DIGILIENCE 2021 Program

09.00-09.15   Registration

09.15-11.00   Conference Opening & Plenary session 1

Welcome

• Brigadier General Ivan Malamov, National Military University “Vasil Levski”
• Atanas Maznev, Deputy Chair, State e-Government Agency
• Col. Dr. Borislav Genov, Director, Bulgarian Defence Institute “Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov”
• Address on behalf of the Director, “Communications and Information Systems” Directorate, Defence Staff

Opening remarks on behalf of the Organisers:

• Prof. Todor Tagarev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
• Col. Dr. Nikolai Stoianov, Deputy Director, Bulgarian Defence Institute
• Dr. George Sharkov, Director, ESI-CEE & CyberRes Lab, SofiaTech Park

Plenary presentation:

• Brigadier General Vassil Sabinski, Challenges of Cyber Defence 

11.00-11.15   Coffee Break

11.15-12.30 Plenary session 2 

• Patterns for Describing Cross-Domain Military Interoperable Systems Architectures to Enable Decision Advantage, Salvador Llopis, European Defence Agency
• Challenges in Modeling APTs in Cyber Ranges, Prof. Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University

12.30-13.30   Lunch

13.30-15.30  Situational Awareness and Decision Support 

• Augmented Reality in an Enhanced Command and Control Application, Alexander Kolev and Lili Pavlova
• RSA Weaknesses Caused by the Specifics of Random Number Generation, Ivan Blagoev, Todor Balabanov, and Iliyan Iliev
• A Security Approach to a Military Autonomous Platform Path Planning, Alexander Ranov and Alexander Kolev

13.30-15.30  Security of Computer and Communications Networks   

• Computer Network Attacks Defence Tools Based on Extended Information about the Environment, Mariia Voitsekhovska and Mariia Dorosh
• Computer Networks and Cybersecurity Issues and Solutions – A Survey, Andon Lazarov and Petia Petrova
• Concepts in Networks and Communication Security and Graph Theory, Yordan Shterev Ivanov

15.15-15.30  Coffee Break

Historical Tour

09.15-11.00  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity 

• Host-based Intrusion Detection Using Signature-based and AI-driven Anomaly Detection Methods, Panos Panagiotou, Notis Mengidis, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
• Heuristic-based Intrusion Detection Functionality in a Snort Environment, Bartłomiej Gdowski, Rafał Kościej, and Marcin Niemiec
• Software Lifecycle Based on DLT, Biser Tsvetkov and Hristo Kostadinov

09.15-11.00  Digital Transformation: Organisations, Governance, Ethics 

• Mathematical Model for Determining Political Rating based on Social Networks, Oleg Chertov and Taras Rudnyk
• The Role of Information Campaigns and Advertising in the Military Recruitment System, Grigor Grigorov
• Analysis of Cloud Environments to Support Remote Work and Collaboration, Kristina Ignatova

11.00-11.15  Coffee Break

11.15-12.30  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (cont.)

• A Clustering Method for Information Summarization and Modeling a Subject Domain, Dmytro Lande, Ihor Subach, Olexander Puchkov, and Artem Soboliev
• Network User Behaviour Analysis by Machine Learning Methods, Michal Turčaník

11.15-12.30  Digital Transformation: Organisations, Governance, Ethics (cont.)

• Decision Support Technology for Roadmapping in Cybersecurity Sphere, Vitaliy Tsyganok, Sergii Kadenko, Oleh Andriichuk, and Volodymyr Minas
• Ethics of Cybersecurity and Biomedical Ethics: Case SHAPES, Jyri Rajamäki and Heikki Hämäläinen

12.30-13.30  Lunch

13.30-15.15  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (cont.)  

• AI-based Cyber Threat Intelligence Extraction from Honeypot Logs, Christos Iliou, Marios Adam Sirgiannis, Arnolnt Spyros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
• MAIT: Malware Analysis and Intelligence Tool, Cagatay Yucel, Adam Lockett, Ioannis Chalkias, Dimitrios Mallis and Vasilios Katos
• Strategies, Policies, and Standards in the EU Towards a Roadmap for Robust and Trustworthy AI Certification, George Sharkov, Christina Todorova and Pavel Varbanov

13.30-15.15  Digital Transformation: Organisations, Governance, Ethics (cont.)  

• Evaluating Alternative National-level Cybersecurity Architectures, Todor Tagarev and Vasil Rizov
• Planning and Implementing Change in Cyber Security Network Organisations, Georgi Penchev
• A Study on the Readiness of Partners in an EU-funded Cybersecurity Project for Structured Post-project Collaboration, Todor Tagarev, Irena Mladenova, Antoniya Shalamanova, Ewa Konieczna, Lina Smovziuk, Georgi Penchev, and Yantsislav Yanakiev

15.15-15.30  Coffee Break

15.30-17.15  Plenary 3

• Software, Security and Resilience, Dr. Paul Nielsen, Software Engineering Institute – Carnegie Mellon University
• Cyber Resilient Economy , Dr. Nickolas Multari, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory