Agenda

The ICCS agenda is in formation, with exciting announcements to come. Please check back frequently for updates.

* Session times are subject to changes

 

11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
On-site Registration and check-in - International Conference on Cyber Security
(ICCS 2025)
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor Registration Area

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Law Enforcement Workshop (Law Enforcement Credentials Required)
Location: Law School, Room 1-01
On-site Registration available - 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Gabelli School of Business Cybersecurity Workshop 
AI & Cybersecurity: Threats, Opportunities, and Securing the Future >
On-site Registration available
Thaier Hayajneh, Director, Fordham Center for Cybersecurity, University Professor
Maria Chano, AI & Cybersecurity Strategist, ICF
Yilu Zhou, Associate Professor and Area Chair, Information, Technology, and Operations, Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business
Location: Law School, Room 3-04
On-site Registration available - 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception
Location: Law School, Murphy Veranda, 2nd Floor (Bateman Room in the Case of Inclement Weather)

PLEASE NOTE: Coffee, Water, and Snacks are Available from 11 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Soden Lounge

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Conference Registration Continues

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Bateman Room

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
General Sessions Morning*
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Costantino Room

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Conference Introduction & Welcome Remarks >
Barbara M. Porco, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Fordham University Gabelli School of Business; Conference Advisory Board Co-Chair
Lerzan Aksoy, Dean, George N. Jean Chair, Professor of Marketing, Fordham University Gabelli School of Business

Opening Ceremony
Master of Ceremonies: Amit Kachhia-Patel, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC), FBI, New York Office, Cyber Branch
Christopher Raia, Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC), FBI, New York

9:15 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Opening Keynote
B. Chad Yarbrough, Operations Director, Criminal and Cyber Division, FBI

10:05 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.
Distinguished Panel: Typhoons - Volt, Flax, Salt, and Silk >
Moderator: Marc Raimondi, Chief of Staff, Silverado Policy Accelerator
Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director for Cyber, FBI
Michael Sikorski, CTO, Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks
Kristina Walter, Chief, NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center
1 CPE

10:55 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: From Containment to Pursuit: How Modern Incident Response Teams Track, Investigate, and Disrupt Cyber Threats >
Moderator: Evan Perez, Senior Justice Correspondent, CNN
Anthony J. Ferrante, Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Cybersecurity, FTI Consulting
Stephenie Gosnell Handler, Partner, Gibson Dunn
Adam S. Hickey, Partner, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, National Security, Global Investigations & White Collar Defense
NY 1.0 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection - General; NJ 1.0 General CLE

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: Disrupting Lockbit Ransomware Gang >
David Malagold, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Cybercrime Unit, District of New Jersey
Terence G. Reilly, Acting Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) FBI
Michelle Liu, Supervisory Special Agent (SSA), FBI
Andrew Trombly, Chief of the Cybercrime Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey

12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Lunch
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Schmeltzer Dining Hall

1:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
General Sessions Afternoon*
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Costantino Room

1:20 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: How Media Reports on Cybersecurity >
Moderator: Steve Hill, Strategic Risk and Cybersecurity Adviser
Steve Coll, Visiting Senior Editor, The Economist
Josh Margolin, Chief Investigative Reporter, ABC News
John Miller, Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst, CNN
1 CPE

2:10 p.m – 3:00 p.m.
Fireside Chat: The Year of AI >
Moderator: Jason Healey, Senior Research Scholar
Matthew Knight, VP of Security Products, OpenAI
1 CPE

3:00 p.m – 3:30 p.m.
Keynote Presentation: Operation Endgame >
Carsten Meywirth, Director of the Cyber Crime Division of the Bundeskriminalamt, Germany

3:30 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break

3:45 p.m – 4:35 p.m.
Roundtable: Radicalization on the Dark Web; 764 and Others Gain Traction >
Moderator: Mike Levine, Investigative Reporter, ABC News
Robert C. Kissane, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, NY Joint Terrorism, Task Force
Andrew Richardson, Deputy Director, City of New York, NYPD

4:35 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: Critical Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery and Communications >
Moderator: Jordan Rae Kelly, Senior Managing Director, Head of Cybersecurity, Americas Region, FTI Consulting
Fred Scalera, Director of Program Management, AT&T FirstNet
Tomás Maldonado, CISO, NFL
Colin Ahern, Chief Cyber Officer, New York State, New York State Executive Chamber
Jennifer Lavoie, Corporate Media Relations, JPMorgan Chase
NY 1.0 Professional Practice; NJ 1.0 General CLE

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Cocktail Reception Sponsored by AT&T FirstNet
Location: Lowenstein Center, 12th Floor Lounge (Take Elevators 5 and 6 to reach the 12th Floor)

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Conference Registration Continues
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor Registration Area

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Bateman Room

9:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
General Sessions Morning*
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Costantino Room

9:45 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
Quantum Primer >
Elizabeth Rossi, Quantum AI Program Manager, Google

10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Distinguished Panel: A Quantum Leap in Cyber Threats: Are We Ready for What’s Next? >
Moderator: Geoff Brown, CEO, Silobreaker
Amanda Walker, Senior Director, Engineering - Security, Privacy, and Safety, Google
Rafael Misoczki, Cryptographer, Meta
Elizabeth Rossi, Quantum AI Program Manager, Google
Morgan Stern, Ph.D., Senior Quantum Resistant Cryptography, SME, NSA, Cybersecurity Directorate
Florian Neukart, Ph.D., Chief Product Officer, Terra Quantum
1 CPE including Quantum Primer

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: International Attacks: North Korean (DPRK) Remote IT Workers Fraud/Insider Threat and Beyond >
Moderator: Peter Marta, Partner, Goodwin Procter, LLP
Amit Kachhia-Patel, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC), FBI, New York Office, Cyber Branch
Jason Truppi, Co-Founder and CTO, ForceMetrics
Brandon Kappus, Chief of Intelligence and Solutions Delivery, NISOS
Rob Schuett, Director, Insider Intelligence and Investigations (i3), DTEX Systems
NY 1.0 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection - General; NJ 1.0 General CLE

12:05 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: AI and Cybersecurity Compliance and Regulation – Europe vs United States >
Moderator: Harold Chun, Director of Security Legal, Google
Sean Joyce, Global Cybersecurity & Privacy Leader, US Cyber Risk & Regulatory Leader, PwC
David Lashway, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Louis Crisostomo, Assistant General Counsel, Cyber Law Unit, National Security & Cyber Law Branch, FBI
NY 1.0 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection - General; NJ 1.0 General CLE

12:55 p.m. – 1:35 p.m.
Lunch
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Schmeltzer Dining Hall

1:35 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Afternoon Sessions*

1:35 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.
Parallel Sessions 1A, 2A, and 3A

Parallel Session 1A

Threat Actor Engagement: Target Objectives of Ransomware Negotiation >
Neil Hare-Brown, Founder and Chief Executive Office, Storm Guidance
Location: Law School, 3rd Floor, Room 3-02

Parallel Session 2A

Defending Against Deepfakes: The Future of Adversarial Media Detection >
Thaier Hayajneh, Ph.D., Director, Fordham Center for Cybersecurity, University Professor
Maria Chano, AI and Cybersecurity Strategist
Location: Law School, 3rd Floor, Room 3-03

Parallel Session 3A

Next-Generation IoT Security: A New Method for Detecting and Mitigating Malware Threats >
Koji Nakao, Distinguished Researcher, National Institute of Information & Comm Tech, Tokyo, Japan
Location: Law School, 3rd Floor, Room 3-04

2:05 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.
Parallel Sessions 1B, 2B, and 3B

Parallel Session 1B

FBI Case Study - China's Cyber Ecosystem
Thomas Parisi, Special Agent, FBI
Location: Law School, 3rd Floor, Room 3-01

Parallel Session 2B

Cybersecurity and AI: Bridging the Gap >
Diba Hadi, Ph.D., Principal Director of the Cyber Academic Engagement Office, Department of Defense, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Eman El-Sheikh, Associate Vice President, Professor, University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity
Location: Law School, 3rd Floor, Room 3-03

Parallel Session 3B

Next-Generation Combinatorial fusion Analysis with Generative AI: A New Paradigm for Robust Intrusion Detection >
Dr. Frank Hsu, Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science, Professor of Computer & Information Science, Fordham University, New York
Location: Law School, 3rd Floor, Room 3-04

2:35 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Coffee Break

2:50 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
General Sessions Afternoon*
Location: Law School, 2nd Floor, Costantino Room

2:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
The End of the Department of No >
Speaker: Andy Yolevich, Business Information Security Officer, Paranoids @ Yahoo!

3:20 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Fireside Chat: Responding to a Catastrophic Ransomware Attack
Moderator: Ed Stroz, Co-Founder, Consilience 360
Lisa Black, Former Chief Deputy County Executive, Suffolk County, NY
1 CPE

3:50 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.
Distinguished Panel: Next Generation Cyber Threats and Challenges >
Moderator: Sumon Dantiki, Partner, King & Spalding
Anna Mercado Clark, Partner, Chief Information Security Officer, Governing Committee, Phillips Lytle LLP
Robert Bair, CISO, Zscaler (IT Infrastructure), Former National Security Staff for Intelligence, Cyber & US Navy
Jena Neuscheler, Associate Security Counsel, Google LLC
NY 1.0 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection - Ethics; NJ 1.0 Ethics CLE

4:40 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Prosecuting Cybercrime - U.S. Attorney Offices >
Moderator: Erica Orden, Reporter, Politico
Alixandra Smith, Chief of the Criminal Division U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of NY
Amanda Houle, Chief of the Criminal Division U.S. Attorney, Southern District of NY
NY 0.5 Cybersecurity Privacy and Data Protection - General; 0.5 Cybersecurity Privacy and Data Protection - Ethics; NJ 0.5 General, 0.5 Ethics CLE