Cityforum round table: "Strengthening global cyber security"

28 September 2011 – Salters Hall, London, UK

This Cityforum round table brought together officials, politicians, industrialists, technologists and other experts to look at where we are and where we need to be in developing the expertise, cooperation, coordination and partnerships that have to be mastered if safe operations in cyberspace are to be achieved. The event will consider the key issues of strengthening global cyber security, including what needs to be done and how, providing the security to meet a fundamental threat, and the associated structures. It will also consider the recently issued US cyber space strategy.

The agenda focused on the challenges posed to defence, security and law enforcement, and broadened out into the particular vulnerabilities posed to industrial prosperity by cyber disruption of global supply chains and potential attacks on the global financial sector.

Finmeccanica UK CEO, Alberto de Benedictis, chaired a round table discussion focused on the financial sector, asking “whether a financial system under stress can deal with an additional threat?”.

Michael Clayforth-Carr, CEO of SELEX Systems Integration also spoke at the event, discussing the subject of “helping corporates achieve robust information defence”.

Further details on this event can be found on the Cityforum website.