GeekWeek 9

Animating cyber security

GeekWeek provides an opportunity for participants to take few days away from their day-to-day and work with public sector, industry, critical infrastructure and international partners to explore innovative ideas in the cyber security space.

Venue

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
1625 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa
ON K1L 7P1

Event date

May 29 to June 7, 2024

If you’re interested in future Geek events, reach out to contact@cyber.gc.ca

 

Registration information

Given the technical nature of the workshop, GeekWeek is an invitation-only event.

 

Keynote speaker

James Gosling is a distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services best known for creating the Java programming language.

James’s educational journey began at William Aberhart High School in Calgary, Alberta. During high school, he demonstrated his early talent by writing software to analyze data from the ISIS 2 satellite for the University of Calgary physics department. James Gosling received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary in 1977. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints".

He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor and a text editor called “Emacs” for Unix systems. He spent many years as a vice-president and fellow at Sun Microsystems. At Sun, his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He has been a contributor to the Real-Time Specification for Java, and a researcher at Sun labs where his primary interest was software development tools. He was then the Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products Group and the CTO of Sun's Client Software Group. He briefly worked for Oracle after the acquisition of Sun in 2010. After a brief stint at Google, he became the chief software architect at Liquid Robotics where he spent his time writing software for the Waveglider, an autonomous ocean-going robot.

Awards

• The Economist Innovation Award
• Flame Award USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
• Officer of the Order of Canada
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers John von Neumann Medal

Topics and themes

The following topics and themes have been proposed for GeekWeek 9.

• Physical cyber systems

  • Preparing for a wireless future
  • Industrial spectrum monitoring
  • Industrial control systems - Operational technology security for energy
  • Digital identity
  • Security gateway for connected cars
  • Hunting the hunters
  • Firmware security
• Cyber toolboxes and analytical environments

  • Memory analysis
  • Live sandboxes
  • Industrial control systems honeypot
  • Remote desktop protocol honeypot
  • Home modems and routers protection
  • Internet scanner
• Cyber threat hunting

  • Detecting and decoding advanced persistent threat malware
  • Validation cyber threat infrastructure
  • Cyber artifact crowdsourcing
  • Malicious infrastructure and threat hunting
  • Operationalize hunting malicious samples
  • Cross-organization data harvesting and analytics
  • It’s all about money
• Cyber threat analytics

  • Cyber security posture
  • Cyber threat storytelling
  • Protecting country-specific domains from phishing campaigns
  • Advanced genetic malware analysis
  • Malicious email identification and triage enhancement with large language models (LLMs)
  • Cyber news aggregation ad summarization with LLMs
  • Automated signature generation
• Cyber protection, assessment and defence

  • Building secure cloud applications
  • Monitoring, analytics and scaling security in the cloud
  • Hardened router operating system
  • Analyze this!
  • Feeding the dragon: Threat modeling and risk assessment made easy
  • Evaluating software deployed through business networks
  • Bridging the communication gap in cyber security
  • Secure and private mobile operating system
• Open-source solutions: Giving back to the cyber security community

  • Cyber range development
  • Cyber tools development: Kangooroo, Borealis, Chameleon/Beever, BeAVER, Assemblyline and BADGER
• Cyber defence turnkey solutions

  • Cyber defense Fly-Away kit
  • Secure operations centre (SOC) in a box
    • Platform
    • Pipeline for data collection
    • Analytics
    • Machine learning-based analytics

 For more general information about GeekWeek, visit the GeekWeek page.