Symposia: Trust and Dependability (full-day)
Leaders: Phil Laplante, Jeffrey Voas, and Bret Michael

IT functions as the information and decision and control system for the operations of our public and private institutions in agriculture, food, water, power, public health, emergency services, government, defense industrial base, transportation, banking and finance, and postal and shipping. The resulting cyberspace-based infrastructure is a dynamic and adaptive system employing hundreds of thousands of interconnected computers, servers, routers, switches, and fiber optic cables that enable our critical infrastructures to support societal functions. Society has, therefore, come to depend upon and trust these systems. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the b est practices and research in computer security technology for networked information systems; their impact on infrastructure security in finance, transportation, utilities, health care, and telecom sectors; interactions among such technology; and issues surrounding privacy, ethics, legislation, law enforcement, and national security.

The day will be appropriately organized as two separate panel discussions. Panelists will discuss various issues related to the identification of threats, the design of systems that are threat resistant, recovery from attacks, human factors, and ethical, legal, and legislative issues.

Phil Laplante (plaplante@psu.edu)is Professor of Software Engineering at Penn State. He is also the Chief Technology Officer for the Eastern Technology Council. In addition to his academic career, Dr. Laplante spent several years as a software engineer and project manager working on avionics (including the Space Shuttle), CAD, and software test systems. He has authored or edited 22 books and has published more than 140 papers. Laplante received his B.S., M.Eng., and PhD in Systems Planning & Management, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science, respectively, from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Jeffrey Voas (jeffrey.m.voas@saic.com) is Director of Systems Assurance at SAIC and is an SAIC Technical Fellow. Before joining SAIC, Voas was the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Cigital. Voas has been highly active in the software engineering research community for over 18 years. He was the IEEE Reliability Society President for 2003, 2004, and 2005, and has been elected to serve on the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governors for 2008-2010. He co-authored two John Wiley books, is currently an Associate Editor-In-Chief of IEEE's IT Professional magazine, and serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE's Software magazine.

Bret Michael (bmichael@nps.edu) is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering with the Naval Postgraduate School.  He leads the Software Engineering Program at NPS.  His research area is trustworthy systems. Prior to joining NPS, he conducted research at the University of California at Berkeley.  He is the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Safety of Systems, a member of the Advisory Board for IEEE Software, an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Security & Privacy, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, a member of the IEEE Reliability Society Administrative Committee, and a member of DISA¹s Steering Committee for the Information Assurance Technology Assessment Center