[Air-L] HOST 2020 - Mid-Summer Webinar Panel, July 28, 12:00-1:30 pm EST

[Deborah Lupton]

Wow - three male organisers and four male presenters - well done, what a
manel!

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 6:20 am, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini at unm.edu>
wrote:

> IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust
> (HOST) 2020
>
> Mid-Summer Webinar Panel, July 28, 12:00-1:30 pm EST, 2020
>
> Title: How Can Hardware Security Contribute to the Fight Against COVID-19
> and to Post Pandemic Life?
>
> Panel Organizers: Jim Plusquellic, Saverio Fazzari and Domenic Forte
>
> The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented and widespread impacts on the
> economy, travel, politics, education, research, and human social lives in
> 2020. It is widely agreed that technology will play a critical role (both
> short-term and long-term) in mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 and
> establishing a "new normal". Personal protective equipment (PPE) is
> minimizing exposure to virus. Social distancing is being maintained through
> remote work, education, and health services, online retail, and on-demand
> food delivery. Scalable methods for fever screening and contact tracing are
> being developed to quickly identify the infected, warn patient contacts of
> exposure, and break chains of virus transmission. In the post-pandemic
> world, some of these 'best' practices may continue while new ones (e.g.,
> contact-less everything, robot/drone delivery, etc.) emerge. Confidence in
> the hardware is more important because of the impact of the threat.
>
> The new normal and upcoming practices/technologies have opened up the door
> to unfamiliar security and privacy issues. During this webinar, the
> moderator and panelists will discuss some of the risks, opportunities, and
> possible roadmaps for researchers in the field of hardware security to
> address them.
>
> Moderator:
> Saverio Fazzari, Booz Allen Hamilton
>
> Panelists:
>
>   *   Sae Woo Nam, National Institute of Standards and Technology
>   *   Will Zortman, Sandia National Laboratories
>   *   James Joshi, National Science Foundation
>   *   Jim Plusquellic, University of New Mexico
>   *   Rob Aitken, ARM
>
>
> Topics:
> The panel will primarily focus on the following topic areas and questions:
>
> *        Data Privacy: How secure are the devices being used for contact
> tracking, health monitoring, online shopping, etc.? How to avoid being
> tracked outside the workplace? How to protect against unauthorized access
> to my tracking and health information? How should such data be stored and
> for how long?
>
>   *   Data Transmission: During teleconferences, how should audio and
> video be protected efficiently in hardware? How can unwanted intrusions
> (i.e., Zoom bombing) be prevented? How to enforce digital rights management?
>   *   User Authentication: How should organizations provide access control
> for employees working from home, especially on security/IP sensitive tasks?
> How to verify who we are really talking to? What features need to be
> present in the hardware to support authentication, e.g., fingerprints,
> facial recognition, voice recognition, other biometrics?
>   *   Supply Chain/Counterfeit: Are front-line workers, state governments,
> etc. getting genuine, PPE, medicine, vaccines? How can hardware security
> prevent price-gouging, and enable independence of international suppliers?
>   *   Hardware Trust: Can the hardware built on top of low-cost embedded
> systems used for pandemic and post-pandemic technologies/practices (e.g.,
> contact tracing, telework, telehealth, etc.) be trusted? How can hardware
> security make such hardware more trustworthy, and how can that trust be
> quantified?
>
> All attendees must register using the following link:
>
> https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2508996/23DF48DE5BCC5A86AECBE618C8F53040?partnerref=panel
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
> Assistant Professor
>
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131
> Office: 326B
> Tel.: (505)-277-5501
> Email: eirini at unm.edu<mailto:eirini at unm.edu>
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