Cyber Warfare, Fake News, Corporate Data Collection, Wikileaks, Hacks and Immigration: National Security in a Cyber World

General Program Chair: Mark B. Rosen, Esq., Law Offices of Mark B. Rosen; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration; Brooklyn Law School
Faculty (In Formation): Joseph J. Bambara, UCNY, Inc.; Co-Chair, NYCLA’s Committee on Law and Technology; William C. Banks, Founding Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University Law School; Author, Soldiers on the Home Front; General Dan Bren, Israeli Defense Forces Cyber Command; John Cronan, Chief, Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit, U.S. Attorney's Office, S.D.N.Y.; Constantinos Daskalakis, MIT, Associate Professor,  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and Member of CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory); Laura Donohue, Director, Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security and the Law; Author, The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age; Seth Ducharme, Chief, National Security and Cybercrime Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office, E.D.N.Y.; Tina Foster, The Law Firm of Tina Foster; Bruce Green, Louis Stein Chair of Law; Director, Stein Center at Fordham University School of Law; Joshua J. Horowitz, Tech Law NY; Steven J. Hyman, McLaughlin & Stern; Matthew J. Miraglia, Assistant Special Agent In-Charge (ASAC) Federal Bureau of Investigation; Colleen C. Piccone, Associate Chief Counsel, NY, United States Customs & Border Protection; Gene Policinski, COO, Newseum Institute and of the Institute’s First Amendment Center; Bruce Schneier, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Resilient; Fellow, Harvard's Berkman Center; Board Member, Electronic frontier Foundation (EFF); Author, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World; Lawrence Solan, Brooklyn Law School, Director, Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition; Gabriel Taran, Assistant General Counsel for Cybersecurity, Department Homeland Security, Office of the General Counsel; Michael J. Wildes, Wildes & Weinberg P.C.
Join us for our third annual program that seeks to inform the public, lawyers, corporations and national security practitioners about the latest developments in the area of national security. Using a panel format comprised of experts in their fields, we will look at today’s ever changing technological climate, the threat of cyberwarfare, hacks, leaks and fake news, as well as other world developments that are forcing our government to weigh personal privacy against a backdrop[ of protecting our national security from an ever growing and rapidly changing threat environment.
Topics to be addressed include:

The Refugee Threat to National Security: Real or Hyped

Soldiers on the Home Front: A Conversation with the Author and Hypothetical Cyber Attack Discussion

Cybersecurity as Warfare: Applying the Laws of War to Cybersecurity

Are We Be Ready for a Russian Zero Day Exploit if the Executive Branch Does not Trust the Intelligence Community?

Artificial Intelligence and Deep-Learning: The Future of Computer Assisted Counterterrorism Analysis

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World -- A Conversation with the Author, Bruce Schneier

Distortion of Language and Changing the Meaning of WORDS: The Impact on National Security; Is There an Ethical Obligation for the Government Not to Refute What is “True?”

The Role of the Media in the World of Fake News: The Importance of a Free and Independent Press in National Security

Balancing Counterterrorism, Immigration, National Security and Safety in the Digital Age

Ethics and Technology: The Lawyer’s Role in the Emerging Cyber World

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