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Watch live: The frontiers of cybersecurity policy and law

Join Passcode and the Robert Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin for a timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity.

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Passcode is proud to serve as media partner for a conference hosted by the Robert Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin. Please join us on Friday, Feb. 5 for panel discussions with prominent cybersecurity experts streamed live from this page. A full conference agenda can be found here.

As part of its Integrated Cybersecurity Studies program, the Robert Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin will host a unique and timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity.

Passcode will join the conference on Friday, February 5th. The day's events will include a symposium bringing together technologists, government officials, privacy advocates, and scholars to discuss four cutting-edge topics: the aftermath of the “going dark” debate; the evolving regulatory environment for the rapidly-growing security-research sector including export controls; the prospects for private entities to engage in “active defense” of their networks including the “hackback” debate; and botnet takedowns.

In addition to steaming panels live from this page, Passcode will also post highlights of the day's events on Twitter. Join the conversation with #UTCyber and follow us @CSMPasscode and @strausscenter. 

Featured speakers include:

Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, Stanford

Katie Moussouris, Chief Policy Officer, HackerOne

Judge James Baker, Chairman, ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security

Sean Farrell, Chief, Office of the General Counsel, Cyber Law Unit, FBI

Richard Downing, Principal Deputy Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Department of Justice

Kevin Bankston, Director, Open Technology Institute

Find a full agenda including speaking sessions and information on panelists here.

Event Details

Friday, February 5, 2016
8:00am - 5:00pm
The University of Texas School of Law
727 E Dean Keeton St
Austin, TX 78705

This event will take place in the Sheffield-Massey Room, TNH 2.111 and in the KUT Studio 1A, School of Communications. Registration is free and open to the public. Click here for details.

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law is a research unit designed to bring an interdisciplinary perspective to bear on public-policy questions relating to security and international relations. Among other programs, the Strauss Center sponsors the Integrated Cybersecurity Studies project, which aims to integrate insights from computer science and engineering with insights from law, business administration, security studies, other non-STEM disciplines. The Center sponsors a wide array of research programs and educational initiatives, which are described in detail here.

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