Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown

Wed Jan 28 2026 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+00:00

The University of Manchester | Manchester

Digital Futures
Publisher/HostDigital Futures
Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown
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Explore adversarial assurance of real-world PETs to address design limits, implementation flaws, and evolving data needs for businesses
About this Event

This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions.

Talk Title: Challenges with real world Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) assurance

Deploying Privacy Enhancing Technologies into live, dynamic systems introduces new risks around:

  • Design limitations
  • Imperfect implementations
  • Changing data, applications, roles and business needs

NCC Group will talk about how they leverage their expertise in security testing, data privacy and engineering to bring an adversarial approach to assuring PETS implementations at scale. To help businesses get more value from the data they collect whilst confidently stating that their customers data is adequately protected by leading edge PETS.

Speaker Biography:

Justin McKeown is a Principal Cyber Security Consultant with NCC Group. He currently leads the Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) team for NCC Group on TikTok's Project Clover. Prior to joining NCC Group Justin worked as an academic for over 16 years and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He has worked for several different universities and founded the Computer Science department at York St John University. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford's Software & Systems Security programme, and has participated in a number of recent professional initiatives, notably the UK Cyber Security Council's ethics panel.

Connect with the Centre for Digital Trust and Society

The Centre for Digital Trust and Society organises the DTS Guest Seminar Series and is a focal point for research across the University of Manchester that explores aspects of trust and security in our digital world. The Centre is part of Digital Futures, a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University of Manchester's digital research.

About Digital Futures:

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. We aim to present a coherent overview of The University of Manchester's digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.

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The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom

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