Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems

Leandros Maglaras is a Professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computer Science and Informatics of De Montfort University conducting research in the Cyber Security Centre & Software Technology Research Laboratory. Prof. Maglaras was the Director of the Cyber Security Directorate and Head of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece, leading a group of highly skilled professionals in order to organize public sector in Greece in terms of cyber security of systems and applications. He has participated in various research programs investigating vehicular and ICT technologies (C4C-project.eu, reduction-project.eu), sustainable development (islepact.eu, smilegov), cyber security (HCYMAF [NCSC UK], CONCORDIA [H2020], COCKPITCI [FP7], FASTPASS [FP7]) and optimization and prediction of the dielectric behavior of air gaps. Prof. Maglaras’s research interests are cyber security, privacy preservation, risk management, routing protocols, vehicular networks, and social network analysis.

Helge Janicke is the Research Director of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Australia. He is affiliated with Edith Cowan University and holds a visiting Professorship in Cyber Security at De Montfort University, UK. Prof. Janicke established DMU’s Cyber Technology Institute and its Airbus Centre of Excellence in SCADA Cyber Security and Forensics Research. He has been the Head of School of Computer Science at De Montfort University UK, before taking up his current position as Research Director for the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre. Prof. Janicke’s research interests are in the area of cyber security, in particular with applications in critical infrastructures using cyber-physical systems, SCADA and Industrial Control Systems.