Cybersecurity and Continuing Education

[cahwyguy]

Since 1990, I have had the honor and the privilege of being the Training Chair for the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), one of the three original conferences on what is now called Cybersecurity. ACSAC, which is held in early December in the sunbelt, is an approximately 200-250 person conference that brings together academics and industry to connect and talk about the application of computer security cybersecurity research. Attendance is about 25% international.

The conference, which this year takes place the week of December 5 at the beautiful Hilton Universal City in Los Angeles, consists of two days of training and workshops, followed by a two-and-a-half day technical conference. The purpose of this post is to highlight this year’s training program. Advance registration ends 11/14/2016. I encourage you, if you have an interest in cybersecurity, to attend one or more of our training courses:

Monday, December 5, 2016
M1	Understanding and Contrasting Android Malware at Runtime Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland
M2	Program Analysis and Machine Learning to Improve Security and Privacy Paolina Centonze, Iona College
M3	angr: Advancing Next Generation Research into Binary Analysis Fish (Ruoyu) Wang, Yan Shoshitaishvili, and Chris Salls, UC Santa Barbara
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
T4	Practical Homomorphic Encryption Kurt Rohloff, New Jersey Institute of Technology	T5	Big Data Analytics Over Encrypted Data Hassan Takabi, University of North Texas
T6	Hands-On Interactive Car Hacking Craig Smith, Theia Labs and Brendan Harris, US Dept. of Transportation Volpe Center
T7	Steganongraphy with Malware Applications John Ortiz, Harris and UT San Antonio

Tutorials T4 and T5 are half-day, the rest are full day. Click here to register for the conference; there are discounts for locals and those staying in the conference hotel. To register at the hotel, click here. Tutorials cost $575 (full day), $300 (half day); students are $300 (full), $150 (half). Rates include a good-sized continental breakfast and lunch (I know, I’m doing local arrangements and the food as well). Rates go up after 11/14.

Here is a summary of the tutorials:

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