ARMSec 2015

OWASP Security Conference
05 December, 2015

About ARMSec

ARMSec conference is Armenia’s premier security conference. It will be held Yerevan, Armenia on 05 December, 2015. Based on the ARMSec 2014 we anticipate active participation of information security professionals, government institutions, academia as well as students.

The conference is organized and will be held by members of the OWASP Armenia Chapter.

Start Time: 10:30AM
Place: Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall # 106E at American University of Armenia

Call for Papers

Second annual information security conference ARMSec 2015 calls for papers for talks and workshops.

We encourage submissions of papers with wide range of information security related topics. Though papers with unique content are most encouraged, we will also be happy to include presentations on well known topics.

We have an option to selectively reimburse travel and lodging expenses for international speakers.

Possibly timeslots are:

  • 20 min talk
  • 40 min talk
  • 1 hr talk
  • 2 hr workshop (preferably hands on)
  • 4 hr workshop (preferably hands on)

Submission Details

Please send your abstracts to [email protected] before 20 November, 2015 and include these details in your email.

  • Your name
  • Phone number
  • Title of the talk
  • Abstract
  • Length of the talk (in minutes)

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Schedule / Talks

The schedule and the final list of speakers are on their way to be confirmed. There are still free spaces in the time-line, please feel free to submit your abstracts and we will be happy to add them to the list of talks.

Registration

10:30AM

Registration
Samvel Martirosyan

11:05AM Samvel Martirosyan

Keynote. Who we are: the story about Armnet.
Yeghisabet Alaverdyan

11:35PM Yeghisabet Alaverdyan

New trends in Real-Time Systems Information Protection
Detecting Side and Covert Channels in Digital Communications.Covert channel detection is to actively monitor the illegal information flow in the network stream.
Albert Toneyan

12:05PM Albert Toneyan

Armix
The Armenian Internet traffic exchange fund “Armix”. How Armix ensures uninterrupted Internet communication in case communication between two organizations fails.
Narine Khachatryan

12:35PM Narine Khachatryan

ICT and Internet usage risks and protection from various dangers
Various studies were conducted in different countries to identify the impact and character of the risks conditioned with the internet and IT usage by the youth. I will present the risks generated from the IT usage, international internet practices for the children, the implemented projects and the situation in Armenia.
Vahagn Poghosyan

1:05PM Moderator:Vahagn Poghosyan

Panel Discussion: Cyber Security and eGov
Coffee Break

2:00PM Coffee Break

30 minutes coffee break before the next talk.
Fred Donovan

2:30PM Fred Donovan

S&T Intelligence
The discipline of science and technology intelligence. Making use of open source information before it's expiration.
Aram Jivanyan

4:05PM Aram Jivanyan

Skycryptor: Securing the public cloud storages
Skycryptor is a cloud encryption gateway which goal is to secure users data in Dropbox without compromising the cloud service’s usability and convenience.
Hovhannes Aghajanyan

4:35PM Hovhannes Aghajanyan

Social Engineering as the Art of "Human OS" hacking
Main points of the presentation will be (1) Overall introduction on social engineering (2) Case studies (3) Defending against Social Engineering.
Antranig Vartanian

5:05PM Antranig Vartanian

How we lost privacy, and first steps to get it back
Will present the history of how we lost the privacy and then how to get it back. There comes role for Tails. Then will demonstrate a secure communication through PGP and OTR, couple of cool things from Tails and Full Disk Encryption for dummies.
Vaagn Toukharian

5:35PM Moderator:Vaagn Toukharian

Panel Discussion: bug.am
ARMSec

6:30PM ARMSec

Summary