14th Cyber Defense and Disaster
Recovery Conference
(CDDR 2020)

About The Event

Cyber Defense and Disaster Recovery (CDDR) is an annual conference organized by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) since 2006. The theme of the 14th CDDR conference is about cyber threat hunting and incident response.

Currently, we are seeing a surge in the number of cyberattacks putting companies and organizations at risk. These attacks include ransomware, cryptominers, and banking trojans, to name a few. The conventional defensive countermeasures, such as endpoint security and IDS products, are not capable of fully mitigating some of these attacks. We need to devise new defensive strategies to capture attacks currently occurring under the wire. Despite utilizing defensive approaches to mitigate cybersecurity attacks, some will be undetected and can cause a catastrophic outcome for the company. Companies need to be prepared and be capable of handling or containing cyberattacks in a costly manner. In this conference, our invited speakers will offer their perspectives on these subjects.

Announcement (3/11/2020)

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Springfield has made the very difficult decision to postpone the upcoming CDDR to fall 2020 due to concerns regarding COVID-19 pandemic. We do regret having to make this decision. However, the health and safety of our conference speakers, attendees, students, and staff is our highest priority. We will announce the new date for the conference in a few weeks.
We have already reached out to our attendees regarding this decision. If you have not received our email please contact cddr@uis.edu for the refund.

If you wish to get an email once we determined the new date, please register your email via CDDR Email List form.