Speakers
Bob Oates
Professor John A McDermid OBE FREng
Breakout 1
Cyber security incidents can have impacts that harm the viability of an organisation, either directly through financial losses or indirectly through the loss of trust and reputational damage that comes with being known as an organisation that provides technology or services with inadequate defences. In critical industries, the rise of digitisation means that the potential impacts now include the loss of financial stability of an entire country, physical harm to the general public, or damage to the wider environment.
The modern organisation needs to adapt to new technologies, such as AI and quantum computers, that bring new threats, and actively innovate within the context of doing business in an increasingly hostile cyberspace. All this has to be achieved while ensuring that cyber security investment does not become a financial black hole.
With the stakes so high and at least partial failure feeling like an inevitability, join us as we explore how modern organisations develop the culture, technologies and processes to move beyond brittle ways of working and towards being resilient in the face of cyber-attacks.
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John McDermid became Professor of Software Engineering at the University of York in 1987 and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Chair of Safety in January 2024. His research covers a broad range of issues in systems, software, and safety engineering. He became Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation funded Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP) in January 2018 and the successor Centre for Assuring Autonomy (CfAA) in January 2024. The AAIP and CfAA focus on the safety of robotics and autonomous systems and are developing assurance frameworks for autonomous systems and machine learning, either used as part of an autonomous system or stand-alone. These frameworks are being used across a range of sectors including healthcare and major transport modalities including aerospace, automotive, and maritime. He has advised government and industry on assurance and regulation of AI and autonomous systems, including contributing to the documents supporting the AI Summits in the UK, Korea and France and chairing the BSI advisory board on standards for connected and autonomous vehicles. He became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and was awarded an OBE in 2010.
Josie Houghton is the Cyber Security Lead for Rolls Royce SMR – with responsibility for the design and assurance of the cyber protection system for the RR SMR Nuclear Power Stations. She started her career as a Controls Engineer, working on projects such as Ain-Dubai – the world’s largest observation wheel, Dubai Metro 2020 extension and the Woolwich Free Ferry service refurbishment, and moved into OT Cyber Security in 2018. Since then, she has entered the Nuclear Industry, where she served as EDF’s Fleet IT/OT Cyber Security Manager for 2 years. She has previously been an active member of the ISA99 committee and is currently a member of the steering group for the NCSC ICS Community of Interest.
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