Workshop on

Safeguarding National Infrastructures:
Integrated Approaches to Failure in Complex Networks

25th-27th August 2005, The Senate Room, University of Glasgow.


Programme:

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Day 1: Thursday, 25th August 2005
09.00-09.30
Welcome and Introduction,
Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, UK.

09.30-10.30
Invited Talk 1:

Protecting Infrastructures: The Role of Risk Analysis.
George Apostolakis,
MIT, USA.


10.30-11.00
Coffee

11.00-12.30
Paper Session 1: Threat Assessment in Computer Network Defence

Security Threat Assessment across Large Network Infrastructures
(Copy of Overheads)
Grigorios Fragkos and Andrew Blyth,
School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, UK.

Exploring the Role of Deception in Computer Network Defence and Information Operations Environment
(Copy of Overheads)
Zafar Kazmi, Theodore Tryfonas and Stilianos Vidalis,
School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, UK.

12.30-14.30
Lunch

14:30-16:00
Paper Session 2: Safeguarding Transportation Infrastructures

Denial of Safety Critical Services of a Public Mobile Network for a Critical Transport Infrastructure
(Copy of Overheads)
Ester Ciancamerla and Michele Minichino,
ENEA CR Casaccia, Rome, Italy.

EUROCONTROL's Systemic Occurence Analysis Methodology (SOAM)
(Copy of Overheads)
Tony Licu, EUROCONTROL, Brussels, Belgium.
Brent Hayward and Andrew Lowe, Dedale, Melbourne, Australia.

16:00-16.15
Tea

16:15-17:00
Paper Session 3: Emerging Failures

Safeguarding Information Intensive Critical Infrastructures Against Novel Types of Emerging Failures
C. Balducelli, S. Bologna, L. Lavalle and G. Vicoli,
ENEA, Italian Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment, Rome.


18:00-20:00
Informal Reception


Day 2: Friday, 26th August 2005
09.30-10.00
Welcome and Coffee,

10.00-10.30
Invited Talk 2:

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection: The Role of the UK National Infrastructure Security Coordination Center
Mike Corcoran,
UK National Infrastructure Security Coordination Center.

10.30-11.00
Coffee

11.00-12.30
Paper Session 4: Risk and Interdiction

Methodology for Identifying Near-Optimal Interdiction Strategies for a Power Transmission System
(Copy of Overheads)
Vicki Bier, Eli Gratz, Naraphorn Haphuriwat, Wairimu Magua, Kevin Wierzbicki
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.

Identification of Critical Locations across Multiple Infrastructures for Terrorist Actions
Sean Patterson and George Apostolakis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

12.30-14.30
Lunch

14:30-16:00
Paper Session 6: Security and Privacy

Passwords, Passwords Everywhere and Not a Minute to Think
(Associated papers)
Karen Renaud
University of Glasgow, UK.

Prospects for a Robust Electronic Voting System for the UK
(Copy of Overheads)
Ishbel Duncan and Tim Storer,
University of St. Andrews, UK.

16:00-16:15
Tea

16:15-17:00
Paper Session 6: Closing Paper (Time permitting)

A Risk-Based Approach to the Evacuation of Large Public Buildings: Hospitals

or
Root Cause Analysis for Complex Security Violations
Chris Johnson
University of Glasgow, UK.



Day 3: Saturday, 27th August 2005

08.00-19.00 (approximate timings)
Trip to Arran,

Further Information:
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For any further details contact: Prof. Chris Johnson, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QJ, Scotland. email: johnson@dcs.gla.ac.uk tel.: +44 141 330 6053 fax.: +44 141 330 4913

We acknowledge the support of the following organisations:

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