MEC - Cybersecurity at the Edge

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The edge is becoming a hybrid multi-cloud environment, federating communication and computing assets from operators, service providers and hyperscalers. This fundamental nature of the edge deployments has certainly a huge impact on security, as a user workload may execute in an environment involving multiple stakeholders.

Additionally, security decisions are in principle very complex and depend on several factors, which need to be analyzed from an E2E perspective, also including terminals and IT infra at the edge. In particular, automotive sector is a key domain where MEC deployments are key to deliver services to customers, and where also there is an increased need for security (due also to the progressive introduction of automated and connected cars, where softwarization and introduction of AI is a ubiquitous phenomenon in all parts of the infrastructure). In that perspective, also AI systems and their related governance, will be a challenge also toward 6G systems, future technology infrastructure will be AI-native and edge-native by design.

This panel will provide a must-have overview on edge computing cybersecurity, with a special focus on automotive use cases. The speakers, as relevant international experts in the area, will provide a comprehensive view of the state-of-the-art, encompassing standards (e.g. 3GPP, ETSI, IETF), compliance, regulations (ENISA, ETSI, CEN, CENELEC), certification schemes (e.g. EUCC, EUCS, CRA, EU5G), and best practices from industry (e.g. GSMA, 5GAA), including trust management frameworks from research projects (e.g. CONNECT, VERGE, Hexa-X), also with a perspective on recent normative challenges related to adoption of AI. The final goal will be to provide a diverse set of points of view from industry and research, not only to demystify edge cybersecurity, but also to identify promising directions toward future 6G systems.

Nurit Sprecher (Nokia, Head of Management, Virtualization and Application Enablement Standardization)
Dario Sabella (ETSI MEC Chair , xFlow Research Inc. , VP Technology and Standards)

Dario Sabella (ETSI MEC Chair , xFlow Research Inc. , VP Technology and Standards)
Riccardo Masucci (Director of Security and Technology Policy, Intel)
Claire Vishik (CTO, Stealth Startup, independent security expert)
Akis Kourtis (Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”)
Ioannis Krontiris (Senior Research Engineer, Huawei)
Marco Centenaro (Technical Expert, National Cybersecurity Agency of Italy)
Slawomir Gorniak (Senior Cybersecurity Expert at ENISA)
Eric Gauthier (GSMA FASG chair, Orange)

(all times EET = UTC +2)


Time	Title	Speaker
15.30	Welcome and Introduction	Nurit Sprecher
15.45 – 16.00	Talk#1 – MEC Standardization status and overview	Dario Sabella
16.00 – 16.15	Talk#2 - Security challenges and industrial perspective	Claire Vishik
16.15 – 16.30	Talk#3 – Security challenges and Research perspective	Akis Kourtis
16.30 – 16.45	Talk#4 – Focus on Automotive Cybersecurity	Ioannis Krontiris
16.45 – 17.00	Talk#5 – Security compliance and European Regulation	Riccardo Masucci
17.00 – 17.15	Talk#6 – National security strategies: an Italian view from ACN	Marco Centenaro
17.15 – 17.30	Talk#7 – The view from ENISA: updates and future activities	Slawomir Gorniak
17.30 – 17.45	Talk#8 – GSMA and operator view: status of FASG activities	Eric Gauthier
17.45 – 18.30	Panel Discussion: How the future of edge cybersecurity will look like? Opportunities and challenges, for more secure infrastructures and applications toward 6G (with all speakers)	Moderator (Dario Sabella)
18.30	Conclusions	Nurit Sprecher