Borderless Cyber 2015

Objectives—OASIS, in collaboration with The World Bank, will bring together public and private sector security professionals from around the world to evaluate, debate, and collaborate on cyber security best practices and tools. Driving intra-government coordination is an overarching theme.  Fostering interest and collaboration among countries in support of safe guarding critical assets from financial services to large public events will be featured on the agenda.  

Hosted at The World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, the forum program will feature presentations from experts responsible for cyber security initiatives for public, private, and global institutional sectors.  In order to facilitate meaningful interaction, attendees are encouraged to share their questions, challenges, experiences and recommendations with our expert panel of presenters. Current initiatives aimed at sharing cyber threat intelligences and response information in real time through systems and software will be a highlight.  Best practices, standards, specifications, and tools, such as STIX, TAXII and CybOX, will be part of the program.  

√ Driving Intra-Government Coordination Protecting Critical Infrastructure
While advanced nations can draw on sophisticated infrastructure to combat cyber security threats, many of these threats often originate from adjacent regions.  Reviewing a more regional focus between governments to ensure a unified response can be vital.  Those regional areas will also benefit from effective tools that not only allow international participation, but also offer local safeguards.

√ Initiating Collaborative Responses to Cyber Security Challenges 
Unifying responses to future cyber incidents and strengthen public/private partnerships to find technology solutions are keys to success.  In order to respond to cyber security threats in a constantly changing environment, strong international cooperation needs to be visible within individual cyber-security strategies. The cross-border nature of threats makes it essential to focus on strong international cooperation. This is our opportunity to bring the community together to discuss current cyber security strategies, different influences, successful approaches, and what may hamper international cooperation. 

√ Promoting Solutions & Best Practices
This conference is the first in a series of events designed to build awareness that countries should prepare to engage with companies and organizations that are actively looking at technologies for cyber and public safety collaboration internationally.  For example, standards initiatives, such as OASIS CTI, are working to connect the ‘cyber threat intelligence’ dots by developing open interoperability standards (STIX, TAXII, CybOX) to enable cyber threat intelligence to be shared among trusted partners and communities (M2M knowledge). The use of these standards allow security practitioners to build systems that will rapidly identify and access current threats, and determine how they act, who is responsible and what course of action is needed.  By streamlining this process, countries no longer have to spend valuable time and resources analyzing data in disparate formats. 

Participation—Executives responsible for developing, influencing and managing critical infrastructure security decisions are invited to attend this conference.  This includes: Chief information security officers, Security policy implementers, Chief executive officers, ICT directors, Chief information officers, Leading security standards developers (seeking to improve the state of cyber security on domestic and/or international levels), End users and solution providers from operational and IT backgrounds, and Cyber security staffers with operational, managerial and policy responsibilities at all levels.