and currently a member of its steering board. He was the initiator of many reputable research projects, e.g.: E@MC2, Sun-Trec, in which he has been supervising research networks at national and international levels. He is also a member of various industrial and political advisory committees, e.g.: Impulskreis "Vernetzte Welten".
Dr. Detlef Eckert
European Commission, Information Society and Media DG
Information Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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This key note address takes a holistic view of information security. It begins by outlining how we got to where we are today: the history of the Internet and the PC and shows how security concerns have shifted over time and how public security policy has radically changed over the last 20 years.
The Good is that despite some scare mongering about information security, the reality is that the Internet has grown rapidly in both connectivity and usage. Obviously users have been learning to cope with threats. They have learnt much about how to deal with threats by applying sound security policies This does not mean that nothing needs to be done and everything is under control.
The Bad is that today we are faced with an increasing criminalisation of computer attacks, using a combination of techniques. This creates damage, undermines trust, and protecting computers and networks costs money which could be spent otherwise.
The Ugly part is that we face a future with some worrying questions to which we do not yet have answers. Will there be a devastating attack on the Internet? Is cyber warfare a likely scenario for the future? Will our privacy be taken away? Will cyber crime become a real obstacle for the future of the Internet?
The presentation will conclude with an outline of current public policies in this field and some recommendations for future work.
Biography
Detlef Eckert is Senior Advisor to the Director General in the Directorate General “Information Society and Media” of the European Commission in Brussels (Belgium). In this function he deals with strategic issues, research co-operation, and the future of the Internet.
From 2002 to 2006 he took personal leave to work for Microsoft as Director responsible for the implementation of the Trustworthy Computing (TWC) initiative in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Before 2002, Detlef Eckert was Head of Division responsible for analysis and policy planning in the Directorate General Information Society; he launched a number of key policy initiatives that contributed to the full liberalisation of the European telecommunications markets in 1998. Other activities included the launch of the eEurope2002 and 2005 Action Plan, the basis for the EU's new economy strategy, which in the meantime has become the i2010 initiative. He was also responsible for a new network and information security policy at EU level.
Born in Germany, Detlef Eckert graduated from the University of Siegen with a degree in Economics. He also obtained a Doctorate in Economics from the same university where he was assistant professor from 1979 until 1985.
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