Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust for Smart Living

Abhik Chaudhuri is a Chevening TCS Fellow in Cyber Policy, Cyber Security and Privacy and has over 12 years of experience in IT consulting and specialises in IoT and Smart City Cyber Security, Privacy, Cloud Security, IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance. His consulting papers on IT Governance, Cloud Governance, Security Audit of virtual IT systems and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance in ERP Systems have been published in reputed journals like EDPACS, ISACA Journal, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer Verlag) and Handbook of Research on Security Considerations in Cloud Computing (IGI Global, USA). Abhik has performed collaborative research as working group member for preparing Cloud Security Alliance's (CSA, USA) Cloud Controls Matrix v1.2 Framework, as contributing author of Cloud Security Guidance V3 (CSA, USA) and as peer reviewer for CSA's SecaaS Implementation Guidance, Category 2: Data Loss Prevention. Abhik is an editorial board member of EDPACS Journal (Taylor & Francis, USA).

Nigel Jones is a Visiting Fellow in the Defense Studies Department of King's College London. He specializes in the people and informational dimensions of policy, strategy and plans, particularly in the security and conflict contexts. Until March 2015, he was Senior Lecturer in Cyber Defense and Information Operations at Cranfield University at the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Cranfield, he directed the UK's Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network, bringing academic, public and private stakeholders together to work on innovation in contemporary cyber security challenges. This he did whilst at QinetiQ PLC where he ran a research and consultancy team. His interest in communications in security and conflict stems from his previous 16 years in the Army, that saw operational deployments in which he ran communications campaigns or provided training in audience analysis and communications planning.

Henning Søgaard is a Research Manager at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment close to Oslo, Norway. He is currently running a research project on cyber and strategic communications, and how countries can counter hybrid threats, including cyber attacks, propaganda and subversive leverage, in a new and more complex security environment. Previously, Søgaard worked served as a political affairs advisor at United Nations Headquarters in New York, and as a strategic communications advisor with NATO and the Norwegian Armed Forces. His resume also includes several years as a journalist, columnist and political editor, and service as press officer in conflict zones, including the Middle East and the Balkans.