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Cloud Security Horizons Summit

The 2016 Cloud Security Horizons Summit will be held in Cornell Tech, in New York City, Mar 31 – Apr 1

 

We will organize summits to facilitate the flow of technology and knowledge between our research team and commercial vendors and cloud operators. These summits will be entitled Cloud Security Horizons (CSH). Events that foster interaction between industry and academia are frequently beneficial by merit of the (regrettably rare) dialogues and professional connections they create between the communities. Broadly speaking, they help academics understand real-world problems and technology deployment constraints. Conversely, they often bring to practitioners visibility into concepts and techniques outside or beyond current practice or mainstream. We believe that with careful and well-thought-out organization, however, CSH can not only achieve knowledge exchange, but also serve as a springboard for technology transfer and durable industry-academic collaboration.

We plan to hold three CSH events during the five-year span of this project, in its first, third, and fifth years. We will organize each CSH around a series of invited talks from researchers and practitioners, and plan to include three other components:

  • Cloud-security tool releases: CSH will serve as a venue to preview cloud-security tools by our research team and other CSH participants. They will be accompanied by tutorials or feedback sessions in which invitees are given hands-on demonstrations and their feedback solicited on technical and licensing refinements.
  • Vulnerability discussions: Researchers will preview any cloud security vulnerabilities with potentially affected industry participants and jointly explore procedures for validation and remediation of these vulnerabilities. We believe that early, closed-door discussions will engender critically productive trust among summit participants.
  • Problem distillation sessions: We will hold sessions for specifying research problems with real-world stakeholders. Practitioners’ expressions of the technical needs of industry will serve as the raw material and starting point. Researchers will work with practitioners to distill out the novel research needed to address these needs. The outputs of these sessions will serve as the basis for ongoing collaboration among CSH participants.

The 2014 edition was held as part of the RSA Conference on February 24, 2014.

For more information, please contact us.