8:00 AM Check-In and Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome Remarks
George Burruss, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair, University of South Florida Department of Criminology
Ernie Ferraresso, Director, Cyber Florida
9:15 AM Keynote Address: The Global Cyber Threat
General (Ret.) Frank McKenzie, Executive Director, Cyber Florida
10:00 AM 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
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM 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
11:45 AM State of Cybersecurity from Those Tasked with Defending It
Nick Biasini, Head of Outreach, Cisco Talos
12:30 PM Networking Lunch & Student Poster Session
1:30 PM The Cyberwar between Russia & Ukraine
LTC ret. Zbigniew Nowak, PhD, and Katarzyna Chałubińska-Jentkiewicz, PhD; Academic Center for Cybersecurity Policy, War Studies University, Poland; Dr. Ryszard Szpyra, Professor of social sciences, head of doctoral studies at the National Defense University; and Dr. Oleg Gushchyn, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Military Institute.
2:15 AM Employing Zero Trust Architecture for Electric Utilities
Steve Lindsay, Director, Critical Infrastructure Initiatives, XTec
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Thick as Thieves: How Criminal Relationships Form on the Darknet
Samantha Tucker, PhD, Cyber Operations Analyst, MITRE
4:00 PM Hello, You’ve Been Hacked: A Study of Victim Notification Preferences
Caitlyn Muniz, PhD, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
9:00 AM Welcome to Day 2
George Burruss, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair, University of South Florida Department of Criminology
9:15 AM Darknet Ecosystem: Selling Stolen Identities Online
C. Jordan Howell, PhD, and George Burruss, PhD, University of South Florida
10:00 AM How basic is Hackers’ Playbook? Studying Attacks on our RDP Honeypots
Andréanne Bergeron, Ph.D, Cybersecurity Researcher / Chercheure en cybersécurité, GoSecure
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM The Web: A Doubled-Edged Sword
Amin Kharraz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Systems Security Lab at Florida International University
11:45 AM 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
12:30 PM Networking Lunch & Student Poster Sessions
1:30 PM Current Trends in Fraud
Supervisory Special Agent Keith Givens, Federal Bureau of Investigation
2:15 PM Leveraging “Insurability”
Joey Hernandez CISM, CISSP, InfraGard Financial Services Sector Chief and Team Lead for Dell/SecureWorks North American Proactive Services
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM 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
4:00 PM Machine Learning and Forensic Analysis of Photo Thumbnails
Shahrzad Sayyafzadeh, Florida A&M University