AFCEA - Los Angeles

Businesses and DOD depend on a network of physical and cyber infrastructure so critical that its degradation, exploitation or destruction could have a debilitating effect on its ability to sustain operations. This critical infrastructure includes domestic and foreign infrastructures essential to planning, mobilizing, deploying, executing and sustaining operations on a global stage.

Join us at the 2010 C4ISR Symposium where noted speakers will address “Tools and Technologies for Protection of our Critical Infrastructure.”

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
• Vice Admiral Bernard J. “Barry” McCullough, III Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/ Commander, U.S. 10th Fleet (Confirmed)
• Robert Lentz, Former DASD, NII (Confirmed)
• Darin Anderson, ESET (Invited)
• Dr. Starnes Walker, DHS, Science & Technology (Invited)
• Mayor Jerry Sanders, San Diego City Mayor (Invited)
• Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California State Governor (Invited)

PANELS:
A group of nationally known Cyber leaders will discuss how they are guarding their portion of the infrastructure. Moderator Linda Millis, from the Office of the Director National Intelligence will lead a discussion of members from DHS, OPNAV N2/6, Academia, and a National ISP.

Led by Seth Bromberger (invited) of the Energy Sector Security Consortium, members of the state of California government agencies, SDG&E and regional DOD security and medical communities will address their greatest concerns relating to protecting their ability to continue operations during cyber attack or life threatening event.

What is Cyber-Warfare? What describes a Cyber-Attack?

Cyber-warfare, also known as cyber-war, is the use of computers and the Internet in conducting warfare in cyberspace.

A cyber-attack is an attempt to undermine or compromise the function of a computer-based system, or attempt to track the online movements of individuals without their permission. Attacks of this type may be undetectable to the end user or network administrator, or lead to such a total disruption of the network that none of the users can perform even the most rudimentary of tasks. Because of the increasing sophistication of these kinds of network attacks, the development of effective software defenses is an ongoing process.
An attack must involve physical damage or economic damage. Cyberspace is economics. The majority of the global internet traffic is carried on fiber optic cable, undersea. There are over 500,000 miles of undersea cable worth approximately $30 billion. Who protects these assets? These cables connect people and sources in cyberspace. Cyberspace is also cultural. Virtual worlds continue to emerge connecting people globally, supporting collaboration.

Cyberspace brings teaming opportunities. Cyberspace can connect joint forces, global partners, inter-agency, private sector, and academia. Cyberspace is becoming social. 7 out of 10 sites are social networking sites. Chat rooms, tele-presence, virtual online communities, and virtual interactive worlds…all opportunities for DoD.

Cyberspace is mobile…mobile phone calls connect, communicate and control IEDs. They also store data, transfer data and take pictures and video and send text and geo-locate terrorists or tsunami survivors.
Cyberspace empowers. When people connect, they can achieve mass effect. Cyberpower can enhance relationships and security at sea, ashore, and in cyberspace. It leverages technology. It enables thoughts in new ways, controlling electrons with neurons, removing barriers between mind and machine.
It’s a new world.

As a life threatening event occurs, a network of First Responders jumps into action. Hear how local fire, law enforcement and county/city first responders take action to protect the critical needs supporting you as an individual.

Finally, we have gathered a group of innovators from SPAWAR, SDSU, Microsoft, and IBM who will discuss future trends in cyber defense, cloud computing and systems infrastructure. What can you, as a member of the National, Regional, and Local teams do in the future to ensure we have the right tools and technologies to protect this critical infrastructure.
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific and the San Diego Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) annually co-host a C4ISR Symposium that focuses on key challenges and opportunities facing our nation. This year’s theme is “Tools and Technologies for Protecting the Critical Infrastructure”

A classified (SECRET NOFORN) session will be held the morning of 20 May 2010 at SSC Pacific. This classified session will focus on the real-world threat to our Critical Infrastructure as well as discussing needed capabilities, technologies, and techniques for protecting our DoD, National, and local systems. Featured speakers will include:

• VADM Richard Hunt (Commander Third Fleet)
• US Northern Command J3
• Mr. Ron Broersma (SSC Pacific Systems Engineer and Nationally Recognized expert in DoD Cyber Security)
• FBI Cyber Security

Attendees will be a combination of approximately 350 appropriately cleared US government and industry C4ISR professionals, most with technical backgrounds, whose primary interest areas will be both identification of, and finding uses for, new technologies, products and services that can be brought to bear on solving infrastructure protection problems. A clear understanding of the real world threat and potential vulnerabilities to our critical systems and infrastructure would greatly contribute to mobilizing the industry and government workforce.

Hope to see you there! Hall of Champions May 18-20 2010. Co-hosted by AFCEA-SD and SPAWAR Pacific.

http://c4isr.afcea-sd.org/