| MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 |
1400 - 1420 |
Plenary Session: Cognitive Security Track Introduction
Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, Adam Hill, Palvi Aggarwal
Humans are subject to cognitive limitations and bias, which leads to lower quality decision making and bad decisions. Cyber attackers are taking advantage of these limitations also known as "cognitive biases" to launch various attacks. With the ultimate goal to secure the cyber world, we will discuss how cognitive biases could be used to strengthen cybersecurity. As network owners, defenders can use the “home-field advantage” to present information to attackers in specific ways to exacerbate innate human biases in order to delay, disrupt, or deter the attack. Another way to improve cybersecurity outcomes is to improve the cognitive security of a relevant population by detecting and mitigating individual and group-level biases. We will explore means to detect and mitigate these biases; decision-making processes at risk; and methods for exploit biases in attackers.
Research proposals or initiatives are expected outcomes from this track.
Guidline Questions:
- How to take advantage of the attacker’s cognitive biases for adaptive and personalized defense?
- How to detect and mitigate biases to ensure security?
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SRI Innovation Room |
| INITIAL TRACK SESSION |
Track Room |
| 1420 - 1430 |
Facilition Ground Rules and ICE Breakers
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| 1430 - 1600 |
Open discussion on:
- How to take advantage of the attacker’s cognitive biases for adaptive and personalized defense?
- How to detect and mitigate biases to ensure security?
(includes afternoon break)
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| PLENARY SESSION |
transition to plenary |
| 1630 - 1715 |
Track Ideas Incubation Panel
Panel discussion of Track activities
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SRI Innovation Room |
| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 |
| MORNING TRACK SESSION |
Track Room |
| 0945 - 1145 |
Subgroup discussions and deliberations
Note: CS TC will lead each subgroup; Palvi will float between Subgroups for Cross feed; Chelsea Johnson and Adam Ekwall will take notes; Mark Loepker will facilitate between the two groups
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| AFTERNOON TRACK SESSION |
Track Room |
| 1400 - 1530 |
Subgroup discussions and deliberations
Note: CS TC will lead each subgroup; Palvi will float between Subgroups for Cross feed; Chelsea Johnson and Adam Ekwall will take notes; Mark Loepker will facilitate between the two groups
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| 1530 - 1415 |
Subgroups reconvene as one group and share activities including potential Research Proposal and Challenge Problem opportunities
(includes afternoon break)
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| PLENARY SESSION |
transition to plenary |
| 1615 - 1700 |
Track Ideas Incubation Panel
Panel discussion of Track activities
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SRI Innovation Room |
| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 |
| FINAL TRACK SESSION |
Track Room |
| 0945 - 1045 |
Subgroups meet to write research proposals
Note: CS TC will lead each subgroup; Palvi will float between Subgroups for Cross feed; Chelsea Johnson and Adam Ekwall will take notes; Mark Loepker will facilitate between the two groups
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| 1000 - 1015 |
Subgroups reconvene as one group to share Research Proposal and Challenge Problem recommentations
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| PLENARY SESSION |
transition to plenary |
| 1115 - 1145 |
Plenary Review of Track Efforts
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SRI Innovation Room |
