Online security experts from academia, government and industry will be at the UO April 22 to speak during the sixth annual Oregon Cyber Security Day.

Challenges facing researchers and developers will be the topic of the day's first talk, at 9 a.m., by Dan Massey, a program manager in the Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security. Massey will discuss online threats to computers, mobile phones, medical devices and building controls. 

Cyber Security Day offers a broad view of both current and coming issues involving the online world, says Jun Li, director of the UO's Center for Cyber Security and Privacy, who is organizing the event. Registration is free but required due to limited seating capacity. Introductory remarks begin at 8:45 a.m. in the Jaqua Center auditorium. 

The day's final talk, at 2:30 p.m., will feature Adam Wick, the research lead for mobile security and systems software at Galois Inc., a Portland-based research-and-development company that focuses on cybersecurity problems facing computer science. Wick will talk about how attitude change toward cyber defense has inspired a new philosophy that further guided new cyber defense solutions. 

Other talks will be by Ernie Brickell, chief security architect for Intel, and Gang Qu of the University of Maryland at College Park.

"We really want to help the University of Oregon to become highly visible for the good cybersecurity work we do here," Li said. "By having these distinguished speakers who are the top in their fields come to our campus is really important and beneficial. Our students, our faculty and the people of Oregon and the pacific northwest can be exposed to the best information about this very important topic."

See the Oregon Cyber Security webpage for more information and registration.