October 11, 2019, HAAS/CI Conference Program

Conference Schedule:

Time
Event
Notes
8:00-9:00
Registration and coffee
Please arrive on time to allow for parking, registration and meeting other attendees
9:00-9:30
Welcome and introductions
Organizing committee welcomes everyone to the conference, review the program, house keeping
9:30-10:30
Keynote - Socrates Frangis (Navy)

10:30-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00
Long Presentation - Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin

12:00-1:00
Lunch

1:00-1:30
Presentation 1 - Reza Abdolee (CI)

1:30-2:00
Presentation 2 - Nick Razum (Amgen)

2:00-2:30
Coffee break

2:30-3:00
Presentation 3 - Arthur Press (Semtech)

3:00-3:30
Presentation 4 - Varun Pole (AWS)

3:30-4:00
Closing
Invite everyone to the next meeting in the spring, and to propose talks.

Presentation booths during conference:

  • Cybersecurity Club
  • Navy interns / Capstone / MSCS in Machine Learning

Program details

Keynote

Name: Socrates Frangis
Title: Bug Hunting
Abstract: Bug Hunting: From manual reverse engineering to intelligent automation. Finding software defects and identifying security vulnerabilities in binaries is just as important as developing the software itself. This talk will cover the breadth of bug hunting, reverse engineering tools, DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), and NSWC Port Hueneme's effort in piloting Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Project Voltron - the follow on to the CGC for intelligently automating the detection and remediation of software defects.
Bio: Socrates Frangis is the Cybersecurity Technical Lead, as a direct report to the NAVSEA Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division Technical Director. His duties cover naval combat systems engineering and security research. Academically, he has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics from UCSB, Graduate degree from Naval Postgraduate School in Systems Engineering with a focus on directed energy weapons, and is currently a PhD Student at Naval Postgraduate School in Systems Engineering with a focus on cybersecurity.

Long Presentation

Name: Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin
Title: Legislation and Cybersecurity Training
Abstract: Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin serves as Chair of the California Select Committee on Cybersecurity and as the Co-Chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures Task Force on Cybersecurity. In these roles, she has served as an advocate for increased cybersecurity training and protection at the state and federal level. Her work includes: legislation that would requireCalifornia to create and properly implement cybersecurity emergency standards, require state departments do a network assessment every two years, force IoT related devices to include security standards when selling their devices in California, and allow political campaigns to spend money on cybersecurity training.
Bio: Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin is in her third term representing the 44th Assembly District in the State Assembly.  She was first elected to the Assembly in 2014, and serves as the Chair of the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Cybersecurity. She also sits on committees that oversee Agriculture, Business and Professions, Higher Education, and Privacy and Consumer Protection. While in the legislature, Assemblymember Irwin has had more than fifty bills signed by the Governor, including: requiring security on internet of things devices, banning powdered alcohol in CA, securing funds to establish an engineering school at Cal State Channel Islands, and investing in business incubators at UC campuses to ensure that research is being transformed into real-world products.
 Assemblymember Irwin served for ten years on the Thousand Oaks City Council, including two terms as Mayor. Before her election to public office she was a systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab and worked at Teledyne Systems.
 

Presentation 1

Name: Reza Abdolee
Title: Security Challenges in Internet-of-Things (IoT) Technology and its Impact on Industry
Abstract: The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a revolutionary technology with the ability to turn “things” into autonomously connected intelligent devices. This technology can improve the quality of our lives and protect the environment by minimizing the direct human interventions with everyday tasks through advance automation and communication mechanisms. The application of IoT technology can be seen almost across all industries, including manufacturing sectors, smart cities, digital agriculture, electronic healthcare, and defense. Typically, IoT devices are designed to be low-cost with limited storage space and computational capacity. Therefore, by design, they are able to only run lightweight cryptographic algorithms that might be more susceptible to cyberattacks. In fact, cybersecurity is the main obstacle hindering the advances and proliferation of IoT technology in different businesses. In this talk, Dr. Abdolee provides an introduction to IoT technology with a focus on industrial IoT (IIOT), and its role in automation and manufacturing. He explains how industry can utilize this technology to lower production costs and maintenance. He also discusses the consequences and the risks associated with this technology if not implemented properly. In particular, issues of security and privacy will be highlighted, and the capacity of CSUCI, in helping local industry will be explained.
Bio: Dr. Reza Abdolee is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at California State University, Channel Islands. In his current position, he teaches courses in the area of Computer Science and Robotics, and conducts multidisciplinary research in the area of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Dr. Abdolee also works as an Engineering Consultant for private sectors in the area of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and automation. Prior to joining academia, he has served as an Electrical and Software Engineer for several high-tech and manufacturing companies. His latest industry position was with Qualcomm in San Diego, where he worked on the software modeling and implementation of digital subsystems that are used in smartphones and IoT wireless devices. Dr. Abdolee has been appointed as a researcher at Bell Labs in Stuttgart, Germany and contributed to design of IoT and wireless communication systems. Dr. Abdolee obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering, jointly from McGill and University of California, Los Angeles in 2014.
Dr. Abdolee has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in IEEE journals and international conferences, including, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He holds several patents in the area of IoT, automation and wireless communication systems. He has given numerous conference presentations and invited talks. Dr Abdolee has served as a vice chair of IEEE student branch in McGill, session chair of several international conferences, panelist in California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), invited review panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF), and referee for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Dr. Abdolee’s academic performance has been recognized with several prestigious awards and scholarships, including, Department of Deference (DoD) research grant, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) award, and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)-RISE award. He is currently conducting several multidisciplinary research projects supported by NSF, USDA, and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CFDA) and DoD.

Presentation 2

Name: Nick Razum
Title: Behavioral Analytics and the Convergence of Physical & Cyber Security
Abstract: It is no longer meaningful to address risk in silos.  Whether physical or cyber, threats are threats.  The convergence of security functions may well be the most effective way to understand security risk.  Shifting from tactical to strategic can mitigate loss management and reduce bad things from occurring, decrease response time, and increase prevention.  Convergence is endorsed by the three leading international organizations for security professionals, ASIS, ISACAS and ISSA.  How closely physical and cyber security organizations are structured within an organization is dependent on organizational need.  This presentation will discuss factors which may be useful in determining organizational structure.
Bio: Nicholas Razum, PhD is a director in Global Security at Amgen. Nick is responsible for global intelligence, investigations, insider threat, and is also involved heavily with crisis management. Prior to joining Global Security in 2017, Nick was a director in information security for 5 years and head of research & development education and training for 7 years.  Nick has been assigned to (and led) Federal Public/Private Sector working groups within DoD and DHS on topics from Bioterrorism to Cybersecurity.  Prior to Amgen, Nick was the Director of IT, Corporate Security, and Education and Training at Miravant Pharmaceuticals in Santa Barbara for 14 years.  Nick has also been a reserve deputy with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department for over 25 years and has worked Patrol, Narcotics, K9, SAR and Criminal Intelligence.   Nick is a scientist by training and has a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in health science education and research from Touro and Trident Universities in NY and CA.  

Presentation 3

Name: Arthur Press