2018 NSF Cybersecurity Summit Agenda

Tuesday August 21st - Thursday August 23rd, 2018

August 21st

Training Day

8:00am     Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am     Morning and All Day Training Sessions Begin

  • WISE Workshop
  • Industrial Control System Security - Existing Infrastructure and New Designs
  • Setting up a compliance program for CUI
  • Automated Assessment Tools – Theory & Practice
  • Developing Cybersecurity Programs for NSF Projects

10:30am   Coffee Break

11:00am   Training Sessions Resume

1:00pm     Lunch provided

    2:00pm     Afternoon Training Sessions Begin and All Day Training Sessions Resume

    • WISE Workshop
    • Software Engineering Guide for NSF Science
    • Compliance 101: HIPAA, FISMA, NIST 800-171 and GDPR
    • Security Log Analysis Training

    4:00pm    Coffee Break

    4:30pm    Training Sessions Resume

    6:00pm    Sessions End

    Evening:   Dinner on your own


    August 22nd

    Plenary Day 1

    8:00am      Sign-In and Continental Breakfast

    9:00am      Welcome and NSF Address (Jim Marsteller / Amy Friedlander)

    9:30am      Keynote: Von Welch - “Five Years Backwards and Forwards”

    10:30am    Coffee Break (Meet a Student)

    11:00pm    Involving Students in Cybersecurity for CI (Jeremy Straub)

    11:30am    Security Best Practices for Academic Cloud Service Providers (Rion Dooley, Richard Knepper, Mike Lowe)

    12:30pm    Group Photo, Lunch (Lunch provided) and Table Talks:

    • Cybersecurity Research Transition To Practice (TTP): Needs, Solutions and US-EU Collaboration
    • Cybercrime book discussion
    • Industrial Control Systems/SCADA Security

    2:00pm     Silent Librarian (Kim Milford, Brett Zupan)

    2:30pm     Responding to advanced threats as a global community (Romain Wartel)

    3:00pm     XSEDE Lessons Learned (Adam Slagell)

    4:00pm     Coffee Break

    4:30pm     Incident Response Communications (Susan Ramsey, Ashwin Jacob Mathew, Dr. Daniel Massey)

    5:30pm     Open Discussion / Summary of the Day’s Findings (Jim Marsteller, Von Welch)

    6:00pm     Adjourn

    6:30pm    Social @ San Antonio Bar and Grill (200 Swamp Fox Rd, Alexandria, VA)


    August 23rd

    Plenary Day 2

    8:00am     Sign-In and Continental Breakfast

    9:00am     Password Adventures for a VO (Warren Anderson)

    9:30am     A case study on implementing crowdsourced threat intel and active response (Charley Kneifel, Richard Biever)

    10:00am   Evidence Based Cybersecurity (Grayson Harbour)

    10:30am   Coffee Break

    11:00am   Security and Assurance for Research Identities (Jim Basney, Laura Paglione, Steve Tuecke, Romain Wartel)

    12:00pm   Open Discussion / Summary of Summit Findings (Jim Marsteller, Von Welch)

    12:30pm    Adjourn