March 14, 2018

Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things – where next?

Cybersecurity is one of the defining challenges of our age.  Malicious access to connected devices and systems threatens our safety as well as our privacy. What price do we put on privacy, protection and resilience; and how vulnerable are the systems upon which the modern economy depends?

Our world already contains more connected objects than there are people on the planet. This could bring benefits to productivity and efficiency, but it also poses serious ethical and regulatory questions. What do engineers and designers need to guard against when creating our interconnected and interdependent world? When every fitness tracker, medical implant, fridge, car and school gate is connected and controlled over the internet, who is ultimately responsible?

These are difficult questions that reach across government, industry and society. But practical solutions are now in development that deserve wider discussion and debate.

Speakers:

Prof Nick Jennings FREng, Vice Provost and Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College London

Paul Taylor FREng, UK Lead Partner – Cyber Security, KPMG

Prof Rachel Cooper, Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, and Theme lead at the PETRAS IoT Research Hub