Cyber Florida

Join Cyber Florida Senior Fellow Stacy Arruda, Founder and CEO of the Arruda Group and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, for an eye-opening experience that will help you better understand how to prevent and recover from cyberattacks. The event starts with Network Noise, a three-hour tabletop exercise where real-world cyberattack scenarios illustrate the far-reaching effects a cyberattack can inflict on your organization. Bring your leadership team to learn how cyberattacks impact not only IT but also legal, finance, operations, human resources, public relations, and other departments.

Once you understand the threat, move on to preparation with a session on creating a comprehensive cyber incident response plan specific to your organization. You’ll leave equipped with a template and foundational plan you can take back to complete and test with your organization.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Pasco Sheriff’s Office.

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Please register in advance for this event using the form below. The registration deadline is December 10, 2023.

Venue & Directions

Forensic Institute for Research, Security, and Tactics
Innovation Building Classroom
10370 Charles Bo Harrison Way, Land O’ Lakes, FL 34637

As China seeks to advance its economic and military interests and challenge the US’s global leadership and influence, it increasingly turns to cyberspace to conduct malicious and disruptive activities against the US and its allies. China’s aggressive and sophisticated cyber operations include stealing sensitive data, intellectual property, and emerging technologies from various sectors, such as defense, health, education, and infrastructure. Now, China is positioning itself to disrupt or damage US critical infrastructure in the event of a geopolitical crisis or conflict. The government, military, private sector, and academia must cooperate to protect their networks and data from Chinese intrusion. This in-person summit will bring cybersecurity scholars, military and academic researchers, and senior military leaders together for a candid discussion of emerging Chinese threats and strategic response options in cyberspace.

Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Christopher Marsh from National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs, the event will include two open-to-the-public panel discussions on different aspects of China’s maneuvers in cyberspace and conclude with a networking lunch.

This event is presented in partnership with the University of South Florida Global and National Security Institute as part of a new series titled, Fifth Domain: CYBR, to examine issues of modern cyberwarfare, bringing the work of academic scholars and researchers to the benefit of military leadership to help inform and guide strategic policymaking.

Note: Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8:00 – 8:30 AM: Check-in

8:30 – 9:00 AM: Welcome Remarks, General (Ret.) Frank McKenzie

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Keynote Address, Dr. Christopher Marsh

10:00 – 11:00 AM: Panel 1: The CCP Consolidation of Power

Moderator: Dr. Mark Grzegorzewski, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Dr. Jongseok Woo, University of South Florida
Dr. Stephan G. Craft, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Dr. June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami
Dr. Chris Reardon, University of New Hampshire

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Panel 2: The CCP as a Rising Strategic Power

Moderator: Dr. Mark Grzegorzewski, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Mrs. Heidi Holz, Center for Naval Analyses
Dean Cheng, United States Institute for Peace
Josiah Case, Center for Naval Analyses
Dr. Peter Pijpers, University van Amsterdam

12:00 PM Networking Lunch

In today's world, almost all activities take place over the internet, such as banking, homework assignments, television programs, phone conversations, and more. While the internet has positively impacted the way we work, learn, and communicate, it is also used by those with malicious intentions.

During this hands-on webinar, experts from Stamus Networks will demonstrate what bad actors do, how malware operates, and how to detect and catch these intrusions. We will also walk through the basic principles of network threat hunting and will demonstrate how to uncover ransomware and Advanced Persistent Threats.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Use Suricata as a monitoring tool
• Chase APTs and malware actors, known and unknown
• Hunt and investigate using open-source tools
• Recognize types of malware, behaviors, and current trends

Agenda:

• Introduction
• Speaker introduction
• Experience/feedback in malware IR/hunting/investigations
• Goal of Network Forensics – purpose and how it’s collected & analyzed
• Overview of Suricata as a monitoring tool
• Pyramid of pain (chasing APTs and malware actors, knowns and unknowns)
• Overview of Ransomware (types of malware, behaviors, current trends)
• Case-study: walk through an example of APT case
• Hunting and investigation: Easiest way to spin up a complete network monitoring distro
• with Suricata for Hunting, teaching and investigations comprised of only open-source tools (docker-based, runs on Linux: Ubuntu/Debian etc)
• Case-study (hands-on): live example of Ransomware malware network traffic
• Free and OSS Resources for malware training , data and investigations
• Q/A

Join us for an engaging discussion on Cybersecurity Careers with Stacey Hatola, VP of Information Security and Privacy at Graham Holdings Company. Stacey Halota joined Graham Holdings Company (then The Washington Post Company) in 2003. She leads the development and implementation of information security and privacy programs, including Sarbanes Oxley, privacy law, Payment Card Industry compliance, and other data protection efforts. She has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology, security, and privacy field. Before joining Graham Holdings, she served as the federal government and southeast region leader of Guardent (now part of Verisign), a security and privacy consulting and managed security services company. Before Guardent, she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Technology Risk Services consulting practice.

Ms. Halota serves on the strategic advisory boards of Y/L Ventures, Cytrio, the Cloud Security Alliance CxO Trust, and Piiano; the Board of Directors of the National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC); and is a Cyversity Ambassador. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).