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The goal of this workshop is to deepen participants' understanding of cybersecurity policy by exploring foundational concepts, hard problems, and problem solving by stepping into the roles of different stakeholders involved in policymaking. The workshop has interactive activities like fishbowl discussions and stakeholder breakout sessions, where participants will have the opportunity to learn from key policymakers, critically analyze various approaches to cybersecurity policy, debate their effectiveness, and collaborate with each other on policy recommendations. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to tackle complexities between technical and policy aspects of cybersecurity and identify practical strategies to address existing challenges in the field.
The workshop is divided into four sessions – lecture, fishbowl activity, deep dive, and stakeholder breakout. Each of the lecture and deep dive sessions will be 45 minutes each, with 5 minutes for questions while the activity sessions are being set up.
[45 minutes] Session 1: Expert Lecture
[5 minutes] Q&A and Activity Setup
[1 hour] Session 2: Fishbowl Activity
[20 minutes] Break
[45 minutes] Session 3: Deep Dive
[5 minutes] Q&A and Activity Setup
[1 hour] Session 4: Stakeholder Breakout Activity
Vaibhav Garg is the Executive Director of Cybersecurity & Privacy Research and Public Policy Research at Comcast Cable. He has a PhD in Security Informatics from Indiana University and a M.S. in Information Security from Purdue University. His research investigates the intersection of cybersecurity, economics, and public policy. He has co-authored over thirty peer reviewed publications and received the best paper award at the 2011 eCrime Researcher's Summit for his work on the economics of cybercrime. He previously served as the Editor in Chief of ACM Computers & Society, where he received the ACM SIGCAS Outstanding Service Award.
Jayati Dev is a Public Policy Researcher in the Comcast Cybersecurity research team, helping develop policy and processes for cybersecurity issues in emerging technologies. She holds a PhD in Security Informatics from Indiana University Bloomington where she worked on privacy-preserving technologies in conversational platforms. She has several publications in cybersecurity and is a board member for Society for Cable Telecommunications Engineers New England.