演講者：Dr. Tao Zhang, Cisco
時間：1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, March 17 (Thursday)
地點：工三館 345 會議室
主題：Securing the Internet of Things: Need for a New Paradigm and Fog Computing


演講摘要(Abstract)：
More things are being connected to address a growing range of business needs. In fact, by 2020, more than 50 billion things will connect to the Internet—seven times our human population. Examples are connected vehicles, wearable health and performance monitors, smart grids, connected oil rigs, and connected manufacturing. This Internet of Things
(IoT) will revolutionize the way we work, live, play, and learn.
However, inadequate security will be a critical barrier to large-scale deployment of IoT systems and broad customer adoption of IoT applications.

The IoT world brings a wide range of unique security challenges. For example, many industries need to support devices that vary widely in their abilities to support security functions; many of these devices will have long lifespans but highly constrained resources that are impractical to upgrade. Systems in many industries will be highly distributed and have to operate in physically unprotected environments.
Equipment uptime and safe operations will take the highest priority in the many cyber-physical systems that use computer systems to control mission-critical physical equipment and processes, such as manufacturing systems, industrial control systems, cars, trains, connected transportation systems, and smart grids. These IoT characteristics make the conventional security paradigm, which relies predominately on perimeter-based protection and highly disruptive ways to respond to security compromises, impractical and inadequate.

Simply extending existing IT security architectures to IoT will not be sufficient. Fundamentally new and disruptive thinking will be necessary.
In this talk, I will highlight some of these unique security challenges, discuss why a new security paradigm will be required to address the challenges, and outline some key pillars of such a new security paradigm and the role of fog computing in it.


演講者簡歷(Biography)：
Dr. Tao Zhang, an IEEE Fellow and Cisco Distinguished Engineer, joined Cisco in 2012 as the Chief Scientist for Smart Connected Vehicles, and has since also been leading initiatives to develop strategies, architectures, technology, and eco-systems for the Internet of Things
(IoT) and Fog Computing. Prior to Cisco, he was Chief Scientist and Director of Mobile and Vehicular Networking at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research or Bellcore). For over 25 years, Tao has been in various technical and executive positions, directing research and product development in vehicular, mobile, and broadband networks and applications. His leadership and technical work have led to pioneering contributions that advanced the state of the art in fiber optic networks, all-IP cellular networks (3G/4G), mobile ad-hoc networks, and vehicular networks; and have resulted in disruptive technology, standards, and products.

Tao was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2010 and a Fellow of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration in 2015. He holds 50+ US patents and has co-authored two books “Vehicle Safety Communications: Protocols, Security, and Privacy” (2012) and “IP-Based Next Generation Wireless Networks” (2004) published by John Wiley & Sons.

Tao is a co-founder and a Board Director for the Open Fog Consortium. He is serving on the Board of Governors and as the CIO of the IEEE Communications Society. He was a founding Board Director of the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA). He has served on the industry advisory boards for several research organizations. He was a co-founder of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Sub-Committee on Vehicular Networks and Telematics Applications and served as its Chair from 2013 – 2015. He is a founding steering committee member of the IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing and the IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing. He was a co-founder and founding general chair and steering committee vice chair of the International Conference on Collaborative Communications (CollaborateCom). Tao has been serving on editorial boards or as a guest editor for numerous leading technical journals. He has been an adjunct professor at multiple universities.