Schedule

7:30 - 8:30 Registration

8:30 Opening and Welcome

Ernesto Vázquez Barquet, President, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Dr. Alfredo Cruz, Founder & Director, Center of Information Assurance for Research and Education (CIARE), Conference Chair

9:00 Ethical Hacker’s Process and Tools

Mario Reyes, NSF Scholar

9:20 Ransomware: What is it? What to do?

Carlos Vélez, NSF Scholar, Graduate Student in Cybersecurity

9:40 Promoting Cybersecurity Among Young Females: GenCyber Camp in Cybersecurity (sponsored by NSA and NSF)

Dr. Miriam Pabón, Dean, Graduate College, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Trends in Cybersecurity

Agent Rex Bradley, FBI

11:00 Cyber Security Research: A Data Scientist’s Perspective

Celeste Matarazzo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

12:00 Lunch at Milla de Oro Room, Library

1:00 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework

John R. Robles, Cybersecurity Consultant, President, CISA, CISM, John R. Robles & Associates

1:30 Internet of Things: Security and Privacy

Dr. Jeff Duffany, Associate Professor Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

2:00 Data brokers, Third-party Data Reseller and Privacy Issues

Dr. Aury Curbelo (Professor, Researcher and Information Security Consultant), CEO and Founder, Digetech Inc.

2:30 "Re-thinking" Effective Implementation of Cybersecurity Controls

Michael Ferris, CEO, Abacode

Jeremy Rasmussen (CISSP, EH, PMP, MBA) Cybersecurity Director, Abacode

3:00 Student Panel: Experiences in "Capturing the Flag"

Eduardo L. Bonnet, Yoshuam Alicea, Carlos Vélez, Steven Aguila, Students in Cybersecurity at PUPR

3:30 Raffle*

* Participants must be present at the time of the raffle and only one gift per participant.

Light breakfast and lunch is included free of cost.

Contact Program Chair Dr. Zayira Jordan at zjordan@pupr.edu.

Conference Supported by the NSF-SFS Program and Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.