The 2nd annual IFIP Working Group 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection is taking place at George Mason University, Washington D.C., from 17th March to 19th March. I’m attending this conference in person and will blog about its technical contributions. The conference program reflects research on a variety of CIP areas ranging from critical infrastructure modeling and simulation, metrics, interdependencies, security assessments, attack taxonomies, attack attribution, insider threat analysis, trust approaches, security hardening and intrusion detection, to policies and politics for critical infrastructure protection. Keynote lectures will be given by eminent cyber security experts such as CIA’s former deputy director of science and technology Ruth David, and former special assistant to the President with regard to critical infrastructure protection Paul Kurtz. I have the impression that this conference has gathered representative CIP researchers from US and Europe, and that it moves along the lines of S4. Should be technically interesting.