Electrical Engineering-Systems Dept.

סמינר מחלקתי

You are invited to attend a lecture by

Dr. Gabriel Jakobson

(Altusys Corp., Princeton, NJ, USA)

on the subject:

New Directions in Cyber Security: Achieving Cyber Attack Tolerant Missions and Business Processes

Cyber attacks committed against IT networks and services have profound impact both on ongoing and future missions (business processes), whose operations are based on these networks and services. The attacks, by exploiting the vulnerabilities of the software assets can push their impact through Cyber Terrain – a dependency network of structural, spatial, functional and other domain-specific dependencies that exist among software assets and services, and reach the missions. In this presentation we will discuss a novel approach of assessing impact of cyber attacks on missions (business process) and show methods how to reduce the impact of the cyber attacks.

Bio: Dr. Gabriel Jakobson is the VP and Chief Scientist at Altusys Corp., a consulting firm specializing in the development of intelligent situation management technologies for defence and cyber security applications. During his more than 20 years tenure at Verizon he had increasing responsibilities of leading advanced database, expert systems, artificial intelligence, and telecommunication network management programs. He has authored a monograph and more than 100 technical papers and is principal author of 5 US patents in situation management and event correlation. He received PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia. Dr. Jakobson holds the Honorary Degree of Doctor Honorius Causa from the Tallinn Technical University, Estonia. Dr. Jakobson is the Chair of the International Conference on Cognitive Methods of Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA) 2011-2012, TPC co-Chair of the International Conference on Cyber Conflict 2012 (CyCon 2012), TPC co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications – ICC (2010-2013). Dr. Jakobson is the co-chair of the Tactical Communications and Operations Technical Committee of IEEE ComSoc and chair of the IEEE ComSoc Sub-Committee on Situation Management. Dr. Jakobson is Distinguished IEEE ComSoc Lecturer and has lectured extensively in Japan, Korea, Australia, China, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Russia, and many other countries.