| Location: | Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, |
| Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada | |
| (just North of Toronto) | |
| Date: | October 17, 2005 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. | |
| CASCON web site: | https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/ |
| Workshop web site: | http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~chechik/cybersecurity/ |
| Marsha Chechik | University of Toronto |
| David Lie | University of Toronto |
| Walid Rjaibi | IBM Toronto |
| Jacob Slonim | Dalhousie University |
| Paul Van Oorschot | Carleton University |
As computers, especially networked computer systems, permeate our lives, security and privacy will be critical to the development and effective usage of those systems, thus becoming a crucial aspect of information technology. There is an emerging interest among Canadian research community in various aspects of cybersecurity. However, it is a broad topic that combines the facets of operating systems, data networks, programming languages, compilers, algorithms, cryptography, databases, computer architecture, formal methods, economics, and law, to name a few.
An area as active and diverse as security naturally admits many differing opinions and research approaches. Our aim is to bring together people working on all aspects of cybersecurity, including researchers, practitioners and government policymakers, with the goal of nurturing discussion amongst these diverse members. Other workshop goals include information exchange, network building, and advancing an agenda for a national information and network security research network. The agenda includes invited presentations (speakers to be announced once confirmed) from academia, industry and government, on recent advances in Internet security as well as general problems facing industry. The workshop is being held in cooperation with the Foundation for Information Security Innovation in Canada (FISIC), www.fisic.ca.
Those interested should register for the workshop (registration is free) AND send us an e-mail with a description (one paragraph to one page, text-only, please) of your research interests in this area. These expressions of interest will be used: