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Workshop on Core IOT Cybersecurity Baseline

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This Workshop will gather feedback on NIST’s approach to the IoT Cybersecurity Baseline and related taxonomy as well as discuss current status and future directions of this work.

Format: A morning of speakers to highlight the many considerations impacting cybersecurity of IoT including an introduction to NIST’s Cybersecurity for IoT Program, and panel discussions on challenges to cybersecurity for IoT, the relationship of cybersecurity with other considerations such as usability, privacy, and safety, consumer-informing labels for IoT cybersecurity, among other topics. In the afternoon, audience members will break out into small facilitated discussion sessions to provide feedback to NIST on their Core Cybersecurity Capabilities Baseline for IoT Devices Draft.

Audience: Manufacturers of IoT Devices, Consumer advocates, IoT Cybersecurity researchers, Government agency cybersecurity managers or OCIO representatives, cybersecurity testing and compliance experts.

Agenda for the August 13, 2019
Workshop on Core IoT Cybersecurity Baseline

9:00 – 9:20 Welcoming Remarks

  • Katerina Megas (NIST)
  • Jim St. Pierre (NIST)

9:20 – 9:50 ITL Overview Presentation of ITL’s work in IoT cybersecurity.

  • Kevin Stine (NIST)
  • Mary Theofanos (NIST) 

9:50 – 10:15 Overview of Program and Workshop Details about the Cybersecurity for IoT Program and the history of  the NIST IR to be discussed at the Workshop

  • Katerina Megas (NIST)
  • Michael Fagan (NIST)

10:15 – 11:15 Next Steps on the Road

A mix of public and private sector representatives discuss how they see their future work from the “Botnet” report and building on the NIST IR “Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks” and what additional challenges that future work in IoT cybersecurity may entail.

 

  • Moderator: Ari Schwartz (Venable)
  • Patricia Adair (CPSC)
  • William Barker (NIST NCCoE/Dakota)
  • Michael Bergman (CTA)
  • Robert Cantu (CTIA)
  • Kevin Moriarty (FTC)

11:15 – 11:30 Instructions for Breakouts

  • Brief presentation of the goals and procedures for the afternoon portion of the Workshop. Michael Fagan (NIST)

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 2:30 Core Baseline Feedback Breakout

  • Four separate groups will be formed to have smaller sessions to gather directed feedback from participants on the draft NIST IR. All rooms will cover the same questions, and discussions will be guided by facilitators. 

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:30 Feedback Summary Panel

  • Breakout session facilitators will discuss their initial reports of feedback from the sessions to see the range of views and information discussed.
  • Moderator: Adam Sedgewick (NIST)

3:30 – 4:00 Closing remarks

If you are not registered, you will not be allowed on site.  Registered attendees will receive security and campus instructions prior to the workshop.

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Created May 13, 2019, Updated September 13, 2023