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WATCH: 7 editor’s picks for IFSEC 2019 seminars

Adam Bannister

Across three days IFSEC 2019 visitors will have access to more than 35 hours of educational content.

Covering social media, autonomous cars and crisis management, as well as featuring Frank Gardner OBE, Dr Dave Sloggett and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Tony Porter, the video below runs through seven of the most intriguing seminars taking place at London ExCeL between 18-20 June 2019.

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Find out more about my picks from the IFSEC 2019 education programme below.

#1. Can autonomous vehicles be hacked?

Has the rush to technology once again proven to be a dangerous path? Are we really ready for genuinely autonomous vehicles or are we creating not only more risk to safety but potential weapons? How long before cars come with biometrics instead of keys? All this and more discussed with Mike Gillespie.

#2. Secure by default for video surveillance technology

Attack aware – Secure by Default

As part of Surveillance Camera Day Tony Porter, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner for England and Wales, will be launching new secure by default/secure by design minimum requirement for the manufacture of video surveillance systems and components at IFSEC. Several high profile and well publicised compromises of systems demonstrated that they were being left live and internet- facing in an unacceptable security configuration. Some of these compromises, like Mirai botnet, that took out social media and financial websites across the globe, also showed the root cause was down to poor design and manufacturing. Driven by the need to ensure the UK’s resilience against this and other forms of cyber security vulnerability, as well as to provide the best possible assurance stakeholders, the new requirements are an important step forward for manufacturers, installers and users alike.

Secure by Default panel debate

As part of the National Surveillance Camera Day, Tony Porter, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner is launching “Secure by Default”.

Secure by Default are a minimum set of requirements for all manufacturers to ship network video products to installers in the most hardened, cyber-security-optimal form possible, with default settings which provide minimal vulnerabilities on first use.

The panel will be answering questions about the wider purpose and implications for the industry.

#3. Is the security world ready for 5G?

Increasingly, overarching security and intelligence handling systems are becoming greatly more connected and considerably more varied and flexible.  The arrival of Long Term Evolution (LTE), 5G, Internet-of-Things and similar technologies means that security systems, especially mobile security systems,will not only become greatly more connected, they will have to become smarter and, in data processing terms,faster.

The days of discrete security systems are coming to an end and old technology systems will be replaced by intelligence gathering, intelligence processing and data analysis systems. These systems will take data in many different formats from a wide variety of sources.

Once processed, the data would enable law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies to make important and truly informed decisions based on the empirically gathered, quickly processed and the easily searched data they have to hand.

Security systems that incorporate all the traditional security technologies (CCTV, Access Control, Intruder, Perimeter) will be connected to intelligent management and data handling systems where evolving technologies such as Video and Audio Analytics, Image and Audio Forensics and Artificial Intelligence will be applied to the incoming streams of raw source data. Without these evolving intelligence handing systems, we might just find ourselves overloaded and overburdened with increasing amounts of unsorted and not entirely usable raw data.

#4. AI and machine learning for security: has its time come?

This session will explore where AI is headed and if it can help move security practice from prevention to real-time threat detection.

#5. Modelling risk and crisis management for 2030

The risks and threats that the world is facing seem to be changing on an almost daily basis and this session will be part of the launch of the ‘ISRM Manifesto: Crisis 2030’. Whether it is climate change, severe weather systems, increasingly failing national infrastructures, IT dependency and systems fragility, pandemics, mutational viruses (both biological and cyber), and the increasingly destructive and non-recoverable nature of many of their impacts and long-term consequences, it seems as though the traditional models of risk management are no longer able to engage with – or even understand – how these emerging threats will impact on every aspect of our lives.

The panellists will explore whether the nature of the changes in these emerging threats are evolutionary, revolutionary or whether in fact they are mutational – in that they are creating a completely new class of risk for which the models and frameworks that we used to describe previous classes of risks will no longer be applicable, or even relevant.

#6. Social media and internet security: A new opportunity

This session focuses on the evolving relationship between social media and security and will consider multimedia content threats, traditional threats and social threats and associated risks including information and data disclosure, reputation loss, location leakage, safety loss, blackmail and cyber harassment.

It will also look at how social media data and technologies can be used to improve and positively influence security and assess how social media and social media companies can help businesses become more secure.

#7. How converged security centres respond in real-time to physical & online threats

 

 

The teams from Vidsys, Micro Focus and AXIS Communications will show how their technologies can be integrated in one centre, to prioritise emerging security risks from high volumes of data and respond in near real time. They will provide a fascinating view on how large events and campuses can be managed in a fast moving and dynamic environment. This includes:

 

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