Agenda

Economics of CNI Security

Thu Jun 15 / 13:00 - 13:45 CEST
06. Professor Siraj Shaikh - Swansea University

Professor Siraj Shaikh

Swansea University

This talk will introduce a recently launched initiative to explore the economics of security in critical national infrastructure (CNI) systems. The aim is to address both:

  • - macroeconomics, in terms of incentives and penalties around CNI security. This includes how decisions of operators, suppliers and governments affect key measures of risks, incidents and disruptions. This extends to understanding CNI supply chains (in terms of self-sufficiency and national security) as part of strategic industries, and where may tax breaks, subsidies and protection from foreign competition be effective; and
  • - microeconomics, studying the impact of digital and physical lock-ins, externalities and asymmetries (arising out of technologies and vendor-customer relationships), alongside organisational models of investment returns on spending on raising security awareness, and improving security behaviours and culture.

Siraj Ahmed Shaikh is a Professor in Systems Security at Swansea University (UK). His research interests lie at the intersection of cybersecurity, systems engineering and computer science addressing cyber-physical systems security for automotive and transport systems. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at CyberOwl, which is dedicated to risk analytics and security monitoring for the maritime sector. Previously, he has also held Royal Academy of Engineering’s Industry Fellowship hosted at HORIBA MIRA (2015-2016). Siraj has been involved in research, development and evaluation of large-scale distributed secure systems for over twenty-two years. His doctoral and post-doctoral research involved design and verification of security and safety-critical systems. He has recently co-authored a book on “Formal Methods for Software Engineering Languages, Methods, Application Domains” published by Springer (2022).

More presentations from Professor Siraj Shaikh:
The Future of Cyber Threats to the UK