DIGILIENCE 2021 Agenda
Colour Legend: Plenary sessions & Track 1 (Admin Building/ Channel 1); Track 2 (Building # 1/Channel 2)
29 September 2021 (Day 1)
09.00-09.15 Registration
09.15-11.00 Conference Opening & Plenary session 1
Welcoming
- Brigadier General Ivan Malamov, National Military University "Vasil Levski"
- Atanas Maznev, Deputy Chair, State e-Government Agency
- Col. Dr. Borislav Genov, Director, Bulgarian Defence Institute "Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov"
- Address on behalf of the Director, "Communications and Information Systems" Directorate, Defence Staff
Opening remarks on behalf of the Organisers:
- Prof. Todor Tagarev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
- Col. Dr. Nikolai Stoianov, Deputy Director, Bulgarian Defence Institute
- Dr. George Sharkov, Director, ESI-CEE & CyberRes Lab, SofiaTech Park
Plenary presentation:
- Brigadier General Vassil Sabinski, Challenges of Cyber Defence
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary session 2
- Patterns for Describing Cross-Domain Military Interoperable Systems Architectures to Enable Decision Advantage, Salvador Llopis, European Defence Agency
- Challenges in Modeling APTs in Cyber Ranges, Prof. Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Situational Awareness and Decision Support
- Augmented Reality in an Enhanced Command and Control Application, Alexander Kolev and Lili Pavlova
- RSA Weaknesses Caused by the Specifics of Random Number Generation, Ivan Blagoev, Todor Balabanov, and Iliyan Iliev
- A Security Approach to a Military Autonomous Platform Path Planning, Alexander Ranov and Alexander Kolev
13.30-15.30 Security of Computer and Communications Networks
- Computer Network Attacks Defence Tools Based on Extended Information about the Environment, Mariia Voitsekhovska and Mariia Dorosh
- Computer Networks and Cybersecurity Issues and Solutions – A Survey, Andon Lazarov and Petia Petrova
- Concepts in Networks and Communication Security and Graph Theory, Yordan Shterev Ivanov
15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
Historical Tour
30 September 2021 (Day 2)
09.15-11.00 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
- Host-based Intrusion Detection Using Signature-based and AI-driven Anomaly Detection Methods, Panos Panagiotou, Notis Mengidis, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
- Heuristic-based Intrusion Detection Functionality in a Snort Environment, Bartłomiej Gdowski, Rafał Kościej, and Marcin Niemiec
- Software Lifecycle Based on DLT, Biser Tsvetkov and Hristo Kostadinov
09.15-11.00 Digital Transformation: Organisations, Governance, Ethics
- Mathematical Model for Determining Political Rating based on Social Networks, Oleg Chertov and Taras Rudnyk
- The Role of Information Campaigns and Advertising in the Military Recruitment System, Grigor Grigorov
- Analysis of Cloud Environments to Support Remote Work and Collaboration, Kristina Ignatova
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.30 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (cont.)
- A Clustering Method for Information Summarization and Modeling a Subject Domain, Dmytro Lande, Ihor Subach, Olexander Puchkov, and Artem Soboliev
- Network User Behaviour Analysis by Machine Learning Methods, Michal Turčaník
11.15-12.30 Digital Transformation: Organisations, Governance, Ethics (cont.)
- Decision Support Technology for Roadmapping in Cybersecurity Sphere, Vitaliy Tsyganok, Sergii Kadenko, Oleh Andriichuk, and Volodymyr Minas
- Ethics of Cybersecurity and Biomedical Ethics: Case SHAPES, Jyri Rajamäki and Heikki Hämäläinen
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.15 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (cont.)
- AI-based Cyber Threat Intelligence Extraction from Honeypot Logs, Christos Iliou, Marios Adam Sirgiannis, Arnolnt Spyros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
- MAIT: Malware Analysis and Intelligence Tool, Cagatay Yucel, Adam Lockett, Ioannis Chalkias, Dimitrios Mallis and Vasilios Katos
- Strategies, Policies, and Standards in the EU Towards a Roadmap for Robust and Trustworthy AI Certification, George Sharkov, Christina Todorova and Pavel Varbanov
13.30-15.15 Digital Transformation: Organisations, Governance, Ethics (cont.)
- Evaluating Alternative National-level Cybersecurity Architectures, Todor Tagarev and Vasil Rizov
- Planning and Implementing Change in Cyber Security Network Organisations, Georgi Penchev
- A Study on the Readiness of Partners in an EU-funded Cybersecurity Project for Structured Post-project Collaboration, Todor Tagarev, Irena Mladenova, Antoniya Shalamanova, Ewa Konieczna, Lina Smovziuk, Georgi Penchev, and Yantsislav Yanakiev
15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.15 Plenary 3
- Software, Security and Resilience, Dr. Paul Nielsen, Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Mellon University
- Cyber Resilient Economy , Dr. Nickolas Multari, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
1 October 2021 (Day 3)
09.00-10.45 Plenary 4
- ENISA efforts towards a Common Situational Awareness Cyberpicture in Europe, Georgios Chatzichristos, European Cybersecurity Agency, ENISA
- Big Safety Concept and Resilience to Black Swan Events, Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Michael Yastrebenetsky, and Oleg Illiashenko
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.45 Cyber Risks and Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Essential Services
- Planning the Application of Drone Fleets for Monitoring of Critical Infrastructures Considering Failures and Cyberattacks: Methodology and Cases, Herman Fesenko, Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Ihor Kliushnikov, and Oleg Illiashenko
- Multi-sector Cybersecurity Analysis Methodology, Angel Genchev, Maya Bozhilova and Nikolai Stoianov
- Application of an Analytical Framework for Evaluation of Cross-Sector and Transversal Cyber Risks, Salvatore Marco Pappalardo, Nikolai Stoianov and Todor Tagarev
11.00-12.45 Cyber Ranges for Education & Training
- A System-of-Systems Approach for the Creation of a Composite Cyber Range for Cyber/Hybrid Exercising, George Sharkov, Christina Todorova, Georgi Koykov, and Georgi Zahariev
- Implementation of Federated Cyber Ranges in Bulgarian Universities: Challenges, Requirements, and Opportunities, Elitsa Pavlova
- Using Cyber Ranges in Cybersecurity Management Educational Programmes, Veselin Slavchev
12.45-13.00 Preliminary Summary and Way Ahead
13.00-14.00 Farewell lunch
