Symposium on Global Cybersecurity Awareness Messaging at the United Nations in Vienna

In less than two weeks, APWG will be holding its second annual Symposium on Global Cybersecurity Awareness Messaging at the United Nations in Vienna. There we will be considering research from a number of disciplines to inform our understanding of how cybersecurity awareness can be made more programmatic and more repeatably effective in securing ICT users.

News: we overwhelmed the meeting space UNODC reserved for us initially (for 47 delegates) and now we have capacity for 127 delegates in a much more capacious hearing salon. This gives us capacity for larger delegations from the research, policy development and other sectors to convene.

Please do let colleagues from stake-holding communities know about this vital symposium.

The symposium agenda is still here: https://apwg.eu/apwg-events/cyberawareness17/

The agenda (due for an update) is already provocative and interest is very high. A number of inter-governmental organizations are sending delegations - and researchers from universities, industry and even the US Navy are sending top investigators on behavioral aspects of cybercrime - and of course our STC national curators from Switzerland, USA, Japan and Spain will be sending delegations to share their wisdom on developing their own cybersecurity awareness campaigns.

Agenda is still here: https://apwg.eu/apwg-events/cyberawareness17/

Our objective for this program is to inspire key nations' governments and private-sector stakeholders, global commercial enterprises and multilateral treaty organizations to adopt scaled approaches to upgrading ICT user behaviors in enduring ways - and to maintain them in public-health models of intervention.

Toward that objective, we’ve dedicated the entire August 30 program to research on upgrading ICT user behaviors - and measuring them rigorously - and programmatically informing user alerting systems with senior researchers from universities and industry. Of enduring interest is the research from Indiana University on large-scale (including nation states) survey of user resilience to common cybercrimes, a topic APWG directors and research fellows have been cultivating for some time.

APWG's plan is to release the survey protocol to university researchers and to national CERTs during or after the symposium so that they can cast their own national surveys - and for APWG to archive the (depersonalized, anonymized) results on the eCX for researchers to examine for innovative new research into behavioral aspects of cybercrime.

Looking forward to seeing you soon in Vienna.

All thanks,