NGI webinar 18.10.2018 – From IT Security to Digital Trust: Trends and imperatives in a digital world
The webinar was organised by the HUB4NGI project on 18 October 2018. The webinar discussed how different organisations are progressing with digital transformation, within a landscape seeing myriad security threats, and in light also of new regulatory requirements for GDPR compliance. The webinar addressed the need for automated support to improve capability for threat mediation, by increasing visibility and access to specialist resources at scale, important in an era seeing continued technology skills shortage. Loss of trust mirrored in a fall in Facebook’s share price was used to illustrate the importance of privacy and transparency even in a world where open information sharing is assumed to be the norm. The webinar concluded with a description of the architecture for a “digital trust” platform, as an ecosystem that connects people with data and insights, empowering information security officers and other senior security professionals, while enabling and accelerating digital transformation.
Questions from the audience included suggestions for ways to motivate all to contribute to the shared data pools needed to effective automated support for cybersecurity challenges.
Duncan Brown works for the International Data Corporation (IDC) in London.
Part 2 – NGI Funding Opportunities – Upcoming Calls
The second part of the webinar concentrated on NGI Funding Opportunities and upcoming NGI Calls.
Jorge Gasos, NGI Unit, DG CONNECT/E.3, at the European Commission presented on-going and near future NGI ICT Calls:
- ICT-24 NEXT GENERATION INTERNET – AN OPEN INTERNET INITIATIVE
- ICT-31 EU-US COLLABORATION ON NGI
- Cascaded funding
Timo Lahnalampi, Martel Innovate/HUB4NGI project, concluded the webinar by presenting different ways to join NGI and highlighted next big events where to meet NGI team.
The presentations of the webinar are available on the NGI.eu website at:
https://ngi.eu/resources/presentations/.