4th International Program on Information Assurance and Management
(For Information Security Executives of Banks and Financial Institutions)
The Conference Center, Niagara FallsAugust 30th - September 5th, 2015
One of the missions of the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE) is to increase awareness in information assurance (IA) by arranging seminars, conferences and workshops. The goal of this five and half-day workshop is to educate customers in banking and financial institutions in the area of IA and management so that they are better prepared to deal with malicious attacks targeted at their systems and network. In this week-long workshop, we will cover the following topics - Management of information security, Risk analysis and mitigation, Cyber attacks and countermeasures, Collection and analysis of digital evidence. The topics will be covered by experienced instructors from both academia and industries with prior experience of teaching and firsthand experience in the field.
Tentative Program
| Fourth International Program on Information Assurance and Management - 2015 | |
| Organized by: University at Buffalo: Shambhu Upadhyaya, Venu Govindaraju, Srirangaraj Setlur IDRBT: A.S. Ramasastri, B.M.Mehtre |
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| Day 1: Sunday - August 30, 2015 | |
| 1500 | Arrive at Sheraton at the Falls, Niagara Falls, NY from Buffalo Airport |
| 1830 - 2000 | Welcome Reception |
| Day 2: Monday - August 31, 2015 | |
| 0830 - 0900 | Breakfast |
| 0900 - 0915 | Welcome Remarks: Kenneth Tramposch - Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University at Buffalo |
| 0915 - 0930 | Introductory Remarks by Coordinators and Overview of Program |
| 0930 - 1030 | Security Architecture - Jeff Murphy, Information Security Program Manager, University at Buffalo |
| 1030 - 1100 | Coffee Break |
| 1100 - 1230 | Guest Lecture: Security Metrics and Risk Analysis for Enterprise Systems Anoop Singhal - Computer Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Washington DC |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch |
| 1330 - 1500 | Panel Discussion: Key security issues for financial institutions and what can be done to
mitigate them? – Moderated by: Shambhu Upadhyaya, Professor, University
at Buffalo Participants (tentative): Anoop Singhal, NIST, John Walp, KPMG, Kevin Thomsen, IBM |
| 1500 - 1530 | Coffee Break |
| 1530 - 1630 | Guest Lecture: Fighting
against Financial Crime Prakash Samaga - Senior Vice President, Compliance Solutions Program Manager, First Niagara Financial Group Inc. |
| 1630 - 1730 | Deception
Detection Mark Frank - Professor, University at Buffalo |
| Day 3: Tuesday - September 1, 2015 | |
| 0830 - 0900 | Breakfast |
| 0900 - 1030 | Cyber
Warfare - Monitoring and Alerts Manish Gupta, M&T Bank/University at Buffalo |
| 1030 - 1100 | Coffee Break |
| 1100 - 1230 | Cyber
Security - Risks and Mitigation Manish Gupta, M&T Bank/University at Buffalo |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch |
| 1330 -1430 | Guest Lecture: Strategies to stay safe and sound – Improving Technology
Controls in the Financial Sector Subbu Annaswamy - CISA, CSQA, Executive Director, Internal Audit, Morgan Stanley |
| 1430 - 1530 | Cloud Security Manish Gupta, M&T Bank/University at Buffalo |
| 1530 - 1600 | Coffee Break |
| 1600 -1730 | Guest Lecture: Digital
Forensics Scott R. Patronik - Chief, Special Services Division, Erie County Sheriff's Office |
| Day 4: Wednesday - September 2, 2015 | |
| 0830 - 0900 | Breakfast |
| 0900 - 1030 | Anomaly Detection - Varun Chandola - Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo |
| 1030 - 1100 | Coffee Break |
| 1100 - 1230 | Guest Lecture: Proactive Forensics Compliance 101 Mike McCartney - CEO and President, DIGITS LLC |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch |
| 1330 - 1430 | Phishing and Malware Raghav Rao - SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University at Buffalo |
| 1430 - 1500 | Coffee Break |
| 1500 - 1530 | Round table discussion |
| 1530 - 1730 | Visit to University at Buffalo campus and informal campus tour |
| 1800 - 2000 | IDRBT Sponsored Dinner |
| Day 5: Thursday - September 3, 2015 | |
| 0800 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0830 - 1200 | Visit to Yahoo Data Center |
| 1200 - 1300 | Lunch |
| 1300 - | Depart for Buffalo Airport for flight to NYC |
| Day 6: Friday - September 4, 2014 | |
| 1030 - 1230 | Visit to Morgan Stanley |
| 1230 - 1300 | Lunch @ Morgan Stanley Headquarters |
| 1300 - 1400 | Group reports and presentations from participants |
| Day 7: Saturday - September 5, 2015 | |
| 0900 - 1000 | Feedback (Online) and Wrap-up |
| 1000 - | Depart to JFK for return flights |
