CyCon 2023’s central theme is Meeting Reality. It seeks to challenge our assumptions about cyber conflict and associated technologies in general, in addition to their role in peacetime as well as crisis and conflict. Do our policies and legal frameworks stand the test of time? What technologies have turned out to be game changers and which have been overrated? CyCon 2023 encourages the discussion of concepts of cyber conflict as tested by real world events, addressing questions that might have appeared niche and theoretical just a few years ago, but now have proven to be of real life significance.
Topics: cyber conflict, multi-domain operations, National cyber strategies and policies, Private companies in cyber conflict, Non-state actors, Legal aspects of cyber recruitment, Biometric data processing for identification or targeting purposes, drones, autonomous capabilities, Cyber training needs before and during armed conflict, Military cyber exercises, Narrative control in/through cyberspace, Information and intelligence sharing, International law aspects of propaganda and influence operations, Cyber neutrality, Cyber cooperation vs competition between Russia and China, Critical infrastructure security, Cybersecurity of industrial control systems, Secured 5G and next generation networks, Cybersecurity aspects of transport industry (maritime, aviation, railroad), Satellite communication security, AI use-cases in cybersecurity, AI-based intrusion detection systems, Secured AI military applications, AI-based malware detection and analysis, Novel cyber-attacks and malware analysis in the context of Russo-Ukrainian conflict