Agenda:
- 8:15am Registration
- 8:45am Prompt: What are the key gaps and issues we encountered and addressed this week in eCrime 2024’s discussions?
- 8:55am Discussion: What are the key gaps and issues we addressed this week?
- 9:35am Opener: How can these gaps be researched and measured with appropriate. domain-relevant rigor?
- 9:40am Discussion: How can these gaps be researched and measured with appropriate. domain-relevant rigor?
- 10:15am Break
- 10:40am Opener: How can policy makers and industry address these issues and avoid/adroitly negotiate collisions?
- 10:45am Discussion: How can policy makers and companies address these issues?
- 11:20am What operational at risk management practices will devolve to sovereign law to organise and enforce as keystones to stable infrastructure maintenance upon which society depends?
- 12:00pm Discussion, coffee and crusts
Location: Tufts University, Room TBD (Directions)
Information and cybersecurity has been the topic in the boardroom and policy circles for multiple years now. Outages regularly make the news, as failures of popular services can impact on hundreds of organizations and millions of people. Yet, while some discussions are happening around the issues of cybercrime and abuse, little is improving at any scale. Cryptoscams are legion on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter, attempts to compromise Business Email are regularly successful, phishing sites are everywhere, and fraudulent spam clogs mailboxes — even if technical measures are deployed.
The eCrime Measurement, Risk and Policy Roundtables on Securing Digital Society shall engage the public policy gaps that must be addressed to make those common abuses that plague Internet infrastructure manageable at scale. These are policy deficits that the private sector has, to date, indicated it lacks the power, imagination or motivation to grasp constructively, to our common peril. Some key issues demand technical expertise and operations-level mitigations, and these aspects of criminal schemes are thus relegated to disciplines of computer science, engineering, economics, and criminology.
Yet, many if not most other key issues pertain directly or partially to governance and the international system: for example, it is an open secret that many profit-oriented cybercrime groups are shielded if not supported by governments who benefit from extracting value from “Western” consumers, transferring funds and weakening their economic and political systems.It has become, therefore, increasingly clear to both sides of the operations and policy divide that the strongest solutions to common infrastructure abuses are operational best practices steeled by directly relevant policy.
eCrime Measurement, Risk and Policy Roundtables on Securing Digital Society will work to identify those opportunities in securing shared Internet infrastructure from common abuses that can be most enduringly animated by the contemporaneous application of policy and operational conventions.This first installment of the policy roundtables shall lay the groundwork for future discussions and work products that may have an impact on governments, companies, and — most importantly — people.
What questions need to be resolved to make progress, what issues need to be clarified and discussed, what “work products” would lead to interest and change in corporate and policy circles? In short, what are the levers to pull to stop criminal exploitation of the shared Internet infrastructure, and who and where need they to be pulled?
These policy roundtables shall bring together business and policy leaders, non-governmental and civil society organizations, law enforcement, empirical researchers, security specialists, and engineers in order for all these groups to consider what different stakeholders can do and provide to address the challenges of cybercrime and online abuse.
Registration
Members of the Tufts community are more than welcome to attend the Friday policy roundtables, or the APWG eCrime conference as a whole. As space is limited, please contact Laurin.weissinger@tufts.edu. We will do our best to get everyone a spot, even on short notice, but kindly ask you to please contact Laurin as soon as possible to secure a spot.