This year’s Global Cyber Summit at the International Cyber Expo boasted an impressive array of speakers from across the public and private sectors, curated by the team at SASIG. The overarching theme of this year’s Global Cyber Summit was ‘resilience’. One notable talk that called for greater industry resilience was Digital Secure By Design on day two.
The session, chaired by Ciaran Martin CB, Oxford University Professor and Former CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), explored the Security by Design initiative, which is supported by the UK government and seeks to transform digital technology and create a more resilient and secure foundation for future tech.
The discussion centred around the question: How do we design a more robust ecosystem that is not susceptible to the vagaries of patching and zero-day vulnerabilities? With speed to market a priority for most organisations, and a lack of regulation to control the security of this process, software and hardware are often sent to market as insecure. Security by design should be the base standard for software and hardware development.
Speakers on the panel included Agata Samojlowicz, Deputy Challenge Director at DsBD, Michelle Kradolfer, National SBD Manager, Police CPI, and Jake Verma, CTO of Quantaco.
Why is the Secure by Design initiative important? According to Kradolfer, it’s important that “ecosystems of devices” (across home and work) are secure for people, organisations and countries. This must be done in collaboration with manufacturers too. Samojlowicz noted: “computers are currently insecure by design”.
The strong case for building securely by design is hard to ignore. Standards are becoming increasingly more important in all sectors, so why not standardise and regulate the building of software and hardware? T ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
