Cybersecurity Awareness Month Event

Wednesday 22 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 16:00 Europe/London

Pickavance Lecture Theatre

If you cannot join us at the Pickavance, please dial in via Zoom: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94577142801

09:00 → 10:00 Coffee and discussion

10:00 → 10:20 Keynote and welcome - Anton Lawrence, Director, Digital Infrastructure, STFC

10:20 → 11:00 Cyber threat landscape for research - Dr. Stefan Lüders, CERN

11:00 → 11:15 Morning break

11:15 → 11:35 Interactive section: Cyber security quiz (with Mentimeter)

11:35 → 12:05 Incident response (BESSY-II) - Dr. Roland Müller & Vidhya Sasidharan Nair, HZB

12:05 → 12:35 Fireside chat with PaN community security leaders - HZB, ESRF, SESAME, CERN

Dr Roland Müller, Senior Scientist, BESSY, HZB
Jean-François Perrin, ESRF
Salman Matalgah, Head of Scientific Computing & Systems Communication, SESAME
Dr Stefan Lüders, Computer Security Officer & Head of Computer Security, CERN

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 AI/ML, cyber security risk and opportunities - Jon Hunt, UKRI

14:30 → 15:00 DevSecOps: Securing CI/CD pipelines - Wajid Zahoor, Diamond Light Source

15:00 → 15:20 Cyber security tooling at STFC

15:20 → 15:30 Day recap and wrap-up

15:30 → 16:00 Networking + coffee