In an increasingly connected environment, it is vital that new IoT capabilities are secure and do not pose business or enterprise wide risks. This session explores the strategic, preventative and real time response mitigations necessary to enable the growing use of IoT.

There are so many IoT devices but how many do we have? How can we identify them and manage their vulnerabilities? What is the business approach for SMEs and large enterprises? Examples of major incidents and real time solutions are explored in this session as well as practical insights into smart devices, what these look like in the business environment and how can these be attacked. What are the privacy and security implications of high volumes of IoT data leaks and the proposed solutions? COULD a strategic teaming approach help you look at the risk and latest trends from the perspective of all your key stakeholders? What are your responsibilities and how can an effective response be ensured?

Most of the home routers and small business gateways we use today are vulnerable and the devices they manage may have little or no security as well. The picture becomes more complicated when we include devices like wireless extenders, smart speakers, webcams, and applications on the network that have other pathways to the internet. What is the best way to reduce these risks in the future?

This session explores new advances in gateway and network security which consider the future and how to secure devices and systems using real time automated monitoring. We’ll be asking how devices get on the networks securely, who and what is on your network, how will you know what is happening and how can you control suspicious behaviour?

We’ll look at the value of zero trust, continuous multifactor authentication, collaboration, and onboarding. We’ll explore the hardware foundations and the importance of secure boot and how to successfully deploy this. How can you effectively update the system, and comply with regulation? Finally, all these elements are brought together in a holistic and intelligence-based approach which draws on the collaborative work of established teams in the field of gateway security to provide the basis for a new standard.

IoT Security impacts connected places from buildings, vehicles and factories to airports, critical national infrastructure (CNI) and smart cities. The complexity of systems and volume of devices makes this a challenge to secure. What can be done to manage the risk and keep these environments operational and resilient?

This session explores the challenges of securing IoT in large scale settings including buildings, vehicles and critical national infrastructure. What are the challenges faced by senior management? What are the risks of applied IoT security at scale? How can these complex systems be attacked and protected? Attention will be given to the importance of collaboration across the business to understand the cyber physical risk and the need for real time automated risk management. There will also be an in-depth look at case studies including buildings and drones. Can we achieve resilience? Solutions including a new look at systems configuration and stronger protective solutions for these environments promise a resilient connected future.

Chair: Rick Chandler

Since his early career in Military Aerospace Rick has been connecting “Things” to networks for over 40 Years. The connectivity was not always wired or wireless and included satellite and sub-sea applications. He has led teams building telecommunications infrastructure in Europe and Asia and worked in several other sectors including Petrochemical, Pharma, retail and Space. He led the team at BT building what ultimately became O2 after which he worked on wireless city projects and ultimately moved to a CISO position for 720 global customer sites. He started his own IoT and Smart Cities consultancy in 2012. He is active in technology mentoring start-up companies and judges several global communications awards. He was awarded the BCS Ivinson award for voluntary service in 2021.

Rick Chairs the Communications Management Association and is Treasurer of European security association EEMA. He sits on the BSI committees for IoT and Digital Twin.