Addressing the Global Threat to Our Industrial Security

Highly sophisticated foreign and domestic-based cyber attacks threaten our economic security and innovation. Engage experts and colleagues on:

• Detecting and containing the risk of cyber espionage
• Protecting our proprietary information
• Addressing corporate and officer liability
• Assessing risks from offshore systems and operations
• Identifying and analyzing key trade implications
• Bridging the gap between public and private sector efforts
• Developing an action plan for the incoming Administration

Your company’s future depends upon how we collectively build and utilize the defenses against these new attacks.

Cyberspace is far from secure today. The United States faces real risks that adversaries will exploit vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical information systems, thereby causing considerable suffering and damage. -- National Research Council, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace, 2007.

Cyber terrorism threatens governments, corporations and individuals to extract financial or strategic information. Using increasingly sophisticated methods, hostile organizations gain access to critical intellectual property, trade and national secrets. Once attacked, government organizations and corporations are understandably reluctant to discuss the impact on their business or mission. Those that do speak publicly talk only in the most general terms. However, in the background, these corporations and government organizations are taking substantial steps to counter and defend themselves. These steps include technical solutions and organizational, cultural and procedural adaptations. While there are important lessons to learn, information sharing is done only in the most clandestine groups. To achieve the most effective cyberspace protection, it is critical that a secure system for sharing information is designed. How can we encourage taking the exchange of information out of back alleys and into the forefront of discussion between Chief Information Officers, Chief Security Officers and other executives?

The Defending Cyberspace™ 2008 Conference will focus on the nature of the threat and techniques to counter the threat, as well as opportunities to open the discussion and share best practices and methods to address confidentiality and secrecy. The Park City Center for Public Policy, in conjunction with Imadgen LLC, is convening this first exploratory symposium to begin the dialogue.