Protecting the Net From Advanced Persistent Threats
Channel: New America
Date: 02/03/2015

Kevin Bankston (Moderator) - Policy Director – Open Technology Institute, New America
Alex Stamos - Chief Information Security Officer, Yahoo!
Morgan Marquis-Boire - Director of Security, First Look Media
Cheri McGuire - Vice President – Global Government Affairs & Cybersecurity Policy, Symantec
Angela McKay - Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy, Microsoft

The internal networks of Internet companies, retailers, financial institutions, nonprofits and even the entertainment industry and the Fourth Estate are now dealing with near-constant Advanced Persistent Threats. When nearly every major institution is at risk of targeted attacks by well-resourced players--be they states, organized crime, or a mix of both--that have resources to direct sustained, sophisticated hacking campaigns for financial or political gain, what is our best defense? How should the targets, the security vendors that assist them, and the policymakers that serve them react to an ever more hostile Internet environment that's starting to look more like a failed state than the info-utopia we once envisioned? And how do we combat these threats while also preserving the openness of the Internet and the privacy of Internet users?

In addition to featuring keynote remarks by Admiral Mike Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, this event will convene experts and practitioners from the public and private sector, military, media, academia, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations for a series of discussion panels and first person “pop-up” style speeches on the wide range of cybersecurity issues that are affecting and infecting everything from personal devices and corporate networks to national defense and international affairs. The focus of the event will be to push past the status quo and instead explore the next generation of challenges, as well as highlight bold, new ideas to face them. CNN is the event’s media partner and will provide a live-stream of the event.

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http://www.newamerica.org/new-america/cybersecurity-for-a-new-america/