12 March 1999

    Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:18:55 -0800 (PST)
    From: Clifford Neuman <bcn@ISI.EDU>
    To: the-computer-security-community@ISI.EDU
    Subject: Workshop on Countering Cyber-Terrorism

    		      Countering Cyber-Terrorism
    			      June 22-23
    		      Marina del Rey, California
          A workshop sponsored by the Information Sciences Institute
    	       of the University of Southern California

    			Call for Participation

    Recent studies warn of Cyber-Terrorism and the vulnerability of our
    computer systems and infrastructure to attack. These reports identify
    damage that determined, knowledgeable, and well-financed adversaries
    could inflict on commercial, government, and military systems.  Such
    attacks would have severe consequences for the public, and in
    particular the economy, which has become dependant on computers and
    communications infrastructure.

    The objective of this workshop is to identify things that should be
    done to improve our ability to detect, protect against, contain,
    neutralize, mitigate the effects of, and recover from cyber-terrorist
    attacks.  Participants are sought from the computer security,
    electronic commerce and banking, network infrastructure, military, and
    counter-terrorism communities, as well as those with experience of
    cyber-terrorist attacks.  Recommendations may suggest research and
    development or operational measures that can be taken.  The workshop
    is NOT a forum for presentation of the latest security systems,
    protocols or algorithms.  The workshop will address the strategies,
    framework, and infrastructure required to combine and incrementally
    deploy such technologies to counter the cyber-terrorist threat.

    Attendance will be limited to approximately 25 participants.
    Participants will be selected on the basis of submitted position
    papers that raise issues for the workshop to discuss, identify threats
    or countermeasures, or propose strategies or infrastructure to counter
    the threat of cyber-terrorism. Position papers should be four pages or
    less in length.  Submissions should be sent in e-mail in Word or PDF
    format, or as ASCII text to cyber-terrorism-ws@isi.edu.

    Please check the web page http://www.isi.edu/cctws for more
    information, including a position paper from the organizers which will
    be available two weeks prior to the submission deadline.

    Important Dates:

      Organizer's Paper Available              April  5, 1999
      Position Papers Due                      April 19, 1999
      Notification of Acceptance               May 1, 1999
      Revised Position Papers Due              May 28, 1999
      Position Papers Available on Web         June 9
      Workshop Dates                           June 22-23

    Organizing Committee:

       Bob Balzer, Information Sciences Institute, Balzer@isi.edu
       Thomas Longstaff, CERT Coordination Center, tal@cert.org
       Don Faatz, the MITRE Corporation, dfaatz@mitre.org
       Clifford Neuman, Information Sciences Institute, bcn@isi.edu