Side events on April 29 and May 1 - GCSCC 10th Anniversary Conference
As part of the GCSCC Annual Conference 2024 there are a couple of side events at the Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD on 29 April (Monday) and 1 May (Wednesday)
All events have limited in-person capacity, therefore please register using the links below as soon as possible if you wish to participate in Oxford. For remote participation in the hybrid events, please register with the Zoom link provided for respective session.
Monday, 29 April
10.00-12.30 "David versus Goliath: Cybersecurity Challenges for SMEs". Workshop.
Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom
Discussion of cybersecurity in organisations has been focused largely on major institutions and large organisations. But major proportions of the workforce are employed in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) along with sole proprietors, self-employed individuals, and those working remotely, such as from their household – working from home (WFH). This workshop focuses on issues tied to cybersecurity in these smaller enterprises that collectively employ large numbers of individuals. How well are SMEs prepared to protect themselves in the digital age? What are the variations within these smaller enterprises on such dimensions of cybersecurity as their technology, awareness, and training? How well can the lessons learned in larger enterprises be scaled down to these smaller enterprises? How can communication and support be improved between the frequently siloed groups that are all a part of our overall cybersecurity defenses for SMEs? This workshop is an opportunity to hear from industry leaders, government representatives and SMEs as well as researchers on how to build networks of communication as well as develop mutual resources. Lessons will be drawn from London’s Cyber Resilience Centre on the challenges to reducing their vulnerability to cybercrime and leading practitioners and academics in the cybersecurity field. This workshop hosted by Richard Starnes, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Six Degrees Group, and will include: Ralph B, CTO Economy & Society, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC); Steven Furnell, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Nottingham; Ian Kirby, Detective Superintendent, National Cyber Resilience Centre Group; Simon Newman, CEO, LondonCRC; and David Wall, Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds.
Please register here if you plan to attend in person; please register if you wish to participate remotely
13.00-14.30 “Cybersecurity in Remote Work and Working from Home: Building Secure Environments”. Workshop.
Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom
The concept of flexible workplaces has been growing for many years as the technology to support remote work became more ubiquitous. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many out of the office to experience working remotely, bringing many challenges in keeping networks secure, as the new workplaces brought new threats. For many organizations, these shifts became part of the new normal, impacting on how to manage risks and support productivity. This workshop is an opportunity to hear from researchers, managers, and industry leaders on the security challenges of remote work and working from home.
This workshop will be moderated by Bill Dutton, Director of the Portulans Institute and Technical Board Member of the GCSCC at the University of Oxford, and will include Patricia Esteve-González, Research Fellow at the GCSCC, University of Oxford; Ruth Shillair, Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University; and Monica Whitty, Professor of Human Factors in Cyber Security at the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Monash University.
Please register here if you plan to attend in person; please register if you wish to participate remotely.
15.00-17.30 “AI cybersecurity readiness”. Workshop.
Seminar Room 1
Nations are increasingly concerned with what the growing use of and dependence upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) might mean for the cyber-resilience of their critical infrastructures, businesses and society more widely. Managing the impact of AI on national and international cyber-resilience is likely to require specific capabilities in, and across, all dimensions of cybersecurity capacity. It is clear that nations will need to develop insight into their current and future use, and specifically the risks that they face. Such insights may help identify capability gaps and requirements for cybersecurity capacity building. The GCSCC believes that there is merit in research into and the creation of an AI Cybersecurity Readiness Metric. This would be a metric for use by nations seeking to rapidly assess their current state of capability to withstand AI cybersecurity risks, and to identify priorities for cybersecurity capacity enhancement. More information on the project can be found here: https://gcscc.ox.ac.uk/article/oxford-centre-create-ai-cybersecurity-rea... In this workshop, we will discuss key challenges and needs, to support the development of the metric.
Please register here if you plan to attend in person.
Wednesday, 1 May
09.30-11.30 “Cyber Capacity Building Impact Evaluation: Bringing Solutions to Life. Road to GC3B Geneva 2025”. Workshop.
Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom
This workshop is organised in collaboration with Integrity and Royal Holloway University London.
The workshop will discuss potential solutions to CCB impact evaluation that arose from stakeholder discussions at the GC3B in Accra/Ghana 2023. Participants are invited to reflect on the project’s aims and intended deliverables that shall contribute to tackling the challenges of impact evaluation and how to systematically integrate it in CCB programmes.
For more information please visit the event page
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11.30-13.00 “Cybersecurity Capacities for the Application of UN Cyber Norms: Future Research”. Workshop.
Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom
The purpose of the workshop is to develop further insight into how and when the UN Cyber Norms on states’ responsible behaviour online might be applied in different situations and contexts, and how capacity maturity can affect the decisions that are made. Participants will be invited to help identify real-world examples of norms application that can be used for further study to examine the issues and dynamics involved. This workshop will be moderated by Jamie Saunders, Technical Board Member of the GCSCC at the University of Oxford.
Please register here if you plan to attend in person; please register if you wish to participate remotely
