10th International Conference on Cyber Conflict
CyCon is organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Every year, over 500 decision-makers and experts from government, military and industry from all over the world approach the conference’s key theme from legal, technology and strategy perspectives.
These topics of possible submissions can give an idea about the conference:
• Cyberspace governance
• The role of international organisations in cyber security
• The changing role of states in cyberspace
• The evolution of the Internet of Things and its implications
• Norms and standards to enhance security in cyberspace
• The new generation of national cyber security strategies
• Cross-border dependencies, trans-border access to data
• The nature of current and future cyber attacks
• Non-state actors
• State-sponsored operations in cyberspace (incl. APTs and proxy actors)
• Military doctrine development, cyberspace as a domain of warfare
• Offence, defence and deterrence in cyberspace; active/responsive cyber defence
• Cyber capabilities, forces and weapons
• Autonomous cyber weapon systems
• Cyber terrorism
• Vulnerability disclosure
• Cyber-physical systems security
• Critical infrastructure protection (incl. data diode, IDS, industrial protocols and smart grids)
• Malware and botnets
• Hardware and software vulnerability mitigation
• Blockchain
• Future applications of quantum computing
• Big data, cloud and mobile computing security
• Artificial intelligence and cognitive cyber security (incl. data mining and machine learning)
• Cyber threat intelligence
• Situational awareness and security metrics (incl. security visualization)
• Attribution and digital forensics
• Digital trust and authentication
Legal aspects of cyber operations and other cyber activities:
• International humanitarian law
• Sovereignty
• Intervention
• Espionage
• Attribution
• International responsibility of states
• Due diligence
• Human rights (in particular the right to privacy, the right to freedom of expression, the right to protection of personal data)
• Emergence of legal norms
• Grey zones in international and national law.