AGENDA
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09:00
The Future of IoT Security
Opening address by John Moor, Managing Director, IoT Security Foundation
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The Future of IoT Security
Security constantly changes; sometimes it ebbs and flows, other times it is more dramatic.
This is due to its many moving parts – from the evolutionary and revolutionary elements in the technology stacks, innovations in systems and applications, extended and global supply chains, toolsets, adversarial interests and capability, geo-politics and legislation. IoT cyber security is a wicked challenge. This session will commence with 2 keynote talks covering the technology outlook and business perspectives. It will then move into a panel session where we will discuss what industry needs to do to ensure we are fit for the future.
KEYNOTE
09:15
Past, Present and Future, the imperative of change
Prof. John Goodacre, Challenge Director, Digital Security by Design
Past, Present and Future, the imperative of change.
John Goodacre
Digital Security by Design
As the number of different products and deployments of IoT devices explodes its clear the traditional cybersecurity approach to “react and patch” is unsustainable. While the end user will always need to be able to update their devices, the device manufactures must change the way they consider securing their products. Likewise, the manufacturers of the underpinning technology must provide capabilities and features of their components that can help protect the end product from potential vulnerabilities in its implementation while blocking subsequent cyber exploitation and the costly rush to react and patch.
In directing the UKRI Digital Security by Design programme, it’s encouraging to see rapidly increasing interest and impact the Arm Morello technology prototype is providing businesses and researchers to assess the benefits of the embedded CHERI security features in protecting their software. In increasing product resilience and providing higher assurance solutions, these technologies also make common software errors predictable failures and as such provide higher developer productivity.
This talk will reference back to the 1970’s through to the next decade when new technology must fundamentally change the way computers run software and deliver secured products by design. Touching on the CHERI approach, we’ll investigate some of the evolving new techniques to secure devices by design and ponder how the world of IoT may change.
John Goodacre, Digital Security by Design
Prof. John Goodacre is the Challenge Director for Digital Security by Design and is responsible for the programme of funded activities and associated research agenda to realise a future generation of digitally secured computers. He also holds a Professorship in Computer Architectures at the University of Manchester having transitioned from been the Director of Technology and Systems in the Research Group at ARM Ltd. His career has delivered the first scalable commodity computer telephony platform, the first online data and video conferencing tools with Microsoft, the first ARM MPCore multicore processors and associated technologies. His roles today extend across both academic, industrial and government. His research interest includes web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and secured ubiquitous computing.
KEYNOTE
09:35
The Important Things & Future Security: A Business Perspective
Peter Davies, Thales
Biography
Peter Davies
Thales
I love what I do, approach everything with energy and enthusiasm and can always see an angle. As a Technical Director of Thales in the UK I have been their leading expert on Cryptography in the UK responsible for providing cryptography and information security direction and expertise on a variety of products and projects. Previous work includes the development and certification of flexible and interoperable commercial security solutions that are also widely used by governments; these solutions are available worldwide and support the security of both communications and infomatics in an international, multi grade environment. My specialist knowledge is at the core of the cyber defence and forensics activities that I undertake combatting existential treats against business. I can, and have, interacted on security and products at any level from Prime Minister, through Board to deep technical including Agencies, Certification Labs and partners developing and sustaining business opportunities worldwide. I have generated patents in the area of digital DNA and my research covers aspects of technical security as well as aspects of super-identities and their role in combatting human based cyber-attacks. I have lead EU security research contract and have acted as a n expert on others. As well as contributing to standards I am a frequent speaker at international conferences and deliver lectures to postgraduate information and cyber security programmes in the UK and worldwide.
PANEL
09:55
Prof. Carsten Maple (moderator); Prof. John Goodacre, Digital Security by Design; Peter Davies, Thales; Nick Allott, Nquiring Minds & Daryl Flack, BEIS
Biographies
John Goodacre, Digital Security by Design
Prof. John Goodacre is the Challenge Director for Digital Security by Design and is responsible for the programme of funded activities and associated research agenda to realise a future generation of digitally secured computers. He also holds a Professorship in Computer Architectures at the University of Manchester having transitioned from been the Director of Technology and Systems in the Research Group at ARM Ltd. His career has delivered the first scalable commodity computer telephony platform, the first online data and video conferencing tools with Microsoft, the first ARM MPCore multicore processors and associated technologies. His roles today extend across both academic, industrial and government. His research interest includes web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and secured ubiquitous computing.
Peter Davies, Thales
I love what I do, approach everything with energy and enthusiasm and can always see an angle. As a Technical Director of Thales in the UK I have been their leading expert on Cryptography in the UK responsible for providing cryptography and information security direction and expertise on a variety of products and projects. Previous work includes the development and certification of flexible and interoperable commercial security solutions that are also widely used by governments; these solutions are available worldwide and support the security of both communications and infomatics in an international, multi grade environment. My specialist knowledge is at the core of the cyber defence and forensics activities that I undertake combatting existential treats against business. I can, and have, interacted on security and products at any level from Prime Minister, through Board to deep technical including Agencies, Certification Labs and partners developing and sustaining business opportunities worldwide. I have generated patents in the area of digital DNA and my research covers aspects of technical security as well as aspects of super-identities and their role in combatting human based cyber-attacks. I have lead EU security research contract and have acted as a n expert on others. As well as contributing to standards I am a frequent speaker at international conferences and deliver lectures to postgraduate information and cyber security programmes in the UK and worldwide.
Nick Allott, NquiringMinds
Nick is the CEO of NquiringMinds, a British company with deep commercial experience in AI, IOT and security.
NquringMinds develops the Trusted Data Exchange (TDX), a platform for fully distributed and decentralised sharing and analysis of data. The TDX has won numerous industry awards for its innovative approach to both security and analytics.
Nick’s experience includes: CTO of OMTP, a mobile standards body publishing 30+ industry specification including the Trusted Execution Environment, Director of Webinos, an international open source foundation, focusing on self sovereign data and devices. CTO of Wholesale Application Community (WAC), a multi operator joint venture for application wholesaling. CTO of FastMobile, a VC invested Push to Talk and Messaging service, acquired by RIM. Engineering Director at Motorola, leading the voice recognition, voice assistant technologies. He has also held executive positions at Shell and the Pearson Group. With a strong track record in collaborative innovation Nick has raised over £100 million across VC, joint ventures and R&D initiative
Nick has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, and is Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Analysts and Programmers and the Royal Society of Arts .