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Fighting Cyber Crime: Emerging Threats, Challenges, Trends and Solutions

Nowadays, IT and Internet are pervading almost every aspect of the socioeconomic interactions prevalent in the dynamics of our contemporary society, extending our abilities and enriching our lives. However, this also opens new avenues for various illegal activities and cyber crime that are increasing in seriousness, frequency and scale. In this context, the impact can range from identity theft (personal level) to cyber attacks on corporations, government institutions and public utilities (institutional level). In this talk, we will overview the main threats, challenges and trends. We will also share insights and present results on the level of sophistication, scalability and impact of some of the major attacks. Moreover, we will discuss different strategies that may be used in order to mitigate the underlying risks, attenuate the potential impact and provide support during attack investigation procedures. In this respect, we will also provide an overview and assessment of the existing capabilities in terms of IT security and cyber forensic technologies.

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Dr. Mourad Debbabi is a Full Professor and the Director of the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He holds the Concordia Research Chair Tier I in Information Systems Security. He is also the Vice-President of the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA Canada) as well as founder and one of the leaders of the Computer Security Laboratory (CSL) at Concordia University. He is the Specification Lead of four Standard JAIN (Java Intelligent Networks) Java Specification Requests (JSRs) dedicated to the elaboration of standard specifications for presence and instant messaging.

In the past, he served as Senior Scientist at the Panasonic Information and Network Technologies Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of Laval University, Quebec, Canada; Senior Scientist at General Electric Research Center, New York, USA; Research Associate at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, California, USA; and Permanent Researcher at the Bull Corporate Research Center, Paris, France. Dr.

He has published over 170 research papers in journals and given numerous conferences on computer security, cyber forensics, formal semantics, Java security and acceleration, cryptographic protocols, malicious code detection, programming languages, type theory and specification and verification of safety-critical systems. He supervised to successful completion 12 Ph.D. students and more than 40 Master students. He can be reached at debbabi@ciise.concordia.ca and his webpage.

Dr. Debbabi holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Paris-XI Orsay, University, France.

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