Special Guest Talk! Dr. Max Kilger of UTSA

If you haven't heard of Dr. Max Kilger, I think you're missing out! He's a professor at UTSA (#1 for cyber security in the USA), and he has done some very interesting research in the field of cyber security and social sciences. Ever think about the human piece of cyber outside of technology? Why do people maliciously attack other parties? What are the consequences of cross-national cyber attacks?

This will be a LEARN meetup, and a very interesting one at that. DO NOT MISS THIS MEETUP!

Also, if you're interested in the Honeynet Project Workshop, you should talk to Dr. Kilger. He has all the information you need to be a part of it.

Title: Motivations for Malicious Online Behavior and Consequent Emerging Cross-National Cyberthreats

Abstract: Within the information security field there is a small core of social scientists pursuing research into the social dynamics of information security. The topics of interest include but are not limited to motivations for malicious online actors, the social networking characteristics of cybercrime and hacking groups, applying traditional criminal profiling techniques to the cyber environment, the nature and social dynamics of cyberterrorism and the nature of potential emerging cyberthreats. This talk will broadly touch on the efforts in some of these areas and provide a background to information security professionals on cyber-based threats to industry and national security in a new light.

Bio: Max Kilger, Ph.D. (max.kilger@utsa.edu) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems & Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Dr. Kilger received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University. He has over fifteen years of experience in the area of information security concentrating on the social and psychological factors motivating malicious online actors, hacking groups and cyberterrorists. Max has written and co-authored a number of journal articles and book chapters on profiling, the social structure of the hacking community, cyberviolence and the emergence of cyberterrorism. He recently co-authored the popular book Reverse Deception: Organized Cyberthreat Counter-Exploitationand is working with his co-authors on his second book Deception in the Digital Age. He is a founding and board member of the Honeynet Project, a not-for-profit information security organization with 54 teams of experts in 44 countries working for the public good. Max was a member of a National Academy of Engineering committee dedicated to make recommendations for combating terrorism. He is also a member of an instructional team for a NATO counterterrorism course. He is a frequent national and international speaker to information security forums, federal law enforcement and the intelligence community.