We are delighted to announce InfraGard Florida – Tampa Bay Area Members Alliance as our symposium co-sponsor!
Join us for a two-day symposium hosted by Cyber Florida in partnership with the University of South Florida and InfraGard to bring together academic researchers, industry practitioners, and law enforcement professionals to examine the latest intelligence on emerging cybercrime threats. The symposium will serve as a platform for connecting, information-sharing, and problem-solving as these three groups—practitioners, researchers, and law enforcement—work together to mitigate the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape. Agenda coming soon!
Confirmed Speakers
In no particular order. More speakers and presentation information to come!
Keynote Speaker TBA
The Cyberwar between Russia & Ukraine
LTC ret. Zbigniew Nowak, PhD, and Katarzyna Chałubińska-Jentkiewicz, PhD; Academic Center for Cybersecurity Policy, War Studies University, Poland
How basic is Hackers’ Playbook? Studying Attacks on our RDP Honeypots
Andréanne Bergeron, Ph.D, Cybersecurity Researcher / Chercheure en cybersécurité, GoSecure
Darknet Ecosytem: Selling Stolen Identities Online
C. Jordan Howell, PhD, and George Burruss, PhD, University of South Florida
Leveraging “Insurability”
Joey Hernandez CISM, CISSP, InfraGard Financial Services Sector Chief and Team Lead for Dell/Secureworks North American Proactive Services
ISP Spamming: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
Mark Clancy, Founder Cyber Risk Research and former CISO of Sprint and DTCC, and Khalid Akanbi, Cyber Security Analyst
New Reputation-Based Mining Paradigm: Incentivizing Blockchain Miners to Avoid Dishonest Mining Strategies
Mehrdad Nojoumian, Associate Professor, Director of the Privacy, Security & Trust in Autonomy Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University
Call to Arms: A Plan for Protecting Critical Infrastructure in the United States i.e. How to Eat an Elephant
Michael W. Ritchie, President InfraGard – Tampa Bay Members Alliance and Principal, Germinal: Consulting Services & Custom Product Development
State of Cybersecurity from Those Tasked with Defending It
Nick Biasini, Head of Outreach, Cisco Talos
Employing Zero Trust Architecture for Electric Utilities
Steve Lindsay, Director, Critical Infrastructure Initiatives, XTec
The Fraud Triangle and Cryptocurrency: Unpacking the Relationship between Cryptocurrency and Financially Motivated Cybercrimes
Thomas Dearden, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Virginia Tech
Hello, You’ve Been Hacked: A Study of Victim Notification Preferences
Caitlyn Muniz, PhD, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
Thick as Thieves: How Criminal Relationships Form on the Darknet
Samantha Tucker, PhD, Cyber Operations Analyst, MITRE
Machine Learning and Forensic Analysis of Photo Thumbnails
Shahrzad Sayyafzadeh on behalf of Dr. Hongmei Chi, Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University