[Air-L] Legal and Policy Dimensions of Cybersecurity: Update and Deadline Extended

[Richard Denny Taylor]

Colleagues,

 

Kindly note the following update with keynote speaker and extended
deadline.  Thank you.

 

Richard

 

Legal and Policy Dimensions of Cybersecurity

 

Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Thomas I. Vanaskie

Circuit Judge for The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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A by-invitation experts' workshop to be held at

George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs 

September 28-29, 2016

 

The security of information networks and databases is now a critical
element of national security and economic competitiveness. Rapid growth in
e-commerce, banking, and communication systems and the Internet of Things
(IoT) has increased efficiency and driven economic growth, but by
necessity these systems preclude consumers' control over how and where
their data are collected, archived and processed. Recent high-profile
breaches of security at banks and retailers, coupled with secret and
not-so-secret efforts by foreign governments and rogue actors to attack
critical information infrastructures, have heightened these concerns.
Legal and policy responses to the cybersecurity challenge are just as
important as technological ones. 

 

To focus much-needed attention on this field of study, the IIP invites
authors to submit abstracts by July 25, 2016 addressing the policy and
legal aspects of information security, privacy, data protection,
cybersecurity-related legislation, and critical cyber-infrastructure
protection. Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present and
discuss them during a 2 day by-invitation-only experts workshop held at
the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs on
September 28-29 (Wed.-Thu.), 2016. Each paper will be assigned a
respondent recruited from the local academic/policy/advocacy communities
and will be allotted a full hour for presentation, response and
discussion. A reception and formal dinner provide room for social
interaction. This year the workshop is privileged and grateful to have
United States Court of Appeals Circuit Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie in
attendance and as Keynote Speaker. Judge Vanaskie is one of the leading
and most prominent federal jurists in developing the United States Courts'
information and technology policies.   

 

This workshop is thirteenth in a series of workshops organized by the IIP
since 2011, in support of its Journal of Information Policy, published by
the IIP in partnership with the Penn State University Press (
<http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JIP.html>
http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JIP.html). Presenters at the
workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers for peer review
to the Journal, with the successful papers presented in special issues
dedicated to each workshop. The JIP has previously conducted workshops on
a variety of topics including the future of broadband policy, digital
diversity, new ICTs and democracy, media policy and advocacy, campaign
funding and media, intellectual property, and more. For programs of
previous workshops see:
<http://comm.psu.edu/research/centers/iip/conferences-and-worskhops>
http://comm.psu.edu/research/centers/iip/conferences-and-worskhops.

 

Possible topics for the workshop include the following: 

 

.      Critical infrastructure protection, including information and
energy networks

.      Cybersecurity policies and governance in nation states

.      Cybersecurity policies and governance in transnational
organizations

.      Threats and vulnerabilities to cybersecurity and the policies they
invoke

.      Information policy and cybersecurity in the age of IoT

.      Data breaches and the law - regulation, enforcement, protection,
and damages

.      Cybersecurity and U.S. courts 

.      Cybersecurity and privacy legislation-federal and state efforts to
balance cyber security and civil liberties

.      The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and consumer online data
protection enforcement-efforts, failures, future models

.      The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and web-based data
regulation 

.      Consumer data protection - an international legal and diplomatic
conundrum 

.      The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) 

.      Cybersecurity models

.      Cybersecurity management

.       Cybersecurity concerns and democracy

.      Strategic planning and security strategy

.      History of cybersecurity policy and governance

.      Security education, training and awareness

.      The future of cybersecurity: uncertainties and scenarios

 

This workshop is made possible with financial contributions from the Penn
State Colleges of Communications, Information Sciences and Technology, and
Law, and the Office of the Provost, and with organization assistance from
the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs.

 

Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be
submitted to  <mailto:pennstateiip at psu.edu> pennstateiip at psu.edu by July
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Please write IIP_CYBERSECURITY: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Presenters
will be notified by August 15, 2016 regarding acceptance. Accepted papers
will need to be submitted by September 19, 2016. 




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Thomas Vanaskie was sworn in as a Circuit Judge for the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on April, 28, 2010. Prior to his
appointment to the Third Circuit, Judge Vanaskie was appointed by the U.S.
President to the United States District Court for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania, where he served for 16 years, seven of those years as Chief
Judge. In 2005, the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appointed
Judge Vanaski to serve as Chair of the Judicial Conference Information
Technology Committee, where he served until 2008. Judge Vanaskie presently
serves on the Third Circuit Judicial Council's Information Technology
Committee. The Judge is also presently appointed to serve on the Space and
Facilities Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the
policy-making body for all of the United States Courts. Judge Vanaskie
attended Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, receiving his
Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, in 1978. Judge Vanaskie is currently an
Adjunct Law Professor at Penn State and Dickinson Law Schools, where he
teaches Electronic Evidence.

 <applewebdata://7452E21F-90FE-4865-9138-B1C5C4EFE84D#_ftnref2> [2] Note:
the abstract submission deadline has been extended to July 25, 2016