Developing a Unified Approach to Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Conference
Abstract
The Georgia Cyber Center (GCC) requests funds from the Army Research Office to host a two-day Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Conference focused on research related to the protection of critical infrastructure through the cyber domain. The conference title will be ÒDeveloping a Unified Approach to Critical Infrastructure CybersecurityÓ and take place in the third quarter of FY 2021 (April to June 2021). The conference scope is to host up to 300 subject matter experts, senior leaders, and other key stakeholders on-site at the Georgia Cyber Center. Additionally, the GCC will leverage their robust broadband capability to broadcast keynote presentations, panel discussions, and other key events to specific audiences across the globe. The three primary objectives of the conference are to: 1) Proliferate the critical infrastructure cybersecurity community of interest by establishing new, trusted relationships across government, academia, and the private sector 2) Identify common critical infrastructure cybersecurity challenges and propose possible solutions 3) Facilitate strategic partnerships required to better protect critical infrastructure from malicious cyber attacks To accomplish these objectives, the conference will include a combination of research presentations, subject matter expert panels, and focused breakout sessions with defined deliverables. The conference will also include deliberate relationship and team building activities. Additionally, a critical measure of success will be the follow-up discussions, meetings, conferences, exercises, collaborative research, and partnerships that the Georgia Cyber Center will help track and facilitate. Problem Statement: As described in the President s National Infrastructure Advisory Council report titled, "Transforming the U.S. Cyber Threat Partnership," dated December 2019, the United States is not effectively postured to protect critical infrastructure from debilitating cyber-attacks due to poorly designed and defended infrastructure components, a limited understanding of the threat, and a lack of coordinated capacity and capability to prevent or respond to cyber-attacks. The goal of the proposed conference is to help unify disparate capabilities across government, academia, and the private sector, and to help focus our nationÕs research efforts in this critical field. The expected results of the conference are to help form the combined capability and capacity required to defeat the cyber threat to critical infrastructure. The benefit to the military is to leverage a larger community of interest to assist the Department of DefenseÕs mission to protect critical infrastructure through both research efforts and operational actions, and to ensure that adversarial cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure donÕt impede force projection or other CONUS-based military operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 22, 2020
- Source ID
- W911NF2010340
Entities
People
- Michael Nowatkowski
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Medical College of Georgia
- United States Army