Cyber security: When IoT is in everything. Dr Ahamad Atamli, The University of Oxford

The sixth in the series of talks on cyber security, presented by Supergen in collaboration with IEA HEV TCP Task 43 and CESI.

Introduction: Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute
Keynote speaker: Dr Ahmad Atamli, Lecturer at the University of Oxford

Topics for discussion:
Why are IoT devices different in the context of security?
IoT: Attacks and threats
The security and privacy implications.
Protecting users’ data
Security challenges when designing IoT devices
Security by design: Resiliency, availability, recoverability, Secure Remote Management

Speaker Bio
Ahmad Atamli is a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and the University of Southampton.

His research is concerned with mechanisms to assure platform integrity and confidentiality using trusted hardware.

His early career was at Mellanox Technologies, where as a Lead Engineer he developed high-performance hardware to accelerate and secure data centres.

His work produced innovations in communication protocols that led to several commercial hardware products. At Mellanox, he became a key member of the PCI SIG working group, which defines the PCI Express communication protocol used in most computing platforms.

Dr Atamli obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford. As part of his doctoral research, he published new approaches to mitigating software vulnerabilities using Intel SGX hardware enclaves. In 2017, he was appointed as a Postdoctoral research Fellow in the Maru project at the Alan Turing Institute.

In this post, he contributed to providing a confidential-computing software enablement layer to the open-source community, allowing easy deployment for new applications using Intel SGX.