Biography:
Since Sept 1st 2014, Marc Dacier, Ph.D., is leading the growing Cybersecurity Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI/HBKU). Dr. Dacier holds a PhD from the INPT, France, obtained in 1994 after 3 years at LAAS-CNRS. After one year as a security consultant in Paris, France, he joined IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland to create the Global Security Analysis Laboratory. In 2002, he left IBM to become a professor at Eurecom, France. In 2008, he left Eurecom to join Symantec to build its European Research Labs and manage all the ongoing collaborative research projects, worldwide. He spent 2 years in the USA while in that role. An internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity, Dr. Dacier has served on more than 60 program committees of all major security and dependability conferences and as a member of the editorial board of several technical journals.
Title:
On the importance of collaboration for cybersecurity: the why and how
Abstract: The notion of data and/or threats intelligence sharing has become a very hot buzzword within the security community over the last few years. Several initiatives are taking place. Unfortunately, they are usually confined within the boundaries of a given industry, structure, country or sets of countries by implementing a “friends of friends” paradigm. Alternatively, some other schema involved a trusted third party, typically a vendor or a government body. Whereas both approaches have merits they also suffer from severe drawbacks that will be outlined in this talk. Furthermore, we will present some very concrete and successful examples of worldwide collaborations that have taken place over the years as well as the benefits they have generated. As some of them are still active, we will explain how Chinese actors could also, if they so desire, participate to such international collaborations, what this would practically mean and what they would have to win in such joint activities.