[AfrICANN-discuss] call for papers AfricaCERT VI - Djibouti during AIS Beyond connection: Internetworking for African Development

Jean Robert Hountomey hrobert at africacert.org
Thu Feb 20 21:14:21 SAST 2014


Dear Colleagues, Friends, Partners,

The African Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center; 
AfricaCERT invites you to submit a presentation/paper for AfricaCERT VI 
meeting to be held in Djibouti on May 31, 2014 during the Africa 
Internet Summit.

The Theme for AIS 2014 is "Beyond connection: Internetworking for 
African Development".

AfricaCERT meetings provide a forum for collaboration and exchange for 
Computer Emergency response Teams and interested parties on sharing 
common practices, information, tools, techniques, and strategies that 
address problems related to cyber-security.

AfricaCERT Day builds on the experience of previous AfricaCERT events 
held in different African countries in collaboration with AfNOG and 
AfriNIC.

AfricaCERT VI Day follows Three days of Intensive training in 
collaboration with FIRST and Two days of intensive trainings in 
collaboration with JPCERT.

Topics for papers would include, amongst others:

- The Role of CERT Teams in the Internet Ecosystem
- Sustainability of CERTs
- Country case studies
- Partnership on country/ regional levels
- Incident response
- Technical challenges
- Legislation Arsenal
- Tools and solutions

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

AfricaCERT Secretariat.

Presentation Guidelines:

Each speaker will have 30 minute session including Q&A
The Deadline for submission is March 31. Speakers will be informed by 
April 15.
Please send your abstracts, questions to:project at africacert.org 
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About AfNOG
AfNOG (See http://www.afnog.org <http://www.afnog.org>) is a forum for 
cooperation and the exchange
of technical information between operators of Internet-connected 
networks in
Africa.

About AfriNIC
AfriNIC (See http://www.afrinic.net/ <http://www.afrinic.net/>) is the 
Regional Internet Registry (RIR),
responsible for Internet Number resources Management in the Africa region.
AfriNIC organizes two Public Policy meetings every year (see
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/).


About JPCERT/CC
JPCERT/CC (see http://www.jpcert.or.jp <http://www.jpcert.or.jp>) is the 
first CSIRT (Computer
Security Incident Response Team) established in Japan. The organization
coordinates with network service providers, security vendors, government
agencies, as well as the industry associations.

About FIRST - Improving Security Together. http://www.first.org
FIRST is the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.
FIRST brings together a wide variety of security and incident response 
teams including especially
product security teams from the government, commercial, and academic 
sectors.








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