News & Engagements

On February 24th 2021 Dr. Charles Harry, Director of Operations will be presenting new research at the Maryland Applied Graduate Engineering (MAGE) webinar. Summary of Talk: U.S. policy makers have increasingly coalesced around the need to develop a risk based approach for addressing the strategic effects of some cyber attacks. Both U.S. Cyber Strategy and the recently released Solarium Commission Report identify the need to assess and manage national risk. This webinar will discuss a new approach to assess strategic cyber risk by applying graph analysis and complex adaptive systems models to assess both the capacity and the propagation delay in the U.S. domestic air infrastructure. Leveraging 2019 data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, we explore national and regional effects stemming from a series of hypothetical cyber attacks against both airport infrastructure and airline networks. Results from this analysis indicate that strategic effects are highly influenced by air network structure and identify areas of regional risk that might require additional attention by federal and state agencies who are charged with assessing and managing strategic impacts of cyber attacks.

Join the Information Studies College (iSchool) on Friday December 11th in hearing a talk from Shauhin Talesh, Professor at the UCI Irvine School of Law on how managed security and technology are redefining insurance operations. Learn more and register for the webinars at http://go.umd.edu/stc.

Join the Information Studies College (iSchool) on Friday December 11th in hearing a talk from James Shires, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, University of Leiden, and a fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Learn more and register for the webinars at http://go.umd.edu/stc.

Join the Information Studies College (iSchool) on Thursday November 19th in hearing a talk from Dr. Donald Norris, Professor Emeritus, UMBC and PhD student Laura Mateczun focused on cybersecurity at the local level. Learn more and register for the webinars at http://go.umd.edu/stc.

MaGIC’s Director of Operations, Dr Charles Harry will be speaking with industry leaders and policy makers at Denton’s Smart Cities & Connected Communities Roundtable in May 2020. The virtual event hosted by the Dentons’ Smart Cities & Communities Initiative and Think Tank will focus on a number of critical and strategic concerns facing leaders who are seeking to take advantage of the revolution in technology and analytics. Held on May 19^th at 1200 EST, the event will bring together industry leaders and policy makers to discuss the challenge of securing new technology designed to create more efficient and transparent municipalities.

For more information and to register for the event please follow the link.

On April 23^rd, 2020 MaGIC Director of Operations, Dr. Charles Harry addressed the Armenian-Russian University’s World Politics and International Relations department on the challenge of strategic cyber effects on critical infrastructure. Dr Harry defined the nature of the problem and approaches that UMD researchers are taking to categorize and measure the risks posed by attacks on interconnected human and technical systems.

For more information about the event please see the event link.

MaGIC Director of Operations, Dr. Charles Harry, joined a diverse group of panelists to address faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the public on the problem of disinformation. The panel discussed how using false information with the intention to mislead is a technique that has been around a long time, well before we were all connected online. The internet has allowed these techniques to scale and spread, and that means we all are becoming increasingly challenged in distinguishing fact from fiction.

The event was sponsored by the College of Information Studies.

Former intelligence officials will discuss practical, policy, and legal factors that influence the planning and conduct of clandestine intelligence operations, how technological advances can affect operations in an increasingly transparent world, and the risks that confront intelligence officers and those who assist them.

National Security 2019, hosted by The Washington Center, is for university students to explore the protection of U.S. interests at home, abroad and online. The seminar brings together many of the top leaders, thinkers, and experts that the field as to offer. This immersive educational experience will connect the students with those from the agencies and organizations that tackle these issues each and every day. Some of the topics that will be explored through both expert presentations and afternoon site visits include: terrorism and extremism, emerging technologies, national security policy, Russia, border security, community approaches to national security, climate change and many more!

Getting the whole of government onboard — at least for the cyber warfare side of the problem — “really was a driving factor for the National Cyber Strategy” published last year, said Grant Schneider, senior director of cybersecurity policy on the National Security Council. The Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice, plus the intelligence community, “you name it in the government,” they all contributed, he said at the UMD conference. And publication was just the beginning: Recently, he said, “I spent two hours with about 40 people in a room… walking through literally a couple of hundred implementation items.”

Speaking Thursday at the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Executive Summit, Darby said 5G — which is expected to be essential for connecting everything from artificial intelligence to autonomous vehicles and smart cities technology — could pose a great vulnerability for U.S. networks if a nation-state adversary like China gained industrial control of its networks, especially with the connectivity of “internet of things” devices.

UMD presents the Executive Cybersecurity Summit on April 4 and April 5, 2019 at The Hotel at the University of Maryland. The two-day summit is a discussion and networking event that brings together C-level executives, including CEOs, CISOs, CROs, general counsels and heads of information security, who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the cyber threat landscape and better mitigating risks to their businesses.

United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), in conjunction with the Department of State (DoS), will be hosting its annual Central Region Cybersecurity Conference (CRCC) from 16-18 April 2019 in the Washington DC metro area. The CRCC is an annual, senior level, multilateral, multi-stakeholder event focused on whole of government, industry and academia perspectives on cybersecurity challenges facing the Middle East and the larger global communications community. It is a unique opportunity for minsters of communications and information, senior communications regulatory authorities, senior military cybersecurity officers, and Washington-based ambassadors from eleven Regional nations - Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to meet and share insights into areas of mutual interest. Dr. Charles Harry, Senior Research Associate at CISSM will be speaking at the conference.

The Maryland State Bar Association's (MSBA) YLS Tech Committee Event will see Frank Pasquale (Professor of Law, University of MD Carey School of Law), Markus Rauschecker (Center for Health and Homeland Security (CHHS) Cybersecurity Program Director), and Dr. Charles Harry (Director of Operations, MaGIC) as panelists on a discussion exploring Artificial Intelligence in the legal field

Chris Daly from ActiveCyber discusses Cyber Resilience assessment strategies, Risk Analysis methodologies, and Cyber topologies with Dr. Charles Harry, Director of Operations at MaGIC.

Come hear from the MITRE team behind the emerging Cyber- investigation Analysis Standard Expression (CASE). CASE advances the efficient and accurate exchange of cyber-investigation information between tools and organizations to lessen the analytic burden of government and non-government cyber investigators. CASE is intended to serve the needs of a broad range of cyber- investigation domains, including digital forensic science, incident response, counter-terrorism, criminal justice, forensic intelligence, and situational awareness.

Dr. Charles Harry, Director of Operations at MaGIC, spoke at the 15th Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity, conducted jointly by UMD's School of Public Policy and the R H Smith School of Business. The event was covered by Chris Daly at ActiveCyber. Learn more about the event by clicking on the link below.

Dr. Charles Harry, Director of Operations will be presenting at the 4th Annual New Jersey CISO Executive Summit on December 4th where he will discuss issues of risk and the evolving threat landscape.

On June 28 and 29, MaGIC Director of Operations and School of Public Policy research scholar, Dr. Charles Harry, presented a paper titled “’A Proposed Hierarchical Taxonomy and Sector Analysis of Cyber Events” at the cybersecurity conference in Oslo Norway. ECCWS attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, military personnel, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of the cyber security community. ECCWS is generally attended by participants from more than 30 countries.

MaGIC Executive Director Dan Ennis participated in a panel focused on public-private sector dynamics in responding to cybersecurity risks. He addressed how the government response to a major cyber-attack should work, explaining how DHS (in theory) leads a coordinating body. He also shared his views about the challenge with the current domestic response capabilities - he emphasized the lack of an efficient, effective construct for government to devise, implement and mobilize a strategy – including strategic considerations (like deterrence options) and operational tactics by sector to ensure preparedness, partnership and swift response abilities.

MaGIC to meet with Qatari delegation to discuss National Response to cyber incidents on February 21, MaGIC’s Director of Operations will meet with a group of Qatari officials to discuss approaches to national response to cyber events. The exchange is facilitated by an exchange program through the State Department.