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The State of Security News. Trends. Insights.
Defensive Cyberspace Operations and Intelligence
Cyber Security Forum Initiative
Apr 22, 2014
On April 8-9, 2014, the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) co-sponsored the most
recent Defensive Cyberspace Operations & Intelligence (DCOI) conference with Tel
Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), at INSS’s conference
center.
The objective of the DCOI, which is now an annual, high-level US-Israel cyber
conference, is to contribute to an informed public discussion on cybersecurity and to
promote international collaboration in the technological, legal, and policy-making
domains – and the conference achieved those objectives.
BG Carlos G.L. de Medina, Chief of ESP Joint Cyber Command, Spain
The main “take-aways” from the conference were (1) that Israel has so much to offer the
U.S. cyber community, including both the USG and the private sector; and (2) that there
are numerous Israeli cyber start-ups that have innovative technical solutions that are ripe
for the USG and civilian markets and offer attractive opportunities for potential U.S.
teammates and investors.
Paul de Souza, Founder/President of CSFI and Col. (ret.) Robert Morris, CSFI Advisory
Director
Four CSFI directors (Hayes, Morris, Jamison, and de Souza) all turned out to participate
in and support the DCOI event in Tel Aviv with tremendous success.
CSFI not only sponsored and helped organize the conference (over 400 attendees), but
participated as speakers, moderators, and panelists on a variety of subjects, all combining
to create a superb event.
The Conference, which was hosted by the Institute for National Security Studies at the
University of Tel Aviv, included participants from Europe, Asia, North and South
America, and the Middle East, with total of 16 countries being represented at the event.
As an added bonus, attendees available on Monday participated in INSS sponsored tours
and briefings from the Israeli Defense Force Cyber Operations Staff and Be’er Sheba
Cyber Center of Excellence and Innovation. Special thanks to Jerusalem Venture Partners
(JVP), one of Israel’s leading venture capital funds in supporting DCOI along with many
other sponsors.
Adm. (ret) Norman Hayes, VP at SBG Technology Solutions, CSFI Advisory Director
Our DCOI attendees had the opportunity to tour new cyber centers being developed in
Israeli universities. It appears Israeli cyber faculty will expand as new academic cyber
research projects are being prepped in Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Ben Gurion
University (BGU).
The TAU cyber initiative, with a budget of 10 million shekels ($2.9M), will be headed by
Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael and will focus on cyber defense by combining exact
sciences research, such as computer science and computer engineering, with research in
the cyber field through social studies.
BGU will develop the national center for defending cyber space with the cooperation of
the National Cyber Bureau. The center will advance a long term theoretical research in
the cyber domain with the investment of 30 million shekels ($8.7M), which will be run
by Professor Yuval Elovich.
Conference speakers provided thoughts and insights on how cyber professionals could
develop and implement strategies, improve communications, work human capital, and
improve cyber education systems to mutually support cyber security worldwide.
Major General Uzi Moscovici, Head of the IDF J6/C4i Directorate, IDF
The CSFI/INSS team built a video to initiate discussion for the Strategic Operations
Simulation Panel with Norm Hayes, Bob Morris, and Marc Jamison as presenters.
The Cyber Simulations Panel emphasized and demonstrated that cyber security and cyber
warfare is a whole of nations approach requiring governments, academia, and industry to
work toward common objectives. Cyber is but one lever nations can use to support
strategy and policy.
The Israeli speakers included the following:
Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of Intelligence
MG (ret.) Amos Yadlin, former Chief of Military Intelligence and now Director
of INSS
Dr. Eviatar Matania, Head of Israel’s National Cyber Bureau
Dr. Avi Hasson, Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Economy
Dr. Erel Marglit, Chair of the Knesset Task Force for Cybersecurity and founder
of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
Dr. Gabi Siboni, Director of the Cyber Warfare Program at INSS
Other Israeli speakers included thought leaders from prominent cybersecurity providers,
such as the following:
BG (res.) Yair Cohen, former Head of Unit 8200 and now Head of Intelligence &
Cyber Solutions at Elbit Systems, Ltd.
Michal Blumenstyk-Braverman, GM of Azure Cybersecurity, a MicroSoft entity
Ron Davidson, CISO for CheckPoint
CSFI’s delegation was led by Paul de Souza, Founder/President of CSFI, and included
the following members and international speakers:
Adm. (ret) Norman Hayes, VP at SBG Technology Solutions, CSFI Advisory
Director
Col. (ret.) Marc Jamison, President & CEO of Cyber Checkmate
Consultants, CSFI Advisory Director
Col. (ret.) Robert Morris, CSFI Advisory Director
David Miles, Sr. Director of R&D Cyber at Accuvant Labs, and Ira Hoffman, a
Member of the CyberMaryland Advisory Board and Principal at Offit Kurman,
P.A.
Paul Steinberg, Sr. VP, Motorola Solutions
Tony Cole, VP & Global Gov’t CTO for FireEye
Other international speakers included the following:
BG Carlos G.L. de Medina, Chief of ESP Joint Cyber Command, Spain
Monica Lacerda, Risk Manager for the 2014 World Cup Organizing Committee
Andrei Avadnei, President, Cyber Security Research Center (CCSIR), Romania
Prof. Salih Biçacki, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Albert Gabas of Astabis IRM of Spain
MG (ret.) Amos Yadlin, former Chief of Military Intelligence and now Director of INSS
and Dr. Gabi Siboni, Director of the Cyber Warfare Program at INSS
DCOI represents a unique community of Cyberspace Operations and Intelligence
professionals with the goal of raising awareness and knowledge of such specialized
domains.
As nations become more entangled based on common objectives, the global economy and
shared vision of the future, key partners must be developed and cultivated.
Hats off to Gabi Saboni and Paul de Souza and their teams for putting on a benchmark
event.
Images courtesy of Chen Galili
About CSFI: CSFI, founded in 2009, is a nonprofit organization. Its mission is to
provide cyberdefense awareness, guidance and security solutions through collaboration,
education, volunteer work and advanced training.
CSFI supports the U.S. government and military as well as private commercial interests
and their international partners. CSFI is comprised of a large community with more than
30,000 cybersecurity and cyberwarfare professionals from all divisions of the
government, military, private sector and academia. Tripwire is proud to be a Gold
Sponsor of CSFI.
Title image courtesy of ShutterStock
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