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Time

Session

09:30

Chair's Opening Remarks 

Sam Trendall, Editor, PublicTechnology 

09:40

Welcome Address from Matt Warman MP, Minster for Digital Infrastructure, DCMS

Enabling the UK Digital Revolution with World-Class Cyber Security

 

09:45

Keynote Presentation 

How AI Augments Humans: Closing Skills Gaps & Driving Executive Decisions

  • Security Challenges for Decision Makers
  • Accelerated & unpredictable threat landscape and its challenges for security teams
  • How AI augments the human: AI Analyst
  • Discussion of a real-world threat find and how AI defended it

Grace Wilson, Account Director, EMEA, Darktrace

10:00

Keynote Presentation 

Trusting AI in Cybersecurity 

Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo, Senior Researcher Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab

 

10:15

Q/A with Morning Speakers

10:30

Organisational Resilience - Session Sponsored by Egress

Email security for today’s risk landscape

  • How risks originate as employees use email and the impacts data leaks have
  • The effects of COVID-19 and remote working on email security for the UK public sector
  • Intelligent DLP for improved breach prevention
  • Risks and requirements when responding to subject access requests (SARs)
  • Key takeaways for your organisation

Jamie Davies, Public Sector Sales Manager, Egress Software Technologies

Sam Trendall, Editor, PublicTechnology (Chair)

11:15

Comfort Break  

11:30

Organisational Resilience - Presentation 

Continuity Planning & Delivering Local Cyber Resilience

  • Building resilience into digital transformation projects; protecting wider council networks and services 
  • Sharing up-to-date advice on information security threats
  • Raising the profile of cyber security amongst local government senior managers and elected members
  • Developing new interventions for councils and local communities

Graham Farrant, Chief Executive, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council 

Sam Trendall, Editor, PublicTechnology

12:15

Securing the UK - Panel Discussion

Delivering World-Class Protection of Citizen Data in the Management of Digital Services

  • Every passing second, the volume of digital information that flows between businesses, governments and people is expanding rapidly
  • How should we be reviewing interactions between businesses, government, third sector and the public?
  • Beyond issues of security, does everyone have access? Addressing factors which prevent access to digital services in the first place
  • Implementing systemic changes to this new digital world to ensure it caters to everyone, by design and default
  • How do differing attitudes to regulatory impact the state’s role in data protection?
  • Engaging members of the public as part of the UK’s data system
  • Using data to support secure and efficient public services and infrastructure

Dan Patefield, Head of Programme, Cyber and National Security, techUK (Moderator)

Dr Claudia Natanson, Information and Cyber Security Specialist

Prof Keith Mayes, Director of the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London

13:00

Close of Day 

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Time

Session

09:00

Keynote Presentation - Organisational Resilience / Leadership

Delivering Safe & Secure Rapid Digital Innovation

  • Rethinking cyber security and data protection at a time of necessitated digital innovation 
  • Taking the right measures and making the right investments to mitigate against risks
  • Ensuring that citizens are confident in the security and stewardship of data
  • How to implement consistent data security policies and training schemes to educate staff on keeping data safe when working at speed
  • Procuring technologies with a strong security track record and third-party tools to better secure data

Matthew Gould, CEO, NHSX

09:30

Working from home 2021

  • 2020 released us from the constraints of the office
  • Remote working compromised on performance and security
  • Now "work" is not affected by where you are or where your data is located
  • Zero Trust frameworks are a great enabler for working anywhere
  • Align to an overarching SASE strategy

Richard Meeus, Director of Security Technology & Strategy EMEA, Akamai 

09:45

Organisational Resilience - Presentation

Identifying Risks Across Your Supply Chain

  • Cybersecurity is never just a technology problem, it’s a people, processes and knowledge problem.
  • The work of the NEBRC: How a partnership between police, big business and universities is helping protect smaller businesses from the threat of online crime
  • Why don’t people take up cyber security advice? 
  • Delivering key insights into how organisations can secure their processes against malicious actors
  • How can organisations effectively audit suppliers?
  • Threat mitigation advice for the public and private sector
  • Exploring investigative strategies used to help identify weak points and boost greater awareness of supply chain vulnerabilities.

Rebecca Chapman, Police Superintendent and Director, North East Business Resilience Centre

10:05

Q/A with Morning Speakers

10:30

Organisational Resilience - Panel Sponsored by Six Degrees

Optimising Security for Remote Working & Service Delivery in a Changing Landscape 
  • What you should be doing now for the next 18 months to build a strong cyber security foundation ahead of cultural change, workplace change and Brexit? 
  • Discover how the changing workspaces are responding to cyber security threats: Practical advice from sector experts 
  • Understand your organisation’s new cyber security posture and risk appetite and align and deliver seamless working without compromise 
  • How you can adapt your cyber security strategy to a changing landscape and maximise your budgets making the most of what you have 
  • Learn from scenarios and ask your own questions: what are the most pressing cyber security risks, and what are the controls you can use to mitigate them 

Michael Carr, Head of Strategic Development – Cyber Security, Six Degrees

Alastair Cox, Principal Cloud Security Architect, Six Degrees
John Green, Head of Consultancy – Cyber Security, Six Degrees

 

11:20

Comfort break

11:30

Securing the UK - Panel 

Reviewing Cyber & Data Protection Procurement Needs 

  • Given the structural challenges faced by IT teams when purchasing technology, there is a crucial need for senior business leaders to review existing processes and sponsor a more strategic approach to an organisation’s cyber security.
  • Moving away from legacy purchasing models to more agile and effective purchasing structures. 
  • The latest technologies with a strong security track record and third-party tools: from AI to Cloud Data Storage
  • Assuring plans before money is spent; designing procurements and contracts and assuring service delivery

Simon Fell MP, Chair of the APPG on Cyber Security (Moderator)

Gus Tugendhat, Founder, Tussell

David Sulley, Former Diplomat (FCDO) & Co-Founder of Advai 

12:15

Close of day

Time

Session

10:00

Keynote Presentations - Data Protection / Information Management

Legislating Against Misinformation

  • Regulating social media platforms, maintaining civil liberties 
  • Scrutinising contributors to online harms 
  • Implementing legislation to tackle the"infodemic" 
  • Managing rumours about disinformation
  • Preventing benefit from the monetisation of false information

Julian Knight MP, Chair, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

10:30 

3 Years After GDPR – Reflections, Lessons & Moving Forwards

  • An overview of the biggest issues relating to GDPR and data protection reforms
  • International transfers, Brexit, and the data applications to the public and private sector
  • Reviewing the outcomes of the legislation and how it has improved data protection for good
  • Examining lessons from non-compliancy
  • How are future reforms, directives and challenges going to pan out in 2021? 

Matúš Huba, Data Privacy Adviser, Squire Patton Boggs

10:45

Where's the data? How to Find Your Biggest Governance, Security, and Privacy Risks 

  • Understand how to know where data lives within and outside of your organization
  • Learn the governance, security, and privacy considerations for collecting, securing, and managing data
  • Hear case studies about how companies are managing data challenges
  • See how data discovery can help with broader data governance

Joseph Byrne, CIPP/E, CIPM, Privacy Solutions Engineer, OneTrust

11:00

Q/A with morning speakers

11:30

Organisational Resilience - Presentation

From Culture to Technology: Delivering an End-to-End Secure, Digital Organisation

  • Securing an organisation starts with creating a better culture adapted to new ways of working
  • Incorporating culture into Security, Digital and Technology’s work on complex cases 
  • Preventing groupthink and achieving better outcomes

Dr Budgie Dhanda, Co-Chair, UK Cyber Security Council Formation Project

12:15

Securing the UK - Panel 

Looking to the Future: Ensuring the UK Remains a Leader in Cyber Protection

  • How is cyber security aligned within domestic and foreign policy?
  • Looking to the Integrated Review and it's impact on cyber 
  • How can government tackle future instability and prevent cyber conflicts that threaten UK interests?
  • Risks and opportunities for the UK in Cyber Space (Risks: growing digital dependencies, Opportunities: UK Leadership on cyber security -  practice, innovation and regulation)
  • Achieving true resilience: making everyone else resilient to cyber security threats, to build confidence in the digital economy
  • Addressing challenges at the strategic level to help prepare cyber decision-makers and researchers involved in the formulation of cyber-security policy

Lord Artbuthnot of Edrom, Chairman of the Information Security Advisory Council (Moderator)

Amo Kalar, Head of Strategic Influence, Cyber, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Irfan Hemani, Deputy Director - Cyber Security, Cyber Security and Digital Identity Directorate, DCMS

13:00

Close of Day 

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