The Certification Panacea
Rigo Wenning, ERCIM, France
Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies
Edgar Weippl, University of Vienna, SBA Research, Austria
The Certification Panacea
Rigo Wenning
ERCIM
France
https://www.wenning.org/
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Brief Bio
Rechtsanwalt Rigo Wenning is the legal counsel of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (GEIE ERCIM), a joint venture of INRIA and ICS-FORTH located in Sophia-Antipolis, France. GEIE ERCIM is the European host of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where Rigo also acts as legal counsel. He is attorney at law registered with the Frankfurt bar association. He studied law in Saarbrücken and Nancy and was Assistant at the center for computing and law. Beyond the legal field, Rigo does research & standards in the area of privacy, security and AI, also on a technical level. He has been involved in a number of large research projects in these areas. Rigo Wenning is member of the European Multistakeholder Platform for standardisation of the European Commission, member of the Board of Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag and also member of the Scientific Council of the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library (TIB). He is co-chair of the Task Force on Interoperability of the Big Data Value PPP. He is also leading the creation of the information architecture for the European Digital Product Passport within the CIRPASS project.
Abstract
We are living in troubled times where attacks on critical infrastructure are not only likely, but can be expected. With the ever advancing digitisation of our infrastructure, our society and our lives this dependability puts cybersecurity on top of the political agenda and not only there. In Brussels, regulation after regulation complicates the lives of security experts. Most of the political processes end up with the introduction of yet another cybersecurity certification scheme. The talk will explore advantages and disadvantages of the certification trend and introduce new challenges for the security community, especially in respect to new trends like industry 4.0. and AI.
Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies
Edgar Weippl
University of Vienna, SBA Research
Austria
Brief Bio
After graduating with a Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology, Edgar Weippl worked in a re-search startup for two years. He then spent one year teaching as an assistant professor at Beloit College, WI. From 2002 to 2004, while with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, he worked as a consultant in New York, Albany, U.S.A., and in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2004 he joined the Vienna University of Technology and founded the research center SBA Re-search together with A Min Tjoa and Markus Klemen.
Abstract
New services have emerged with the increase in interconnectivity and ubiquitous data access. Distributed Ledger Technologies and their underlying principles can be used to reach an agreement or consensus upon a distributed state in a highly distributed environment. They have many different aspects and can therefore be viewed from various angles, including the financial, economic, legal, political, and sociological perspectives, as well as considering technical and socio-technical points of view.
In the presentation, I will show three properties that are important in our research: (1) theoretical foundations, (2) understanding of real-world phenomena, and (3) impact. For instance, proof-of-work (PoW), as used in Bitcoin, is relevant to achieving consensus and serves as a source of randomness used in leader selection. Moreover, understanding economic incentives and malicious behavior (aka incentive attacks) to undermine consensus in public blockchains is essential to creating a stable blockchain environment upon which new services can be built.