Abstract: 

This talk is based on the upcoming NIST.AI.100-2 report “Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations” and adopts the notions of security, resilience, and robustness of ML systems from the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. The taxonomy is built on a survey of the Adversarial ML literature and is arranged in a conceptual hierarchy that includes key types of ML methods and life cycle stages of attack, attacker goals and objectives, and attacker capabilities and knowledge of the learning process. Corresponding methods for mitigating and managing the consequences of attacks will be discussed and relevant open challenges to take into account in the life cycle of AI systems will be pointed out. 

About the speaker: 

Dr. Apostol Vassilev is a research team supervisor in the Computer Security Division at NIST. His team’s research agenda covers a range of topics in trustworthy AI and cybersecurity. Vassilev works closely with academia, industry and government agencies on the development and adoption of standards in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity and contributes to national and international standards groups. Vassilev holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Texas A&M University. He has authored over 50 scientific papers and holds five U.S. patents. When Apostol is not working, he enjoys hiking with his wife and pursuing environmental causes.

Abstract: 

This presentation will cover the cyber services that are offered from CISA to both public and private organizations. The CISA Services Catalog is a resource that provides users with access to information on services across all of CISA’s mission areas that are available to Federal Government; State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Government; Private Industry; Academia; and NGO and Non-Profit stakeholders.

About the speaker: 

Dr. Rick Hays is the Cyber State Coordinator (CSC) from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to the State of Nevada. Prior to working for CISA, Dr. Hays was a 24-year active duty member with the Nevada Air National Guard, fulfilling his duties as the base Cyber Security Manager. He went on to fill a higher role at the Air National Guard Readiness Center, Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. In this role he led 98 Air National Guard Wings/Bases across the United States, in Cyber Security, for the last 5 years of his 35-year military career. Upon retiring from Active Duty in the Air National Guard, he went on to work as a Cyber Security Program Manager, at the Joint Forces Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DoDIN) at Fort Meade, Maryland. Here, he headed-up 3 branches; Cyber Fusion, Vulnerability Management, and Cyber Counter Measures, in coordination with the Department of Information Systems Agency (DISA), United States Cyber Command (USCC) and the National Security Agency (NSA). In his last civil service role in the National Capitol Region, he performed the cyber assessment role, for the Air Force’s Special Access Program (SAP) at the Pentagon.