The conference theme is 'Building resilient systems that address advanced persistent threats'. The advance persistent threat (APT) from cyber incursion and attacks on organizations and individuals is increasing and is threatening economic and even social stability. The aim is to explore the issues, problems and possible solutions to the APT posed by cyber attacks.

Resilience in systems is crucial to protect national critical infrastructures from failing catastrophically in the event of sustained cyber attack. These issues of resilience are complex and manifest, and require significant consideration and research. The solution to these issues is not wholly found in technical solutions to the problem, but in fact are a combination of policy, implementation and maintenance that uses a total system approach.

papers relevant to the theme are invited in the following areas, but not limited to:

Cyber resilience
Incident response
Control system security (SCADA)
Situational awareness
Intelligence
Risk assessment and management
Access control
Network security
Facility protection
Vulnerability assessment and auditing
Visualisation
Human factors
Outsourcing services
Organisation preparedness
Governance

Visit the Conference website for further information. Any queries can be directed to secau@ecu.edu.au