APWG.EU Cybersecurity Awareness Symposium Examines Behavioral Interventions Against Cybercrime at Global Scale

APWG.EU is holding its fourth annual Symposium on Global Cybersecurity
Awareness in partnership with the European Commission and the Council of
Europe (Convention on Cybercrime) on June 26-27, to be held at the
European Commission Representation Office in Bucharest with the theme of
“Considering Behavioral Interventions at Global Scale”.

The objectives of the Symposium, inaugurated by APWG.EU in 2016, are the
establishment of global strategies for cybersecurity awareness
development – and the cultivation of research, measurement tools and
awareness assets deployed as instruments of cybercrime prevention
regimens, subject to the same rigor as any other kind of public health
measure.

The Awareness IV Bucharest review committee is receiving proposals for
presentations from: developers of awareness programming; curators and
advocates of awareness campaigns; and researchers on all behavioral
aspects of cybersecurity, user metrics and behavioral interventions
against cybercrime - and all related areas of public policy and risk
management. Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Cybersecurity education and cyber awareness program development
*
Cybersecurity awareness training metrics/evaluation of awareness
campaign effectiveness
* Case studies of successful cyber awareness
training / campaign
* Instruments that work in awareness: training,
hacking demos, etc.
* Techniques and tools to raise awareness
*
New techniques to train users
* Cybersecurity awareness in critical
infrastructure
* Case studies on a country’s legislation support in
cybersecurity education/awareness
* Metrics and techniques to
measure efficacy of awareness programming

Important dates:

Session/Talk submission: April 18th, 2019

Author notification: May 2nd, 2019

Symposium: June 26-27, 2019

The submission instructions and webform are available on the Symposium’s
notes page: https://apwg.eu/bucharest-global-cybersecurity-awareness-2019/

Awareness IV Bucharest coincides with the Romanian Presidency of the
Council of the European Union <https://www.romania2019.eu/>
in 2019. The timing and venue places this year’s symposium and its
discussions of awareness - as an instrument of programmatic suppression
of cybercrime - within a potent multilateral context.

APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy, founder of the symposium, said,
“Interest in the behavioral aspect of cybercrime and appreciation of its
role in cybercrime’s success has never been higher since APWG’s eCrime
research conference began receiving scholarly papers on related subjects
in 2006. Since then, our STOP.
THINK. CONNECT. cybersecurity awareness campaign has been launched
in 21 nations, joining scores of other awareness efforts worldwide.”

With industry’s increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity
awareness/education/training offerings, researchers from manifold
disciplines entering the space and the increasing interest of
enterprises, national government and inter-governmental organizations in
behavioral aspects of cybercrime prevention, Awareness IV Bucharest
promises to be a keystone event.

About the APWG.EU

APWG.EU, established in 2013 as the Anti-Phishing Working Group European
Foundation, is an industry association focused on unifying the global
response to cybercrime. The organization provides a forum for responders
and managers of cybercrime to discuss phishing and cybercrime issues, to
consider potential technology solutions, to access data logistics
resources for cybersecurity applications, to cultivate the university
research community dedicated to cybercrime, and to advise government,
industry, law enforcement and treaty organizations on the nature of
cybercrime. Based in Barcelona, Spain, APWG.EU is the EU chapter of the
APWG, established in Fall 2013 as a non-profit scientific research
foundation managed by its trustees for the benefit of cybercrime
fighters across Europe and beyond. (APWG, founded in 2003 as the
Anti-Phishing Working Group, operates as a 501c6 tax-exempted
corporation.) The APWG is the worldwide coalition unifying the global
response to cybercrime across industry, government and law-enforcement
sectors. APWG’s directors, managers and research fellows advise:
national governments; global governance bodies; hemispheric and global
trade groups; and multilateral treaty organizations. APWG is co-founder
of the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Messaging Convention, the global online
safety public-awareness collaborative and founder/curator of the eCrime
Researchers Summit, the only peer-reviewed conference dedicated to
cybercrime studies, proceedings of which are published by the IEEE.

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