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A Few Words about the 7th Worldwide Security Conference

February 22, 2010 By Ali Jahangiri

Brussels witnessed another Worldwide Security Conference organized by the East West Institute (EWI). The 7th Worldwide Security Conference (7WSC) was different from the previous year’s conference by having different tracks for each day and an additional day on February 18, dedicated to cybersecurity.

EWI organized a cybersecurity initiative at the 6th Worldwide Security Conference in 2009 by having a workshop about cybersecurity and later on by the efforts of John Morz, the president of EWI, and Karl Rauscher from Bell Lab it became an official project under the direction of Vartan Sarkissian. In October 2009, EWI in cooperation with the IEEE Communication Society and with the support of its former president, Dr. Curtis Siller, organized The Reliability of Global Undersea Communications Cable Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) Global Summit in Dubai, to remind us of the importance of undersea cables and their vulnerabilities.

International Pathways to Cybersecurity day on February 18 was, from my point of view, a great step after ROGUCCI to take the EWI cybersecurity initiative to another level. Nevertheless this event could have been better by having more participants from industry rather than politicians. However, the presence of politicians could be useful to have a dialog at the international level and between governments. However, as long as we do not have a clear pathway to address the technical issues and prioritize them, the presence of the politicians may mean that the EWI ends up with hundreds of meetings and recommendations without any action.

Cyberspace security is an important issue to everyone including governments. The cyberspace of a country might be considered to be a territory of that country or its critical infrastructure.  Although, the Internet has no border there are many possibilities to draw a line and define borders by routing protocols and filtering. This is the tough part of the cyberspace security issue because it needs to be addressed by governments for both domestic and international usage. This makes the job of the EWI cybersecurity initiative more difficult, because governments do not like to give much information about their policies and do not like to listen to others if they have a problem with liberty in the information age. In addition, there are many governments without any laws and regulations for cyberspace to address their needs. From my point of view it will be impossible for them to cooperate internationally with other countries if they have no clear pathway for their own cyberspace.

Nevertheless, the efforts of the EWI and the participants should be continued to create a very secure and reliable cyberspace without compromising information liberty.

Filed Under: cybersecurity, Events Tagged With: analysis, Conference, Opinion, World Wide Security

EWI’s Seventh Annual Worldwide Security Conference

February 1, 2010 By Ali Jahangiri

Dr. Jahangiri has been invited to give speak for Special Consultation on “International Pathways to Cybersecurity” as part of the EastWest Institute’s 7th Worldwide Security Conference (WSC) on 17 February 2010 in Brussels.

EWI’s seventh annual Worldwide Security Conference (WSC7) is a platform to reframe perceptions of international security threats and opportunities and determine concrete steps to protect people, economies and infrastructure around the world.

The seventh annual Worldwide Security Conference will:

  • Continue our tradition of articulating new goals for global security and the steps needed to achieve them
  • Stimulate progressive improvement in the way global security is managed and reviewed
  • Bring together leading policy makers, specialists, business executives, community leaders and journalists from around the world for debate and networking.

Topics at WSC7 will include:

  • Cyber threats, financial risk and economic security
  • Economic crisis: social radicalization and risk management
  • Business resilience after bio-threats
  • Cyber threats: Russian, Indian and Chinese perspectives
  • Trade recovery contingencies after terrorist attacks
  • Integration of Russian ICT systems into European infrastructure
  • Business leaders’ role in international cybersecurity
  • Towards a global Energy Security Council
  • Customs organizations and online criminal activities
  • Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Economic Cooperation
  • Counter-radicalization in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • NATO goes global? What role for Russia?
  • International Pathways to Cybersecurity: A special one-day, invitation-only consultation.

Please visit http://www.ewi.info/wsc7 for more information.

Filed Under: cybersecurity, Events Tagged With: Conference, Event, World Wide Security

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