/ Regional Arab Forum on Cybersecurity
Giza (Smart Village)-Egypt, 18-20 December 2011 /

18 December: Workshop on Identity Management

Day 1 – 18 December
10:00 – 10:30 / Inaugural Session
  • Mr. Ebrahim AlHaddad, Regional Director, ITU Arab Regional Office
  • Dr. Sherif Hashem, Senior Advisor of Minister of Communications and Information Technology from Cybersecurity, Egypt

10:30 – 11:00 / Overview of the event
This session aims to provide the participants with an overview of the forum and to have a better understanding of the strucutre as well as the objectives. This session also aims to set the expectations from the participants and the expected outcomes
  • Dr. Ahmed Elhefnawy, Senior Advisor for Arab States, ITU ARO

11:00 – 11:15 / Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 / Training Session– Workshop on Identity Management
The aim of this workshop is to explore the issues, technologies, and impacts of the federated identity management systems.
Trainer: Prof. David Chadwick
13:00 – 14:30 / Lunch break
14:30 – 16:15 / Training Session– Workshop onIdentity Management (continue)
Trainer: Prof. David Chadwick
16:15 – 16:30 / Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 / Training Session– Workshop onIdentity Management (continue)
Trainer: Prof. David Chadwick
19-20 December: Symposium for Cybersecurity Regional Roadmap
Day 2 – 19 December
9:30 – 11:15 / Session One–Enforcing appropriate legal frameworks to fight new and emerging forms of cybercrime
By adopting appropriate legal frameworks for prosecuting cybercrimes and overseeing their implementation by governments and law-enforcement agencies, parliaments have an important role to play in curbing the rising tide of cyber-criminality. The session will focus on the growing concern of businesses and citizens towards new and emerging forms of cybercrime and the legal measures to fight them
Moderator:Dr. Omar ElSherif – Deputy of the Egyptian Minister of Justice
  • UNODC and the Global Response to Cybercrime by Mr. Steven Malby, Drug Control and Crime Prevention Officer, UNODC
  • The importance of Legislation in the fight against cybercrime by Prof. Dr. Marco Gercke – Director – Cybercrime Research Institute

11:15 – 11:30 / Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 / Session Two–Establishment and coordination of national CIRTs and related meausures to protect critical infrastructure.
Moderator: Dr. Sherif Hashem, Senior Advisor of Minister of Communications and Information Technology from Cybersecurity
  • CIRT/CERT Baseline Capabilities by Mr. Anuj Singh, IMPACT
  • Evolution of CSIRTs: how to engage Critical Infrastructures and cooperate beyond bordersby Mr. Andrea Rigoni, Director General, Global Cybersecurity Centre, Italy

13:00 – 14:30 / Lunch break
14:30 – 16:15 / Session Three - Protecting children online
The use of the Internet greatly increases the risks that children face from predators. This session will examine some of the special provisions that some governments of the Arab countries adopted to protect children online.
Moderator: Dr. Hoda Baraka – First Deputy of the Egyptian Minister of communications and Information Technology
  • Oman’s Child Online Protection (COP) Program by Mrs. Aziza Al Rashdi, Executive Security Training and Awareness, ITA-OCERT, Oman
  • Egypt's COP initiative by Ms. Nevine Tewfik, MCIT Egypt

16:15 – 16:30 / Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 / Session Four - Assessment of the Cybersecurity posture in the region and national experiences
This session will give the regional current situation of the Cybersecurity posture of Arab countries and emphasizesome of the gaps in implementing national strategies.
Moderator: Dr. Sherif Hashem, Senior Advisor of Minister of Communications and Information Technology from Cybersecurity, Egypt
  • Dr. Ahmed Elhefnawy, Senior Advisor for Arab States, ITU ARO
  • Developing a Cybersecurity Strategy that Supports National Policy Goals by Dr. Frederick Wamala (PhD), CISSP®, ITU Expert
  • Cyber Security and e-Trust in the ESCWA Region by Mr. Matthew Perkins,UN ESCWA

Day 3 – 20 December
10:00 – 11:15 / Session Five – Emerging Topics I
This session and the one after will provide an overview on several emerging topics.
Moderator: Dr. Sherif El-Kassas, Professor of American University in Cairo
  • Future of Privacyby Mr. Bruce Schneier, Expert, USA
  • Trust Elevation through Contextual Authentication by Mr. Abbie Babir, Rapporteur of Question 10/17, and MBNA Canada

11:15 – 11:30 / Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 / Session Six – Emerging Topics II
Moderator: Dr. Sherif Hashem, Senior Advisor of Minister of Communications and Information Technology from Cybersecurity, Egypt
  • Emerging topics in data, application and infrastructure protectionby Dr. Taher ElGamal, Chief Executive Officer, IdentityMind
  • Digital Object Architecture(DOA)/Identity Management by Mrs. Sorene Assefa, IT System Officer, Corporate Strategy Division, ITU
  • Dr. Sherif El-Kassas, Professor at American University in Cairo

13:00 – 14:00 / Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 / CULTNAT Visit
15:00 – 17:00 / Session Seven – Roundtable Discussion on International Cooperation & Closing Ceremony
The absence of an internationally-agreed legal framework hampers the fight against cybercrime. There is a need to coordinate and harmonize approaches coming from different stakeholders in order to be able to fight at the global level cyber threats.
This session will be a roundtable of discussion to set the action items for the regional initiative on Cybersecurity, as the main output of the forum.
Moderator: Marco Obiso, Cybersecurity Coordinator, ITU (Confirmed)