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Dear Colleagues, Friends, Partners,<br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> <span>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.</span><span
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<p><span>The Theme for AIS 2014 is "Beyond connection:
Internetworking for African Development".</span></p>
<p><span>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. <br>
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AfricaCERT Day builds on the experience of previous
AfricaCERT events held in different African countries in
collaboration with AfNOG and AfriNIC. <br>
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AfricaCERT VI Day follows Three days of Intensive
training in collaboration with FIRST and Two days of
intensive trainings in collaboration with JPCERT. </span></p>
Topics for papers would include, amongst others:<br>
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- The Role of CERT Teams in the Internet Ecosystem <br>
- Sustainability of CERTs
<div>- Country case studies</div>
<div>- Partnership on country/ regional levels</div>
- Incident response <br>
- Technical challenges <br>
- Legislation Arsenal <span><br>
- Tools and solutions </span><br>
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<p> <span>We look forward to receiving your presentation
proposals.<br>
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<p><span>AfricaCERT Secretariat.<br>
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<p><span>Presentation Guidelines: <br>
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<p><span> Each speaker will have 30 minute session including
Q&A <br>
The Deadline for submission is March 31. Speakers will
be informed by April 15. <br>
Please send your abstracts, questions <a
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href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','to:project@africacert.org');"
target="_blank">to:project@africacert.org</a> <br>
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About AfNOG <br>
AfNOG (See <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://">http://</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.afnog.org"
target="_blank">www.afnog.org</a>) is a forum for
cooperation and the exchange <br>
of technical information between operators of
Internet-connected networks in <br>
Africa. <br>
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About AfriNIC <br>
AfriNIC (See <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://">http://</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.afrinic.net/"
target="_blank">www.afrinic.net/</a>) is the Regional
Internet Registry (RIR), <br>
responsible for Internet Number resources Management in
the Africa region. <br>
AfriNIC organizes two Public Policy meetings every year
(see <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/</a>).
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About JPCERT/CC <br>
JPCERT/CC (see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://">http://</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.jpcert.or.jp"
target="_blank">www.jpcert.or.jp</a>) is the first
CSIRT (Computer <br>
Security Incident Response Team) established in Japan.
The organization <br>
coordinates with network service providers, security
vendors, government <br>
agencies, as well as the industry associations. <br>
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About FIRST - Improving Security Together. <a
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target="_blank">http://www.first.org</a> <br>
FIRST is the Forum of Incident Response and Security
Teams. <br>
FIRST brings together a wide variety of security and
incident response teams including especially <br>
product security teams from the government, commercial,
and academic sectors.</span></p>
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