Purpose of the Symposium

Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Center for Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (CCIA) is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual Symposium on Law Enforcement and Cyber Defense to be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 in Lenfell Hall, The Mansion of the Florham Campus. This year’s theme is Law Enforcement and Cyber Defense indicating how government authorities and the private sector partner to prevent, detect, and mitigate cyber threats and crimes. The forum will feature distinguished speakers offering their perspectives on security threats, business continuity, and forensics from local law enforcement authorities to national level and beyond. Our Keynote Speaker, Sherrill Nicely, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Central Intelligence Agency will share her extensive experience in information security, and ideas on the important roles security personnel, private citizens and academics need to play to avoid major cyber disasters. Attendees will predominantly include government, law enforcement, and academic representatives, and is open to the public.

Panel Discussion: Generation Z refers to the cohort of people born after the Millennial Generation. They are the first generation that has been "always connected to the internet", using “social media” for instant communication, and were raised with touch devices. They form the pipeline of the future Cyber Scientists and Technologies. Cyber-attacks are for real and Generation Z is seeing and hearing about them. The panel will describe some recent cybercrimes and how they were mitigated. The panelists will discuss ways to motivate and engage Generation Z into defending against future attacks and investigating cyber-crimes. It is imperative that the educationists need to make the cyber defense training highly interactive, experiential, and “on the go.” Every new “cyber-attack” leads to new learnings. How will government and industry help in bringing out the “new learnings” in a timely manner and accelerate this transition to “interactive training”?

Student Competition: Undergraduate and graduate students from several Universities and 4- and 2-year colleges have been invited to compete in a poster competition. Finalists will be asked to showcase and discuss their product(s) with Symposium attendees over the designated midday luncheon/student presentation session.