2022 INTERSCT. Workshop on cyber security of Internet-of-Things

Introduction

With the Internet-of-Things (IoT) we are seamlessly connecting the cyber and the physical worlds extending the risk area to safety requiring a broader perspective on security. IoT is turning out to be one of the weakest spots in our infrastructure. With billions and in the near future potentially trillions of devices, the security risks are growing at great rates. Our economic and societal forces are creating a perfect storm, a pervasive infrastructure of trillions of IoT devices which on one hand will oversee our lives and economy, and on the other hand will be completely unmanageable from a security perspective. To compound the risk, IoT systems are often devised and engineered in places where we have no control on, and unless we want to basically surrender our digital sovereignty by only relying on foreign solutions for our national cyber security, we need to find a way to secure them regardless of provenance and built-in malicious intents.

We cannot secure something we cannot manage, we need to rethink the security paradigm, delegating part of the security management to the system that needs to autonomously adapt to the changing environment, while remaining under our supervision, and rethink accordingly all our security technologies. We need to be able to design, develop and manufacture IoT systems-of-systems in a fundamentally different way enabling the overall system to become robust, resilient and trustworthy, even in the presence of individual IoT devices that are insecure or even compromised in a Zero-trust environment and providing the right ecosystem for their wide adoption within industry. We actually need to be able to design, develop and manufacture new types of IoT devices with security-by-design, security-by-default, robustness and resilience in mind; while continuously preserving all safety requirements, these devices must pro-actively manage their security, actively respond to attacks, recover from attacks, resume and restore themselves to a predefined level of operation following an attack etc.,

Program (tentative)

On 29 September 2022, INTERSECT is organizing the 2022 edition of its INTERSCT. Workshop on cyber security of Internet-of-Things. During this year’s edition, the focus will be on application domains smart energy and smart health.

• 09:45 Opening by professor Herbert Bos
• 10:00 Session on smart health
  • Invited speaker Maarten Bodlaender of Philips
  • Pitches by partners
  • Summary of session
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Session on smart energy
  • Invited speaker Paul van der Zee of Agentschap Telecom
  • Pitches by partners
  • Summary of session
• 16:00 Plenary ‘reflection’ on outcomes of session
• 16:45 Closing by professor Sandro Etalle

Participation

We expect all beneficiaries to participate, including the universities, the universities of applied sciences, TNO, and NWO-i NSCR and to prepare for each of these application domains a short presentation (1-3 slides) on the work they have done before on cyber security (of IoT) in that application domain and on the work they would like to/could do on cyber security (of IoT) in that application domain in the context of the INTERSECT project. Each beneficiary is requested to prepare one presentation per application domain. This presentation can include information on recently finished and ongoing national and European R&D projects, M.Sc. thesis projects, B.Sc. thesis projects, etc. Please coordinate these activities within your organization.

For the INTERSCT. Workshop to be maximally effective, we need your input beforehand and as such, we ask you to send us your presentations
at least 3 working days before the actual workshop.

Please note that participation in this workshop is only possible for professionals of one of the member organizations of the INTERSECT consortium.