ISST Talks: Security of cyber-physical systems

Cyber-physical systems are essential for the operation of important domains, including but not limited to agriculture, healthcare, energy, and transport. The health of patients may be monitored through wearable sensors or environmental monitors; manufacturing processes may be regulated by Industrial Control Systems; distributed sensors may allow farmers to make decisions using high-resolution data concerning their land and its environment. 

The importance of these systems together with their multi-modal nature (consisting of hardware systems, software systems, and potentially human systems) makes the security of cyber-physical systems a priority. 

How can the cybersecurity of cyber-physical systems be improved? By gathering speakers and audience members from across government, industry, and academia for a presentation series and panel discussion, the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST) aims to identify solutions and actions that we can recommend to our national networks and affiliates for further research and attention. 

This event will be chaired by Professor Chris Hankin, Director of the Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-physical Systems (RITICS), Security Science Fellow at the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST), and a Professor of Computer Science. His research is in cyber security, data analytics and semantics-based program analysis. He leads multidisciplinary projects focused on developing advanced visual analytics and providing better decision support to defend against cyber attacks.   

Speakers:  

Professor Emil Lupu heads the Resilient Information Systems Security Group (RISS) in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and is a Security Science Fellow of Imperial’s Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST). His research interests include the cyber security and resilience of systems including their physical, digital and human characteristics and their ability to continue operating even when they have been partially compromised. His group have made notable contributions, on attack graph analysis, malicious data injection detection, adversarial machine learning and at the intersection of security and safety. For further details see: www.rissgroup.org.  

Dr Sofia Guerra (Practice Lead at Adelard, part of NCC Group).

Andrew F2 (Senior Security Research at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

58 Prince's Gate, 58 Prince's Gate, London, United Kingdom