Seminar: What might it mean for security to be sustainable?

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People talk about what computing can do for sustainability, but a more concrete and urgent problem is how computing itself can become more sustainable. As all sorts of things from medical devices to cars go online, they will start to need monthly software updates, or the latest security vulnerabilities will cause safety problems too. The safety case for your SUV or your insulin pump will no longer be just a matter of pre-market testing; it will need to be maintained. We did a study for the European Commission of the implications for product regulation, and it’s becoming clear that Europe’s ecosystem of safety regulators, standards bodies and testing labs will need a substantial upgrade. The way we develop software will also have to change. If I’m writing navigation code right now in Cambridge which will appear in your SUV in 2020, how will we keep shipping security patches in 2030, 2040 and 2050? What tools will we need, and who will pay for it all?


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  • Date: 03 Apr 2017
  • Time: 02:30 PM UTC to 03:30 PM UTC
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  • New York University (NYU) of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Building: A6
  • Room Number: 007
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  • Co-sponsored by Hoda Al-Khazaimi

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Prof. Ross Anderson

Biography:

Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University. He was one of the founders of the discipline of security economics, and leads the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, which collects and analyses data about online wickedness. He was one of the designers of the international standards for prepayment electricity metering and powerline communications; he was one of the inventors of the AES finalist encryption algorithm Serpent; he was also a pioneer of peer-to-peer systems, hardware tamper-resistance and API security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Physics, and a winner of the Lovelace Medal – the UK’s top award in computing. He is best known as the author of the textbook “Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems”.