ISLAMIST CYBERTERRORISM:
AMERICA'S VULNERABILITY TO ATTACKS EXPOSED

When: Sunday, March 7, 2010: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Where: Marriott at Boca Center • 5150 Town Center Circle • Boca Raton, Florida

What it's about:
Our ever-increasing reliance on consumer and industrial technology to manage our homes, factories and infrastructure has been a blessing that unfortunately comes with a large potential price tag. The cost of this dependence is measured by technology's susceptibility to intentional disruption - not only by criminal elements but, even more importantly, by Jihadists.

This workshop will explore the nature of the threat posed to our ability to function as an organized society following cyber or electronic attacks, the capabilities of Islamist organizations or terrorist groups to engage in attacks of this nature, and examples of such attacks and what they may portend for the future. Presenters will describe those of our country's vulnerabilities that make cyberterrorism by militant Islamics highly likely to persist and increase in intensity, and what this situation means for average citizens and their capacity to protect themselves.

Participants will learn the concepts of cyberterrorism in layperson's terms and obtain a working understanding of key techniques available to radical Islamics and other extremists. In addition, a major discussion on matching enemy capabilities against perceived soft spots in America's resources will give attendees a solid grounding in situational awareness.

Principal Instructor:
Dr. Peter Leitner has a career that includes 31 years in federal government, 21 of them in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as senior strategic trade advisor. He has provided intelligence and anti-terrorism training to thousands of state and local investigators, law enforcement personnel, the CIA, FBI, Marine Corps and other national agencies through the Higgins Counterterrorism Research Center that he founded. Dr. Leitner, who holds a Ph.D. from USC, and four Master degrees, has served on the faculties of University of Northern Virginia, Mount Vernon College, Southeastern University, and George Mason University in its National Center for Biodefense; and, been a Senior Fellow with George Washington University’s Center for Advanced Defense Studies, and Advisor on Terrorism with New York University’s Law School. He is President of the Washington Center for Peace and Justice, a member of the Center for Security Policy's Military Advisory Committee, and former President of Maxwell USA, a multinational pharmaceutical firm.

Registration Fees (per person):

General Public - $50.00 Tax-Deductible Donation - Sign Up Here
Basic members of CFNS - $35.00 - Sign Up Here

Chairman’s Roundtable members of CFNS - Complimentary - Sign Up Here

Refreshments, parking and handouts included.
Advance registration required.