Call for Speakers and Training: Closed

The symposium will be presented in hybrid method with in-person and virtual admission offerings. Sessions will be presented in English with French translation available.

The call for speakers and training is open to the global community at large, however, ideal candidates are those actively working within the region, or have recent experience working within the region.

If you are interested in participating as a speaker, panelist, or trainer please complete the submission form for consideration.

Submissions must be received by 20:00 UTC on December 9, 2022.

Please keep the following guidelines in mind before submitting:

Plenary and panel sessions are limited to either 30 or 60-minute durations, inclusive of audience question and answer. Plenary and panel sessions will host multiple speakers. Individual talk times will range anywhere from 10-20-minutes. Plenary and panel topics can be found below.
If you are seeking to submit training material, you will be expected to provide an abstract, training objective, attendee requirements, a basic outline, and participation capacity limits at submission. Training durations per day may range from 2-4 hours. Two-day continuous trainings are welcome.
Please have a brief biography (1-2 paragraphs) ready at submission time.
This event will be open to the community at large and will be recorded for public viewing. Plenary and training materials should be TLP:CLEAR. For more information about the Traffic Light Protocol, visit https://www.first.org/tlp/.

No marketing presentations or trainings that purposely promote vendor products.

Call for Speakers & Trainers Guidelines

We welcome all themes and topics that might be of interest to incident response teams.

*Suggested Session and Panel Topics Include...

Incident Handling
- Case studies, lessons learned, IR playbooks
- Tools, trends, and security technologies
- Attack trend updates (malware, bots, DDoS, etc.)
- Malware analysis, anti-virus evasion, etc.
- AI and ML applications, AI approaches applied to network attacks detection
- Submarine Cable attacks
- DNS Cache poisoning
Network Monitoring
- Attack detection, mitigation, and remediation
- Attack trend updates (malware, bots, DDoS, etc.)
- DNS, IPv6, and routing security and best practices
Application and Product Security
- Product security, PSIRT
- Supply chain cyber resilience
- Secure Dev-Ops
- CVE
Open-source Tooling
- OSINT
- Threat intelligence sharing platforms and tools
Standards and Frameworks
- CIS controls
- Security standards
Cyber Security Policy and Strategy
- Norms and CBMs
- Cybersecurity economics
- Funding models
- National strategies
- Capacity building
- Security awareness
Team Updates
Data Privacy
Social Media Mitigation Best Practices

Suggested Training Topics

ICS security
Social media mitigation best practices
Misinformation and disinformation
Ransomware incident response
Malware analysis
Threat intelligence
IntelMQ
OSINT
Application Security
Zero Trust Network
DDoS
Data security
Digital forensics
Penetration testing
Operational resilience
Reverse Engineering

Presenter Privileges

There is no fee to attend the symposium. Accepted speakers and trainers will be required to complete the online event registration form for badging purposes.