They keynote speech of the first day was given by Pradeep Khosla from CyLab, Carnegie-Mellon University and was titled “Cybersecurity: Opportunities and changes”. Apart from the keynote speech, nine other presentations were given as part of the core workshop agenda. The presentations were around threats on the Internet and particularly  emerging threats to the internet infrastructure, malicious hardware, the business of cyber-crime, security of control and supervision systems and privacy control. After the presentations, five working groups were formed: large-scale software systems, network and monitoring, critical infrastructure protection, malware and finally fraud. Each working group discussed future and emerging threats concerning the group’s topic as well as possible collaborations among attendees. The day closed with a presentation from Thomas Skordas about the ICT Security Work Programme.

The second day began with presentations on various topics such as trends on e-crime, the future of malware, scalable development of secure software and security and dependability perspectives in air traffic. On behalf of FORTH’s DCS laboratory, Dr. Evangelos Markatos gave a talk titled “The future of Malware: From fun and profit to Physical Harm”, addressing the evolution of malware and how it can affect the physical health of internet users. The discussions of first day’s working groups continued after the end of presentations. They keynote speech of the second day was titled “21st Century Cyber Security Challenges – A Perspective from  Large-Scale Global Enterprise” by Ming-Yuh Huang from Boeing.

Overall, the 1st FORWARD workshop was a successful event with lots of interesting presentations and constructive discussions. Future and emerging threats is a challenging aspect of internet security domain and through the FORWARD workshop we had the chance to take a glimpse at the future of e-crime.