A National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop
This multi-disciplinary event was also hosted by the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), the School of Public Policy and the Maryland Center of Excellence for Sustainment Sciences (MChESS), and START Headquarters this month.
The supply chain of Networks, Processes, Parts, Materials, Software, and Information was covered in this workshop. It received a notable turnout from eminent leaders in the industry, government, and academia.
The workshop was organised in 5 sessions addressing the following topics:
- Blockchain for supply chain (Panel Chair: Prof. Ujjwal Guin, Auburn University)
- Near-term proposed approaches (pros, cons, practicality)
- How can it be used
- Aging of distributed ledgers (long-term practicality and value)
- Trust- establishing and eroding trust (Panel Chair: Dr. Jeremy Muldavin, Global Foundries)
- Zero-trust approach application to information and supply chains
- Quantifying trust
- What can be scaled from cybersecurity to the security of “everything else”?
- Human aspects of compromise (Panel Chair: Dr. Steve S. Sin, START, University of Maryland)
- Workforces and workforce environments
- Cognitive security
- Public and organizational policies (Panel Chair: Dr. Charles Harry, University of Maryland)
- Assessing risk
- Effectiveness in managing compromise risk
- Testing policies
- Modelling – Optimizing Critical Systems Management (Panel Chair: Dr. Timothy Sprock, ARLIS, University of Maryland)
- Disruption planning
- System Dynamics
- Agent-Based Modeling (ABM)
The panelists came from UMD, Lockheed Martin, The MITRE Corporation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and more.
The workshop was also addressed by Christopher Nissen and Bill Stephens of ARLIS who discussed the global threats posed by nation states and by human elements. The workshop was the last of four workshops developed by the project team with the support of an NSF planning grant focused on disrupting the operations of illicit counterfeit part supply networks.
For more information about the workshop, please contact Dr. Diganta Das and Prof. Peter Sandborn.
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