Cybersecurity Automation – The Path from Sense Making to Decision Making

Invited Lecture by

Ehab Al-Shaer

Date: Dec 10, 2015
Time: 02:15 PM– 03:15 PM
Address: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Florida International University, 10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida 33174
Room: EC-3115

Abstract: The incredible growth of cyber connectivity (e.g., mobility, clouds, IoT and cyber-physical) has significantly increased the potential and sophistication of cyber-attacks. Ensuring validity and effectiveness of cyber configurations (including security policies) is key to enforce secure accessibility, and system hardening for proactive defense. Furthermore, and not less important, is ensuring the agility of the cyber configuration to respond to attacks (or potential threat) and maintain the mission integrity effectively ((i.e., minimize damage) and timely. However, this has been an extremely challenging and daunting task for most enterprises (agencies, institutions, service providers etc), because they often contain thousands-to-millions of physical and/or virtual cyber devices that must be configured correctly, while considering the hidden interdependencies between configurations and services in order to guarantee the secure system behavior.
This talk will present the state-of-the-art techniques and tools to support cybersecurity automation, describe the active community effort within NSF IUCRC CCAA (www.ccaa-nsf.org) in addressing these challenges, and illustrating emerging and future research challenges of cybersecurity automation for active cyber security and resiliency.

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