The shift to a highly connected and digitised world brings not only new opportunities, but also new cybersecurity challenges. Today the cyber threat landscape is constantly changing and evolving. In order to secure our digital economy and society we all need to advance our cybersecurity competencies and adopt a lifelong learning approach. Especially, policy makers and technology players need to be well informed about cybersecurity.
In this vein, the CONNECT university kicked off its 2019 thematic summer school programme dedicated to cybersecurity with the session “Rethinking cybersecurity in the digital transformation age”. Through this introductory session participants had the chance not only to get a good briefing about the cybersecurity topic and the EU's main policy initiatives in this field but also to learn about the emerging cybersecurity threats and solutions. Especially, the session covered topics such as innovative cryptography to strengthen cybersecurity and discussed ways to enhance the cybersecurity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications.
Agenda
09:30-11:30 CEST
Moderator
Despina Spanou, Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Speakers
- Roberto Viola, Director General DG CONNECT
- Angelos Keromytis, Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Vincent Rijmen, Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
Background information
The CONNECT Univesity Summer School is the annual flagship activity of the so called CONNECT University. The CONNECT University is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate General on Communication Networks, Content and Technologies (DG CONNECT) which aims to inform about the latest digital trends and challenges which are highly linked with EU's relevant policies and serve as a platform for sharing knowledge through thematic discussions, workshops and seminars. It's main target audience is EU's institutions staff but very often the sessions are also open to the public via web-streaming or recorded videos.