Name: DEF CON 26
Start: 2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-08-12T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas

Mission Statement
CSIAC is chartered to leverage the best practices and expertise from government, industry, and academia in order to promote technology domain awareness and solve the most critically challenging scientific and technical problems in the following areas: Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Software Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, and Knowledge Management/Information Sharing.
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Vision Statement
The goal of CSIAC is to facilitate the advancement of technological innovations and developments. This is achieved by conducting gap analyses and proactively performing research efforts to fill the voids in the knowledge bases that are vital to our nation.
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Insider Threat and the Malicious Insider Threat

Analyze. Deter. Discover. Prevent. Respond.

Journal of Cyber Security & Information Systems
This issue of the CSIAC Journal presents five articles
which represent different perspectives on Insider Threat
and approaches to understand and remediate that threat.
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CSIAC Webinar - Systems Engineering Challenges for Integrating Software Assurance into Defense Systems Throughout the System Acquisition Lifecycle
The mission of the DoD Joint Federated Assurance Center (JFAC) is to promote software and hardware assurance in defense acquisition programs, systems and supporting activities. This presentation will review the JFAC sponsored effort to provide program managers with a guidebook for "engineering-in" software assurance into defense systems during the entire system acquisition lifecycle.
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CSIAC Webinar - Cybersecurity of DOD Critical Infrastructure
The substantial cyber threat to the nation's Critical Infrastructure is the context for this webinar on DoD policy concerns and current R&D efforts. This webinar will also report the results of a panel discussion from the DHS Joint ICS Working Group (JICSWG) meeting April 9-11 at Albuquerque NM.
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CSIAC Webinar - Autonomic Cyber Security (ACS)
This webinar will provide an overview of cutting-edge research efforts being conducted at the University of Arizona’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center (CAC) along with one of their affiliate members, AVIRTEK Inc.
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National Initiative For Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Competitions Sub Working Group
Promoting a wide spectrum of competitions that advances knowledge, skills and abilities to nurture and expand a diverse national talent pool.
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DoD Cybersecurity Policy Chart
The goal of the DoD Cybersecurity Policy Chart is to capture the tremendous breadth of applicable policies, some of which many cybersecurity professionals may not even be aware, in a helpful organizational scheme.
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Modeling and Simulation: Serious Games to Enhance Defense Capabilities

Journal of Cyber Security & Information Systems
This 2017 special edition of the CSIAC Journal focuses on wargames and the many uses of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) that support decision making needed at the various levels of combat. In this issue you will find a selection of topics ranging from the uses of serious games for education and training to use of early synthetic prototyping to construct a physics-based game environment for assessing how new technologies might be employed on the battlefield through the use of user/soldiers participating in games.
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CSIAC Discussion: Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information
Join the CSIAC and Subject Matter Experts in discussing the recent revision of NIST guidelines SP 800-171. Topics include what impact it has on your organization, and how you can begin to implement its IA guidelines.
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