SikkertNOK Conference 2018

SikkertNOK 2018 is the eight chapter of the annual national conference on information security. It serves the dual purpose of raising public awareness on information security and bringing key people in the information security sector and the research sector together. NorSIS is the national organizer of the “National Security Month” and organizes a series of activities and events to raise awareness on information and cyber security threats and to disseminate information on new technology developments and good practices for security. In this context, SikkertNOK is the major closing event for the security month and it constitutes an open forum for debating the information security threats that pervasively concerns the whole society. For eight years in a row now, the SikkertNOK annual conference has been hosted by NTNU in Gjøvik, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK) jointly organised with NorSIS, the Norwegian Senter for Information Security. SikkertNok 2018 program includes two keynote speakers: Cristina Alcaraz from University of Malaga, and Niall Merrigan, Head of Cyber-Security, CapCapgemini. The keynote speaker, Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Malaga (UMA) will kick-off the conference with a keynote speech on “Security Trends in the New Industrial Control Eco-Systems”, followed by Niall Merrigan, Head of Custom Software Development at Capgemini with the presentation of “social engineering" in context of cyber-security, manufacturing industry and "future sustainable factory. The second part of the programme will be filled with the presentations from local businesses and academia, including presenters from ABB, Moelven Industrier etc. It is expected an audience of around 100 participants from the government and the private business sector, and a young audience of students and researchers from the academia. The conference is open, and participation is free.