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*