[ecrea] CFP: Legal and Policy Dimensions of Cybersecurity

Legal and Policy Dimensions of Cybersecurity

Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Thomas I. Vanaskie

Circuit Judge for The United States Court of Appeals for the Third 
Circuit[1] <#_ftn1>

A by-invitation experts’ workshop to be held at
George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
September 28-29, 2016

The security of information networks and databases is now a critical 
element of national security and economic competitiveness. Rapid growth 
in e-commerce, banking, and communication systems and the Internet of 
Things (IoT) has increased efficiency and driven economic growth, but by 
necessity these systems preclude consumers’ control over how and where 
their data are collected, archived and processed. Recent high-profile 
breaches of security at banks and retailers, coupled with secret and 
not-so-secret efforts by foreign governments and rogue actors to attack 
critical information infrastructures, have heightened these concerns. 
Legal and policy responses to the cybersecurity challenge are just as 
important as technological ones.

To focus much-needed attention on this field of study, /the IIP invites 
authors to submit abstracts/ by *July 25, 2016* a/ddressing the policy 
and legal aspects of information security, privacy, data protection, 
cybersecurity-related legislation, and critical cyber-infrastructure 
protection//./ Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present 
and discuss them during a 2 day by-invitation-only experts workshop held 
at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs 
on September 28-29 (Wed.-Thu.), 2016. Each paper will be assigned a 
respondent recruited from the local academic/policy/advocacy communities 
and will be allotted a full hour for presentation, response and 
discussion. A reception and formal dinner provide room for social 
interaction. This year the workshop is privileged and grateful to have 
United States Court of Appeals Circuit Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie in 
attendance and as Keynote Speaker. Judge Vanaskie is one of the leading 
and most prominent federal jurists in developing the United States 
Courts’ information and technology policies.

This workshop is thirteenth in a series of workshops organized by the 
IIP since 2011, in support of its /Journal of Information Policy, 
/published by the IIP in partnership with the Penn State University 
Press (http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JIP.html). Presenters at 
the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers for peer 
review to the Journal, with the successful papers presented in special 
issues dedicated to each workshop. The /JIP/ has previously conducted 
workshops on a variety of topics including the future of broadband 
policy, digital diversity, new ICTs and democracy, media policy and 
advocacy, campaign funding and media, intellectual property, and more. 
For programs of previous workshops see: 
http://comm.psu.edu/research/centers/iip/conferences-and-worskhops.

Possible topics for the workshop include the following:

·Critical infrastructure protection, including information and energy 
networks

·Cybersecurity policies and governance in nation states

·Cybersecurity policies and governance in transnational organizations

·Threats and vulnerabilities to cybersecurity and the policies they invoke

·Information policy and cybersecurity in the age of IoT

·Data breaches and the law – regulation, enforcement, protection, and 
damages

·Cybersecurity and U.S. courts

·Cybersecurity and privacy legislation—federal and state efforts to 
balance cyber security and civil liberties

·The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and consumer online data protection 
enforcement—efforts, failures, future models

·The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and web-based data regulation

·Consumer data protection – an international legal and diplomatic conundrum

·The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

·Cybersecurity models

·Cybersecurity management

· Cybersecurity concerns and democracy

·Strategic planning and security strategy

·History of cybersecurity policy and governance

·Security education, training and awareness

·The future of cybersecurity: uncertainties and scenarios

This workshop is made possible with financial contributions from the 
Penn State Colleges of Communications, Information Sciences and 
Technology, and Law, and the Office of the Provost, and with 
organization assistance from the George Washington University School of 
Media and Public Affairs.

Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be 
submitted to (pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu) <mailto:(pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu)> by July 
25, 2016.[2] <#_ftn2> Please write IIP_CYBERSECURITY: YOUR NAME in the 
subject line. Presenters will be notified by August 15, 2016 regarding 
acceptance. Accepted papers will need to be submitted by September 19, 2016.

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[1] <#_ftnref1>Judge Thomas Vanaskie was sworn in as a Circuit Judge for 
the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on April, 28, 
2010. Prior to his appointment to the Third Circuit, Judge Vanaskie was 
appointed by the U.S. President to the United States District Court for 
the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where he served for 16 years, seven 
of those years as Chief Judge. In 2005, the late Chief Justice William 
H. Rehnquist appointed Judge Vanaski to serve as Chair of the Judicial 
Conference Information Technology Committee, where he served until 2008. 
Judge Vanaskie presently serves on the Third Circuit Judicial Council’s 
Information Technology Committee. The Judge is also presently appointed 
to serve on the Space and Facilities Committee of the Judicial 
Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for all of the 
United States Courts. Judge Vanaskie attended Penn State University’s 
Dickinson School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor Degree, /Cum Laude/, 
in 1978. Judge Vanaskie is currently an Adjunct Law Professor at Penn 
State and Dickinson Law Schools, where he teaches Electronic Evidence.

[2] <#_ftnref2> Note: the abstract submission deadline has been extended 
to July 25, 2016

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