Moderator - Jesse Sowell, Cybersecurity Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Speaker: Mircea Ulinic - Cloudflare, Network Systems Engineer, NAPALM maintainer, …

Dr. Catherine Lotrionte Over the past two decades, governments and non-state actors have become increasingly sophisticated in their attacks on the digital systems …

Tuomas Sandholm offers an overview of Libratusan AI that beat a team of four top specialist pros in heads-up no-limit Texas holdem, which has 10^161 decision pointsand explains how Strategic Machine is applying the domain-independent algorithms behind Libratus to a variety of imperfect-information games.

Security has been a large and growing aspect of distributed systems, specifically in the big data ecosystem, but it's an underappreciated topic within the Spark framework itself. Neelesh Srinivas Salian explains how detailed knowledge of setting up security and an awareness of what to be looking out for in terms of problems and issues can help an organization move forward in the right way.

As a community, we talk a lot about security goals and trade-offs and about the controls we may use to get there. What we don't talk enough about is first principles. Susan Sons shares the seven information security practice principles developed with her team at IU CACR and introduces a mental model for reasoning about security instead of trying to memorize for security.

Cesar Berho and Alan Ross offer an overview of open source project Apache Spot (incubating), which delivers next-generation cybersecurity analytics architecture through unsupervised learning using machine-learning techniques at cloud scale for anomaly detection.