The sixteenth Cityforum Cyber Security Summit agenda will centre around evolving cyber threats and the impact on our critical national infrastructure (CNI) – Meeting the urgent security needs of CNI sectors.
Themes for the day look at:
What constitutes our CNI and what challenges do we face in protecting it?
- How are threats evolving and where are they coming from?
- What will CNI look like in five years/ten years’ time?
- What are the priorities?
Where are we vulnerable?
- What additional vulnerabilities will new technologies bring? (AI, autonomous vehicles, drones, etc).
- Do we have sufficient control over supply chains and our national assets (sovereignty)?
- Are we over-reliant on foreign investment?
- Is our data infrastructure resilient?
- What are the legacy issues?
Meeting the challenges – responsibility, regulation, resilience
- Who is responsible for compliance? Is the legal framework adequate?
- What might ‘regulating for resilience’ look like?
- How might CNI institutions and arrangements need to evolve (geographical dispersal, load sharing across multiple sites and avoidance of single points of failure, as well as green issues and energy resilience)?
- How can threat information be shared appropriately between public and private sectors?
- How do we strengthen the skills and capabilities we need to protect our CNI?
- To what extent should we consider analogue fallbacks?