Embedded Systems and IOT Cybersecurity

Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks.

As intelligence becomes embedded into connected devices and critical infrastructure, cyber resilience is no longer confined to enterprise IT. Security failures now have the potential to disrupt operations, compromise safety and impact physical assets.

This session explores how organisations are strengthening security across connected infrastructure by combining secure device design, resilient architectures and continuous risk management throughout the lifecycle of connected systems.

The attack surface continues to expand as organisations deploy more connected devices across operational environments.

This session examines how manufacturers and infrastructure operators are responding to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats through stronger device security, secure communications, runtime protection and resilient system architectures.

Trust is becoming one of the defining requirements for connected products. Organisations must deliver security, resilience and reliability without increasing engineering complexity or slowing innovation.

Industry leaders discuss secure-by-design principles, emerging regulation, lifecycle security and the practical challenges of protecting connected devices throughout their operational life.

Discussion topics

• Secure-by-design
• Device lifecycle security
• Product regulation
• Hardware trust
• Software supply chain
• Long-term resilience

Software Bills of Materials are rapidly becoming essential for secure product development, regulatory compliance and supply chain transparency.

Learn how organisations are improving vulnerability management while creating more secure connected products throughout the development lifecycle.

Many connected products deployed today will remain operational long after practical quantum computing becomes a reality.

This session explores crypto agility, post-quantum migration strategies and long-term planning for organisations designing connected products with lifecycles measured in decades rather than years.

Embedded platforms are evolving rapidly to support increasing processing capability, lower power consumption and more demanding software requirements.

This session explores emerging embedded architectures, hardware design considerations and engineering priorities shaping the next generation of connected products.

Every connected device must establish trust before it can safely communicate across wider IoT ecosystems.

This session examines how hardware roots of trust, secure provisioning, device identity and runtime protection are enabling organisations to securely manage millions of connected devices throughout their operational lifecycle.

Embedded systems are becoming more connected, more capable and increasingly software-defined. At the same time, engineers face growing pressure around security, regulation, component availability and long-term support.

This closing discussion explores the future of embedded engineering, examining open architectures, secure development practices and the technologies that will shape connected products over the next decade.

Discussion topics

• Open hardware
• RISC-V
• Product security
• Software-defined devices
• Long-term support
• Future embedded architectures