Panel by CRE Workshop
Achieving Defensive Asymmetrical Advantage via Technical,
Policy, and Organizational Means
Dr. Paul Nielsen, Director, CMU/SEI
Mr. Bob Cowles, former CISO, SLAC Accelerator National lab
Dr. George Sharkov, Coordinator, Cybersecurity for the
Bulgarian Government
Dr. Rolf Reinema, Head, IT-Security, Siemens
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Cyber economics drives many of the decisions related to cybersecurity by both the defenders and attackers. It determines on the defensive side the technologies and procedures implemented to prevent and respond to cyber-attacks. On the offensive side, it not only determines the type of attack but also the effort expended to ensure its success. In short, it determines the asymmetric balance between the attackers and defenders. The Cyber Resilience Economics workshop will explore effects of cyber economics on this asymmetric balance and examine approaches to shifting adversaries’ current advantage in cyber conflicts in favor of defenders. It will bring together a diverse group of experts to advance the concepts and application of cyber economics as related to asymmetric advantage and cyber resiliency. This includes foundational and applied advances in economics, its effects on asymmetry and resiliency driving the essential system requirements for cyber systems including traditional IT, cloud platforms, cyber-physical systems, and critical infrastructure. This will serve to accelerate the recognition, adoption and application of cyber security resilience within industry, government and academia by addressing the key concerns of how these techniques and technologies can be realized within the practical constraints of cost, risk, and benefit.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Foundations of asymmetric cyber advantage
- Defining practical cyber resiliency
- Technical & architectural approaches to gaining asymmetric advantage
- Metrics, measures, and economics of cyber resiliency & asymmetry
- Optimal balance between resiliency and security
- Adversary economics: assessing the value of impacting the attacker
- Frameworks for ROI analysis (cost, risk, benefit) to guide technology investment (research, development, and utilization)
- Integrated analyses of cyber resiliency & asymmetry with co-dependent infrastructures (e.g., power)
- Cyber resiliency related tools that are guided by economic factors for defender and/or adversary
- Use cases or case studies for defender and/or adversary that include economic factors
Proceedings
At least one
author of each accepted paper (including panelists’ position statements) must
register with the full fee and present at the workshop in order for the paper to be included in
the QRS 2016 Supplemental Proceedings. Papers will also be submitted to the
IEEE Xplore database and indexed by all the abstracting and indexing partners
(such as the EI Compendex).
Journal Special Issue (TBA)
Best Paper Award
At least one
award will be presented. Authors will receive a certificate signed by the President
of the IEEE Reliability Society and the Organizers of CRE 2016.
Panelists Solicitation (TBA)
Important Dates
April 29, 2016 (Extended) | Submission deadline |
May 25, 2016 | Notification to authors |
June 10, 2016 | Camera-ready copies |
August 1-3, 2016 | Workshop |
Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other publications and conferences are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals and review process can be found at http://paris.utdallas.edu/qrs16/.
The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to eight pages, including the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and up to 6 keywords.
Authors must follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop. Arrangements are being made to publish selected accepted papers in reputable journals. The submissions must be in PDF and uploaded to the conference submission site.

Program Chairs
Nick Multari | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | USA |
Jeffrey Picciotto | MITRE Corp | USA |
Steering Committee
Deborah J. Bodeau | MITRE Corp | USA |
Richard Graubart | MITRE Corp | USA |
David Manz | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | USA |
Rosalie McQuaid | MITRE Corp | USA |
Tyler Moore | University of Tulsa | USA |
Christopher Oehmen | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | USA |
Pradeep Ramuhalli | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | USA |
Program Committee
Dan Adams | DARPA | USA |
Ehab Al-Shaer | University of North Carolina Charlotte | USA |
Yair Amir | John Hopkins University | USA |
Marco Carvalho | Florida Institute of Technology | USA |
Rich Colbaugh | Periander | USA |
Dipankar Dasgupta | University of Memphis | USA |
Jim Davis | Iowa State University | USA |
Summer Fowler | CMU/SEI/CERT | USA |
Arlette Hart | FBI | USA |
Craig Jackson | Indiana University | USA |
Doug Jacobson | Iowa State University | USA |
Gail Kaiser | Columbia University | USA |
Phil Koopman | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
Julie Lefebvre | Defense Research and Development, Canada | Canada |
Rosalie McQuaid | MITRE Corp | USA |
Nader Mehravari | Cornell University | USA |
Tyler Moore | University of Tulsa | USA |
Nick Multari | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | USA |
Chris Oehmen | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | USA |
Jeffrey Picciotto | MITRE Corp | USA |
Indrajit Ray | Colorado State University | USA |
Craig Rieger | Idaho National Laboratory | USA |
Reginald Sawilla | NATO, Communication and Information Agency | NATO |
Nabil Schear | MIT Lincoln Labs | USA |
Laura Tinnel | SRI | USA |
Lisa Young | CMU/CERT | USA |
Web Masters
Shou-Yu Lee | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
Xuelin Li | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
Workshop Venue
CRE 2016 will be held in conjunction with QRS 2016 at Vienna, Austria. Please visit the QRS 16 website for further information.
General Inquiries
For more detailed and updated information, please contact Dr. Nick Multari at nick.multari@pnnl.gov or Mr. Jeffrey Picciotto at jp@mitre.org.
Previous CRE
- Annual Secure and Resilient Cyber Architectures Invitational - McLean, VA
- Asymmetry in Resilience (AiR) - Crystal City, VA
CRE 2016 Program (TBA)