Jan. 29  Guest Speaker

Byoungyoung Lee
PhD Candidate, College of Computing

PhD Candidate Byoungyoung Lee presents a summary of cybersecurity research results and accomplishments while at Georgia Tech.

Abstract: Many system components and network applications are written in unsafe programming languages that are prone to memory corruption vulnerabilities. To combat countless catastrophes from these vulnerabilities, there have been many defense research efforts. However, these were largely limited because their techniques focused on certain negative side effects from those vulnerabilities. As a result, there have been many unfortunate cases when security holes in these mitigation solutions are later uncovered, and significantly thwart the security of underlying systems. In this talk, I'll present a protection system which completely eliminates the root cause of those vulnerabilities. Specifically, I have targeted two popular and emerging vulnerabilities, use-after-free and bad-casting, each of which can be addressed with protection systems that I developed as a student at Georgia Tech: DangNull and CaVer, respectively. Since DangNull and CaVer directly fix the origin of such issues, they do not leave any security holes that attackers could abuse in the future.
DangNull and CaVer have been recognized by both academia and industry for their highly practical impacts: Facebook and USENIX awarded the Internet Defense Prize, and CSAW awarded the "best applied security research paper." Meanwhile, Google and Mozilla deployed DangNull and CaVer, respectively, in their development infrastructures.

Lunch provided. No registration necessary.

Spring 2016 Schedule
Jan. 15 — Opening discussion
Jan. 22 — Milos Prvulovic
Jan. 29 — PhD Candidate - Byoungyoung Lee
Feb. 5 — TBD
Feb. 12 — TBD
Feb. 19 — NDSS Conference Preview -  Chengyu Song, Wei Meng
Feb. 26 — Stephen Pair, co-founder and CEO, BitPay
Mar. 4 — Frank Wang, coordinator, The Cybersecurity Factory
Mar. 11 – David Formby, Xiaojing Liao
Mar. 18 – TBD
Mar. 25 – Spring Break
Apr. 1 – TBD
Apr. 8 – TBD
Apr. 15 – TBD
Apr. 22 – Closing session

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Mar. 4  Guest Speaker

Frank Wang
Coordinator, The Cybersecurity Factory

Frank Wang is a PhD student at MIT focusing on building secure systems. He did his undergraduate at Stanford, focusing on cryptography. He runs the MIT security seminar and is a member of the student team at Roughdraft Ventures, which provides small capital to early stage student startups. He has interned at the security teams at Google and Facebook as well as consulted for various security companies, such as Qualys.

Abstract: Security has become a hot topic given recent hacks of major corporations, like Sony, Home Depot, and Anthem. However, those hacks were easily preventable with the correct technology. The problem is that many times, security research is not being properly commercialized. In this talk, learn about some cutting-edge security research being done in universities, their barriers to adoption, and the need to bridge the gap between academia and industry -- motivating the formation of a cybersecurity accelerator focused on students, The Cybersecurity Factory. 

Lunch provided. No registration necessary.

Spring 2016 Schedule
Jan. 15 — Opening discussion
Jan. 22 — Milos Prvulovic
Jan. 29 — PhD Candidate - Byoungyoung Lee
Feb. 5 — NDSS Conference Preview
Feb. 12 — NDSS Conference Preview
Feb. 19 — NDSS Conference Preview
Feb. 26 — Stephen Pair, co-founder and CEO, BitPay
Mar. 4 — Frank Wang, coordinator, The Cybersecurity Factory
Mar. 11 – Sivakumar "Siva" Raghupathy, director, CREATE-X
Mar. 18 – David Formby, Xiaojing Liao
Mar. 25 – Spring Break
Apr. 1 – Capital One
Apr. 8 – TBD
Apr. 15 – TBD
Apr. 22 – Closing session

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Every year, security experts see new evolutions in cyberthreats to people, businesses and governments. Our adversaries know no boundaries. Cybersecurity is everyone's business.

The annual Summit features breakfast, lunch, keynote speeches, panel discussions, and more. All attendees at this full-day summit receive a copy of the 2017 Cyber Threats, Trends & Technologies Report.

Registration is closed.

Morning

9:30 a.m.
Keynote by Keynote by Annie Antón, chair, School of Interactive Computing; director, ThePrivacyPlace.org

10:00 a.m.
Meet the Students / Fall '16 Demo Day

11:00 a.m. - Noon
Panel: “Partners in Crisis? Legislation has yet to improve information sharing”
Evan Glover, senior counsel, GE Transportation
Paul Huesken, chief information assurance officer, Coca-Cola
Lee Kirschbaum, special agent, FBI
Jimmy Lummis, associate director, Georgia Tech Cyber Security

Afternoon

1:30 p.m.
Keynote by Tom Fanning, chairman, president & CEO, Southern Company

Breakout Sessions

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
TRACK A: “Ransomware: How to respond”
Chris Smoak, division chief, Cyber Technology & Information Security Lab, GTRI
Evan Downing, Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech

TRACK B: “The Cyber Policy Landscape at Home & Abroad”
Klaus Brisch, partner, DWF Germany
Rick Stewart, director of cyber security services, CGI Federal of Canada
Peter Swire, associate director of policy, Institute for Information Security & Privacy

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
TRACK A: “Cryptocurrency: Current and future state of dark money”
Mark Ray, PwC, director, Cyber Investigations and Breach Response
SSA Chad Hunt, FBI Atlanta – Computer Intrusion Squad
Michael Farrell, chief research scientist, CTISL – GTRI

TRACK B: “Cybersecurity: Not just the IT department’s problem”
COL Alprentice Smith, Joint Functional Component Command Headquarters, U.S. Army Cyber Command
Leo Mark, associate dean, Georgia Tech Professional Education
Taesoo Kim, assistant professor, School of Computer Science