Symposium on Cyber Defense Strategies and Responsibilities for Industry - Call for Papers

The Northern Kentucky Law Review and Salmon P. Chase College of Law seek submissions for the third annual Law + Informatics Symposium on February 27-28, 2014.

The focus of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary review of issues involving business and industry responses to cyber threats from foreign governments, terrorists, domestic surveillance, and corporate espionage.

Highland Heights, KY (PRWEB) August 29, 2013

The Northern Kentucky Law Review and Salmon P. Chase College of Law seek submissions for the third annual Law + Informatics Symposium on February 27-28, 2014. The focus of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary review of issues involving business and industry responses to cyber threats from foreign governments, terrorists, domestic surveillance, and corporate espionage. The symposium will emphasize the role of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and industries providing critical infrastructure and the role of corporate leadership in addressing issues of domestic and international surveillance.

The symposium is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants, and students to exchange ideas and explore emerging issues in cybersecurity and informatics law as it applies to corporate strategies and the obligations of business leaders. Interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. Authors and presenters are invited to submit proposals on topics relating to the theme, such as the following:

Cyber Warfare

Rules of Engagement
Offensive and defensive approaches
Responses to state actors
Engagement of non-state actors
Distinguishing corporate espionage from national defense
Proportionality and critical infrastructure
Cyber diplomacy
Cold War footing and concerns of human rights implications

Front Lines for Industry

Responses to FISA court orders
Responses to governmental surveillance requests
Role of regulators such as FERC
Legacy systems and modern threats
NIST guidelines
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Engaging Dept. of Homeland Security
Implications on various industries (electric power, telecommunications and transportation systems, chemical facilities)
Health and safety issues Global Perspectives
Concepts of cyber engagement in Europe
Perception of Internet and social media as threat to national sovereignty
Rules of engagement outside U.S. and NATO
Implications for privacy and human rights
Large scale virus risks such as Stuxnet and Flame
Cyber engagement in lieu of kinetic attacks or as a component of kinetic engagement