Track Sessions

Track and Breakout Sessions are repeated to give attendees the opportunity to attend all three over the course of symposium.  Due to space limitations, we ask that once your schedule choice is made during registration to stay within your attendee plan during the event.

Track One: Operations

Track Lead:

Brig Gen Michael Carey, USAF

Deputy Director, Global Operations
Global Operations Directorate, U.S. Strategic Command

Track Facilitator:

Maj Gen Thomas F. Deppe, USAF

Vice Commander
Air Force Space Command

Track Speaker:

Mr. Sami Saydjari

Founder/President
Cyber Defense Agency

Objective: Discuss challenges, solutions, and opportunities to enhance freedom of movement in the cyberspace domain and draw on the diverse experiences of symposium participants to collect unique insights on key Tier 1 Joint Capability Areas (JCAs) critical to cyberspace operations.

Breakout 1.1: Joint Command and Control

Session Leader:
Dr. William Mahoney
UNO School of IS&T

• What are key Measures of Performance and Effectiveness for C2 in cyberspace operations?
• How can command and control in cyberspace operations be improved?
• What current issues do you believe have the most significant impact (positive or negative) on cyberspace operations?
• What future issues do you foresee having the most significant impact (positive or negative) on cyberspace operations?

 

Breakout 1.2: Joint Battlespace Awareness

Session Leader:
Dr. Robert Mills
Air Force Institute of Technology

• What are key Measures of Performance and Effectiveness for situational awareness in cyberspace operations?
• How can situational awareness in cyberspace operations be improved?
• What current issues do you believe have the most significant impact (positive or negative) on cyberspace operations?
• What future issues do you foresee having the most significant impact (positive or negative) on cyberspace operations?

 

Breakout 1.3: Joint Net-Centric Operations

Session Leader:
Dr. Daniel Boger
Dean of Research, Chair of Information Sciences Department, Naval Postgraduate School

• What are key Measures of Performance and Effectiveness for cyberspace operations?
• How can training and simulation in cyberspace operations be improved?
• What current issues do you believe have the most significant impact (positive or negative) on cyberspace operations?
• What future issues do you foresee having the most significant impact (positive or negative) on cyberspace operations?

Breakout 1.4: Training the Cyber Warrior

Session Leader:
Chief Master Sergeant Thomas S. Narofsky, USAF
Command Chief Master Sergeant
U.S. Strategic Command

• The Unified Command Plan 2008 assigns cyberspace operation responsibilities and the defense of the global grid to USSTRATCOM - how do we recruit, develop and prepare personnel for the cyberspace mission; and what characteristics, capabilities and traits do we need for the defense of the global grid?
• What overall culture, conduct and capabilities do we need in this cyber force?
• Based on the growing cyberspace domain, what kind of training do we need in order to produce a joint and interagency cyberspace force - Service specific, a Joint schoolhouse, or a National schoolhouse?
• How do the Services and inter-agencies compete with other cyberspace domain users in retaining a trained and certified cyberspace force?

Track Two: Mitigating the Threat

Track Lead:

CAPT Jeffrey L. Canfield, USN
Director of Intelligence, J2
U.S. Strategic Command

Track Speaker:

Ms. Priscilla Guthrie
Director, Information Systems and Technology Division
Institute for Defense Analyses

Objective: Increase intellectual capital in this mission area; discuss challenges, solutions and opportunities to enhance freedom of operations in cyberspace and highlight vulnerabilities to the US posed by computers and military hardware components in the supply chain; increased threat of socially engineered emails and similar threats to information assurance; threat of espionage by insiders.

Breakout 2.1: IT Supply Chain Hazards to US National Security Interests

Session Leader:
Mr. Leonard J. Brown
Deputy Director of Intelligence
J2, U.S. Strategic Command

• Who should be responsible for identifying Supply Chain Hazards from hardware, software and service providers?
• What safeguards should be implemented to strengthen defense against supply chain risks?
• To what degree does outsourcing and offshoring integral parts of the supply chain constitute a significant loss of control?
• To what extent does the benefit of worldwide access to technological talent IOT create required software for the DOD pose a risk to the software supply chain and compromise to potential adversaries?

 

Breakout 2.2: Information Assurance

Session Leader:

Col Gay M. McGillis, USAF
Chief, Director's Action Group
J2, U.S. Strategic Command

• What defenses against data manipulation are required?
• What best practices from industry and allies can be adopted by DoD to improve IA?
• How do we train, equip, and prepare personnel for the evolving cyber mission; once trained, how do we retain the expertise?
• Defensive computer security measures always lag behind the latest attack footprint. What can be done to reverse this?

 

Breakout 2.3: Insider Threats to Cyber Security

Session Leader:

CAPT Kris O. Davis, USN
Chief, Plans, Capabilities and GEOINT
J2, U.S. Strategic Command

• Are current educational efforts sufficient to eliminate the unintentional insider threat?
• How do we improve early detection of the intentional inside threat? 
• The GAO reports consistently give abysmal grades to the federal government's cyber security programs. What additionally needs to be done to improve the overall grade to the federal government?
• Are the legal penalties severe enough to deter cyber crimes?

 

Track Three: Cyberspace Deterrence

Track Lead:

Brig Gen Susan J. Helms, USAF
Director, Plans and Policy
U.S. Strategic Command

Objective: Focus on meeting cyberspace threats, enhancing national security, and maintaining freedom of action.  Examine the similarities/differences of a cyberspace deterrence model and support the Commander's symposium themes of meeting cyberspace threats, enhancing national security, and maintaining freedom of action.

Breakout 3.1: Accountability/Attribution

Session Leader:
Col James Labombard
J53, U.S. Strategic Command

• What are the key aspects of being able to attribute cyber intrusions to their origin?
• Once identified, how do we classify the severity of the unwanted activity?
• Should there be a central "clearing house" for prioritizing/classifying cyber events?
• In reference to the previous bullet and the Interagency, who/where should this reside?

 

Breakout 3.2: Cyber Policy and Redlines

Session Leader:

Mr. Gregory Weaver
J5B, U.S. Strategic Command

• In addition to policy, how should our "cyber" force look (attributes, traits, characteristics)? DoD, government, public and private?
• Do/Should we have redlines?  Does this enable the intruder to work around them?
• When does cyber activity transition from unwanted/unavoidable/bearable to unacceptable and necessary for reprisal?
• Should we be 100% transparent in our policies and reactions? Under what circumstances would we conceal our knowledge of the intrusion, intent to react, and inevitably our response actions?

 

Breakout 3.3: Imposing Costs

Session Leader:

Mr. Patrick McKenna
J55, U.S. Strategic Command

• Based on the cost of entry (low) into cyberspace, what avenues are available to deter users?
• Can costs be imposed on the network/system being used? Based on the fact that a user can utilize an intermediate system to carry out their actions.
• As opposed to imposing costs, what can we offer in return for "good behavior" in cyberspace? That is to say not just "deter" but "influence".
• How do we (and who) quantify/qualify actions to ensure a consistent/proportional response?