Session 3.8d Update: Data-centric Security and Zero Trust Architecture - Enablers for Cooperation between NATO and NATO Partners
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| Thursday, November 16, 2023 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Nicholls Theatre |
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Recently, several important developments have occurred within NATO and its member Nations in the context of implementing the data-centric security (DCS) approach. The revised DCS Implementation Plan for NATO Enterprise and Alliance Federation has been finalized. Moreover, a new DCS Capability Team (CaT) has been established to formalize the collaboration between NATO nations and industry and coordinate the development of DCS doctrine and capabilities for the Alliance Federation. Finally, rapidly developing emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) had an impact on the scope and timeline of some of the DCS transformation actions. In particular, progress in quantum computing highlighted the need to swiftly incorporate post-quantum cryptographic algorithms for trusted metadata binding and cryptographic access control into DCS development. At the same time, the progress in natural language processing introduces new opportunities for automated labeling and inspection of the content. The above developments are accompanied by the increasing focus on ensuring compliance of NATO systems with zero trust architecture (ZTA) paradigms. Although DCS implementation does not require ZTA, the coordinated implementation of DCS and ZTA in NATO offers several synergies and complementarity, further strengthening data protection and the ability of the Alliance to share the data and collaborate with its partners securely.
The presentation will summarize the above developments and discuss opportunities for collaboration between NATO and Australia in order to develop a robust and resilient security architecture for future data-centric military communications and information systems.
Speaker/s
Dr.-Ing. Konrad Wrona
Principal Scientist
NATO Cyber Security Centre
Konrad Wrona is a Principal Scientist at the NATO Cyber Security Centre in The Hague, The Netherlands, where he is leading the Architecture, Policy and Innovation team. He has also a research position at Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. Konrad has over 20 years of work experience in an industrial (Ericsson Research and SAP Research) and in an academic (RWTH Aachen University, Media Lab Europe, and Rutgers University) research and development environment. He has received his M.Eng. in Telecommunications from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2005. He is an author and a co-author of over seventy publications, as well as a co-inventor of several patents. The areas of his professional interests include broad range of security issues - in information systems, communication networks, wireless and mobile applications, distributed systems, and Internet of Things. Konrad Wrona is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Member of the ACM and a member of IACR.
