Baker Institute conference will look at ways to protect computer networks

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

With concern growing about potential threats to the nation’s computer networks, experts are debating ways to craft policies to address data breaches, cyberwar and hackers.

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A free conference on cybersecurity Sept. 3 at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy will give the public a chance to learn how the problem is being tackled outside the nation’s capital. The Baker Institute’s Technology, Society and Public Policy Program will convene a discussion involving experts who have worked on national cybersecurity policy and those in government, academia and industry who are charged with implementing it.

Guest speakers will include Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, co-chair of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security; Edward Amoroso, chief security officer at AT&T and author of “Fundamentals of Computer Security Technology and Cyber Security”; Anne Rogers, director of information safeguards for Waste Management Inc., former board member of Information Systems Security Association, past president of the South Texas chapter and contributing author of “Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms”; and Dan Wallach, associate professor of computer science and director of Rice’s Computer Security Lab.

“Constructing Cybersecurity” will begin at 4 p.m. in Baker Hall’s Doré Commons. The event is open to the public; however, space is limited. To RSVP, visit the Baker Institute Web page at www.bakerinstitute.org.

For additional information on the conference, contact Chris Bronk at rcbronk@rice.edu or 713-348-5939.