CYBER TERRORISM AS A NEW SECURITY THREAT
ARW Information Sheet
Reference No. 982439
Title: CYBER TERRORISM AS A NEW SECURITY THREAT
Director from NATO country: Dr. Monika Kopcheva, Chairperson of Cybercrime Research Group, Law and Internet Foundation, Center for the Law of ICT (CLICT), 36-B Patriarch Evtimii Blvd., fl. 1, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Tel. (359 2) 988 7360 Fax (359 2) 987 7096
Director from Partner Country: Dr. Volodymyr Golubev, Director, Computer Crime Research Center, Box 8010, Zaporizhzhya 69095, Ukraine
Tel. (380 61) 220 6955 Fax (380 61) 289 1298
Venue: Vitosha Park Hotel, Sofia
Dates: October 27-28, 2006
Key speakers and main presentations:
Key speakers:
Susan W. Brenner, NCR Distinguished Professor of Law &Technology,
University of Dayton School of Law (U.S.)
Speech: “Cyberterrorism: An Evolving Threat”.
Serghei Ohrimenco, DSc, Professor, Chief of the Laboratory of Information Security of the Academy of Economic Studies (Moldova)
Speech: “Acts of Cyberterrorism: Notion, Typology and Possible Countermeasures”.
Volodymyr Golubev, PhD, Director, Computer Crime Research Center (Ukraine)
Speech: “Ukraine’s Experience in Cybercrime Combating and Cyberterrorism Prevention”.
Ian Brown, Research Fellow, University College London (UK)
Speech: “Striking the Balance between Security and Civil Liberties”.
Others:
Richard Power, GS(3) Intelligence &Words of Power (U.S.)
Speech: “The Challenge of Cyberterrorism Awareness and Education: How to Get Past the Hype and Hoaxes to Deliver the Risks and Realities”.
Dario Forte, Adjunct Faculty, University of Milano at Crema (Italy)
Speech: “The Future of Cyber Investigations”.
Joseph Cannataci, Professor, Head of Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire (UK)
Speech: “The Council’s of Europe Cybercrime Convention”.
George Dimitrov, Chairman, Law and Internet Foundation (Bulgaria)
Speech: “Use of Digital Signatures and Other Encryption-Based Technologies for Authentication Purposes”.
Objectives:
To provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from NATO and Partner countries, particularly new (such as Bulgaria) and potential (such as Ukraine) NATO member states, to exchange and formulate new ideas in the field, as well as to establish working contacts and to explore avenues for future cooperation among the region’s leading experts on terrorism and cyber crime. The resulting publication will serve as a medium for disseminating the latest scholarship, ideas and approaches in the area.
Specific topics to be explored will include the interaction between cyber terrorism and organized crime, types of cyber terrorism attacks and risks associated therewith, governments’ cooperation on cyber terrorism combating and prevention, security measures such as authentication and authorization, intrusion detection and integrity verification, data and system protection, risk analysis, cryptography, biometrics, secure e-commerce protocols, wireless networks security, and computer forensics.
Expected benefits for Partner countries:
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe that are only recent (e.g. Bulgaria, Romania) or prospective (e.g. Ukraine, Georgia) NATO members face extreme hardships when fighting cybercrime that is inherently international. In the meantime, for experts in these countries, even meeting each other in person is financially burdensome. This is why the immediate benefit of the proposed workshop will be a unique opportunity for experts from the new NATO member states and Partner countries to exchange their experiences and to exchange ideas with their colleagues from more computer-advanced NATO countries such as Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, where more knowledge and scholarship in the sphere of cybercrime has been accumulated. In the long run, this will assist Partner countries in solving the problems of identifying the nature of cyber terrorism, its causes and social basis, as well as means of its prevention and combating on both national and international levels.
Expected benefits for NATO countries:
As a short-term benefit, experts from NATO countries will profit extensively by hearing about experiences of their colleagues from Partner countries which are typically less advanced in the area of information and communication technologies, but where enforcement is more lax and more socio-economic conditions leading to acts of extremism and terrorism exist. In a more distant future, this will lead to an increasingly uniform understanding of the problems existing in the area of cyber terrorism combat and prevention and approaches to solving them. This will make NATO countries’ Eastern neighbors more stable and predictable partners who share NATO’s values and possibly even meet the requirements for the membership in the Organization.
