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Internet of ThingsPublic input to public policy

Professor Jeremy Watson CBE

IET President Vice-dean Engineering Sciences, UCL

Chief Scientist & Engineer, BRE

13 June 2017

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IET Cyber Security and IoT activities

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Setting the Scene

• Cyber attacks cost businesses as much as $400 billion a year [Lloyds London]

• 99.9% of exploited vulnerabilities were compromised more than a year after the vulnerability was published [Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report]

• By 2020 there will be 22 billion connected things [Cisco]

• Cyber Security Core to Interdisciplinary Engineering

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A Research Hub for Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things

Professor Jeremy Watson CBE FREngDirector and Principal Investigator

The Internet of Things (IoT)• Very broad definition, links to Big Data and Data Analytics

• Smart technologies make previously unintelligent things (like home thermostats, white goods, or building management systems) able to compute and communicate – typically wirelessly

• Almost all the data that IoT devices send is to other machines – there are no humans involved: ‘M2M’ communications

• By 2020, industry experts predict the number of IoT devices to exceed 25 billion (Gartner)

• The possibility of hacking into IoT networks (by humans or machine agents) brings new cyber-threats; i.e. New crime and security issues

Reference - The Internet of Things: making the most of the second digital revolutionThe Government Office for Science 2014

Applications of IoT - Buildings

Cybersecurity of IoT is Vital

• Information theft– Personal data, eavesdropping

– Building occupancy and utilisation (space and time patterns)

• Perturbation of operation– Hacking into control networks to perturb asset operation (e.g. denial of a

physical service, like aircon for server rooms)

• Corruption and falsification of sensor data– Energy theft by hacking smart meters

– Spoofing BMS

• Falsification of information– Supply chain issues

– Product provenance issues (e.g. pharmaceuticals, aerospace spares)

Blackett Review: IoT themes

Need for focused research & demonstration -> IoTUK

IoTUK landscapeSteering board

Warwick

UCL

HealthcareNode

CitiesNodePETRAS Hub

Cardiffspoke

Sotonspoke

~ 50 Public & private sector research partners

Acceler-ator

Oxford

Lancas-ter

Edin’brospoke

Surreyspoke

Sharedadmin

Imperial

Operations group

User & Research board

£10mDemonstrator

‘CityVerve’Manchester

2 of 7 NHS-E projects: Surrey &

Bristol

SBRI Calltba

£9.8m HubDCMS/EPSRC

PETRAS – key facts

Projects grouped by type into ‘Constellations’, sample one or more of the Stream threads

• 9 world leading universities via the

core and spoke model (4 from the

Alan Turing Institute)

• Combined hub value: £24m

• 19 projects at outset, +15 after

Phase 2 call

• Blackett Review expertise

• 47 partners at submission, 40+

since, combining presence in the

UK, Central Europe and America

(giving International links and

perspective)

• Inter– and multi-disciplinary focus

Some examples of threats

• Contactless card skimming

• Hacking Building Management Systems

• Smart toys

• Baby monitors

• Smart TVs

• USB devices

• Healthcare devices - Fitbit to infusion pumps

• Smart domestic goods

• Cars, now and in the future

The PETRAS work plan

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Deliverables and Impact – so far

• Summary of ResearchFish submission for Year 1Publications = 31

Collaborations and Partnerships = 64

Further funding = 5

Engagement activities = 131

Influence on Policy, Practice, Patents and the Public = 18

Research Tools and Methods = 1

Research Databases and Models = 1

Artistic and Creative Products = 3

Software and Technical Products = 2

• Communications and Impact management team established

• Customer Relations Management data base being set up to manage User Partner relationships

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Examples of User Partner engagement

• CISCO – weekly meetings held with Security Research Team. Support in review of deliverables and new proposals. Co-funding of research. Additional funding - three new projects awarded.

• BSI – IoT Multidisciplinary Platform, joint survey, multiple papers being published, invitations to participate in IoSI Committee, including chairing and membership

• DCMS – Secure by Default team – Secondment from UCL into DCMS team. Participation in Expert Advisory Group and collaboration in papers and reports

• Pinsent Masons – Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Legal Challenges – white paper update with input from PETRAS;

• Wallet.Services and Machina Espresso –supply-chain collaboration around the Bit.Barista concept

• IET – International call for papers conference on IoT, and new journal in late planning stages

• BRE – hosted November 2016 URBW, and collaborating in the preparation of new projects

Links

• BIM Level 2 – PAS 1192: http://shop.bsigroup.com/Navigate-by/PAS/PAS-1192-22013/

• Digital Built Britain: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/410096/bis-15-155-digital-built-britain-level-3-strategy.pdf

• Home Office produced an interactive PDF advice document in light of findings of a recent Ministerial Roundtable: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/internet-of-things-potential-risk-of-crime-and-how-to-prevent-it

• Blackett Review: The Internet of Things: making the most of the Second Digital Revolution: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/409774/14-1230-internet-of-things-review.pdf

• Petras Hub: https://www.petrashub.org/

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