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9th Annual CyLab Partners Conference Highlights Compelling Research on Vital Issues in Cybersecurity and Privacy

posted by Richard Power
September 19, 2012

A valued benefit of CyLab's corporate partners program, this annual event allows attendees to immerse themselves in numerous CyLab research projects, which offer compelling insights into vital issues, and it also allows them to establish deeper connections with CyLab faculty and students who are not only striving to build the future of cyber security, but may come to embody it as well.

The 9th Annual CyLab Partners Conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University's main campus in Pittsburgh, PA. on Tuesday, October 2nd and Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012.

Attendance is limited, exclusively, to representatives of CyLab's corporate partners and Carnegie Mellon University CyLab.

The event's agenda is built around research updates from over twenty CyLab faculty members, and it covers a broad range of research thrusts from Trustworthy Computing to Usable Privacy and Security, and from Mobility to Software Security, from Secure Next Generation Networks and Internet to Business Risks and Economic Consequences.

Each session includes panel discussions engaging both presenters and attendees.

A valued benefit of CyLab's corporate partners program, this annual event allows attendees to immerse themselves in numerous CyLab research projects, which offer compelling insights into vital issues, and it also allows them to establish deeper connections with CyLab faculty and students who are not only striving to build the future of cyber security, but may come to embody it as well. 

The Partners Conference keynote presentation will be delivered by Dr. Jesse Walker, Principal Engineer in Intel Corporation's Security Research Lab, who will speak on, "Engineering Without A Net."

A comprehensive archive of presentations, videos and posters from this Partners Conference, as well as previous ones, is available exclusively to CyLab partners via the Partners-Only Portal. A small sampling of video excerpts will be released publicly via the CyLab YouTube Channel and CyLab on iTunesU post-conference.

CyLab in the headlines

Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing - May 26, 2013
The study said: "Exchanges handling 275 Bitcoins' worth of transactions each day have a 20 percent chance of being breached, compared to a 70 percent chance for exchanges processing daily transactions worth 5570 Bitcoins." Tyler Moore and Carnegie Mellon CyLab reseacher Nicholas Christin estimate that the median lifespan of any Bitcoin exchange is 381 days, with a 29.9 percent chance that a new exchange will close within a year of opening.

High-volume Bitcoin exchanges less likely to fail, but more likely breached, says study - April 24, 2013
The study analyzed 40 exchanges that buy and sell the virtual Bitcoin to identify factors that trigger or stave off closure, said the study's authors, computer scientists Tyler Moore, in the Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Nicolas Christin, with the Information Networking Institute and Carnegie Mellon CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University. "The risk of losing funds stored at exchanges is real but uncertain," write Moore and Christin.

Identity Theft: It's Not Just for Grownups! - April 23, 2013
Imagine finding out that your eight-year-old has a house in foreclosure thousands of miles away. How about getting collection calls because your young teen is several payments behind on a car loan? These are not far-fetched scenarios. According to a study conducted by Carnegie Melon CyLab, over 10 percent of the children studied reported that someone had used their Social Security number fraudulently.

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May 20, 2013: CERT Training
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June 11, 2013: CERT Training
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This three-day course begins with a brief review of the conceptual foundations of information security. Next, students will be introduced to the CERT Defense-in-Depth Framework: eight operationally focused and interdependent management components which will be synergistically applied to a fictitious organization's Information Technology (IT) enterprise.

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