Chris Johnson's Recent Seminars, Awards etc


Parliamentary and Policy Work | Press Coverage | Keynotes and Invited Talks | Seminars and Conference Papers | Awards | (Former) News |


Parliamentary and Policy Work

I appeared before the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology looking at cybersecurity and the role of SMEs in government contracts.

I was a member of a Foreign Office delegation to Oman with Ian Levy, Technical Director of the National Cyber Secuirty Centre and Stephen Bailey, Associate Director, NCC Group, February 2020.

I contributed to a recent report for the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology on Cyber security in critical national infrastructures.

April 2019, I gave a cross-Whitehall seminar to the cyber teams from BEIS, Cabinet Office, DCMS, DIT, DfT, Home Office and Treasury organised by Paula Walsh's team in the Foreign and Commonwealth office.

I have briefed a number of Cabinet Ministers including Richard Harrington (BEIS, 2018), Jeremy Hunt (FCO, March 2019) and Shadow Cabinet Ministers including Jo Platt (Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Feb 2019), Nia Griffith, (Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, March 2019).

I have supported a number of initiatives across government including the development of the UK National Cyber Security Strategy, the UK Aviation Cyber Security Strategy; briefing cyber teams at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (April 2019), BEIS (December 2018, April 2019), Cabinet Office (April 2019), Dept for Transport (2017-), DCMS (April, 2019), Home Office (September 2018) etc.

I coordinated the UK Computing Research Community UKCRC submissions to the following consultations:


Press Coverage

April 2019, I was a panellist on the Naked Scientist, part of the Edinburgh Science Festival to be broadcast in May.

The UK Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, visits my lab in March 2019 to give a speech on Deterrence in the Cyber Age, reported by the BBC, Herald, Guardian, New York Times, Reuters, Scotsman, Sky News, The Sun, Telegraph 1 , Telegraph 2. Coverage from NCSC/EPSRC RITICS project.

Various press coverage of my work in: Nature, The Washington Times, The Guardian (summary), The Telegraph, The Scotsman ( article 1 and article 2). The Glasgow Herald, BBC News .

A UPI press release about the work on Olympic Security at the Beijing Games.

Coverage of a 2009 trip in the Italian equivalent of the Financial Times, Il Sole 24 Ore.


Keynotes and Invited Talks

18/2/2020 Brussels, Belgium. Military Cyber Security Teams, NATO HQ Review of Military Cyber Threats and Defences
4/2/2020 Muscat, Oman. Overview of Government, Industry and Academia work on Cyber Security, on Behalf of the UK Embassy Oman/NCSC RITICS and Recent UK Research on Industrial Cyber Security
22/11/2019 EUROCONTROL, Brussels, Belgium. NEASCOG@50, 50th Meeting of the NATO-Eurocontrol ATM Security Coordination Group Per Ardua Ad Astra
21/11/2019 Kista, Stockholm Switzerland Semanariedagar for Verksamhetsomarden, Swedish Government Transport Agency Annual Conference Protecting the Future Skies of Europe
19/11/2019 Hilton, Zurich Airport, Switzerland Swiss Federal Dept of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports: Conferrence on Aviation Cyber Security Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Management for Digital Aviation
7/11/2019 Schneider Electric, Victoria Street, London, UK SE Cyber Security Overview Panel on Building Cyber Security in the Industrial Internet of Things
30/10/2019 Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, UK Space Security and the Vulnerability of Strategic Systems to Cyberattacks: A NATO Perspective Technical and Policy Perspectives on Space Cyber
21-22/10/2019 The IET, Savoy Place, London, UK Systems Safety and Cyber Security Conference Overall Conference Chair with Mike St John Green
17/10/2019 Bishan MRT Depot Main Admin Building, Singapore Mass Rapid Transport (MRT), Singapore EN 50128, IEC 62279, EN 50129 and related standards for critical software in railway applications
4/10/2019 Civil Aviation Authority. 1st CAA Aviation Cyber Forum, Tlantic House, Crawley Supply Chain Cyber Security for UK Aviation (with Matt Shreeve)
18/9/2019 67th Interational Association of Auto Theft Investigators Annual Seminar Glasgow, UK A Systems Approach to the Cyber Security of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles
9-13/9/2019 UGS Singapore. Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore. Safety-Critical Systems
9-23/8/2019 United States Air Force, Safety Centre. Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Assurance Case Development for the Safety and Security of Critical Systems
30/5/2019 NATS/NCSC Workshop on STAMP/STPA Solent Hotel, Southampton. Introducing Socio-Technical Models in Cyber Risk Assessments for Safety-Critical Systems
30/5/2019 NATS/NCSC Workshop on STAMP/STPA (with Peter D, Anna G and Geoff E) Solent Hotel, Southampton. Alternate Models for Socio-technical Co-Design of Safe and Secure Systems
15/5/2019 EUROCONTROL Network CEO Safety Conference (Board Members of European Air Traffic Companies) Naviair. Copenhagen, Denmark. What the Board Needs to Know about the Cyber Threats to Aviation
EUROCONTROL/CANSO Network Manager Safety Team Naviair. Copenhagen, Denmark. Integrating Safety and Security Risk Assessments in European Air Traffic Management
25/4/2019 NCSC CyberUK 2019 SEC, Glasgow, UK A Socio-Technical Approach to Maximising Re-Use and Minimising Cost of Safety and Cyber-Security Rsik Assesments (Joint with Anna G, NCSC)
11/4/2019 Cross-Whitehall Government Briefing Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK Policy Implications for the Cyber Protection of National Critical Infrastructures
11/4/2019 Government Briefing, Ministry of Transport Ministry of Transport, Singapore Cyber Threats to Transport Infrastructures
10/4/2019 4th International Accident Investigators Forum Singapore Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB), Ministry of Transport, Singapore The Use of Accident Information to Tailor State Sponsored Cyber Attacks
28/2/2019 NCSC/RITICS and De Montford Cyber Week De Montford University, UK Cyber Security in Industrial Control Systems
14-15/2/2019 Cyber Security Assessment in Air Traffic Management European ATM Network Manager, Brussels, Belgium From Threat Assessments in Aviaiton to Cyber Risk Analysis and Prioritising Mitigations for Defence and Recovery
14/1/2019 NCSC Workshop Safety v Security: Challenges and Applications in the Cyber Security Era Cyber Security Academy, University of Southampton, UK Keynote: Using Safety Engineering in Cyber Offence
17-18/12/2018 Naviair - CEO and Board, Danish TBST (Regulator), Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen, Denmark Board Level Briefing on Cyber Threats in Aviation
12/11/2018 Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors: Human Factors in Aviation Safety Hilton, Gatwick, UK Socio-Technical Systems in Cyber Offence and Defence
8/11/2018 Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference - ASTC18 Heathrow Radisson, UK State Sponsored Offence in Cyber Attacks on Aviation Infrastructures
30/10/2018 The 13th International Conference on System Safety and Cyber Security The IET, Savoy Place, London, UK. The Role of System Safety in both Attack and Defence Against State Sponsored Cyber Attacks
29/10/2018 Operating Beyond the Edge: Safety Critical Systems and Human Factors The IET, Barrow in Furness, UK. Exploiting Human Factors in Offence and Defence against State Sponsored Cyber Attacks
27/09/2018 EC Network Manager WS03-2018: Experience to Enhance Safety Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Existing Cyber Threats for the European Air Traffic Management Supply Chain
27/09/2018 EC Network Manager WS03-2018: Experience to Enhance Safety Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Cyber Maturity Models for the European Air Traffic Management Supply Chain
26/09/2018 Cybertech Europe 2018 Rome, Italy Cyber Offence on Military RPAS/UAVs (On behalf of UK Department of International Trade)
14/09/2018 Belgacontrol Brussels, Belgium Cyber Concerns for Senior Executives (Safety and Procurement Issues)
13/09/2018 Royal Aeronautical Society London, UK Recent Developments in Offensive and Defensive Cyber Security
14/06/2018 Safety-Critical Systems Club: Safety of the Internet of Things London, UK Evidence Based Approaches to Cyber Security in Domestic and Industrial Internet of Things, with Carsten Maple, University of Warwick
06/06/2018 NATO - EUROCONTROL ATM Security Coordinating Group (NEASCOG) Brussels, Belgium The Role of Machine Learning in Offence and Defence for Cyber Security
05/06/2018 OPTICS2 Workshop on Aviation Cyber Security European Aviation Safety Agency, Cologne, Germany What New Threats Are on the Horizon?
15/5/2018 Spanish Association for Cyber Security and Data Protection La Asociaci?n Espa?ola para el Fomento de la Seguridad de la Informaci?n, Madrid, Spain The Cyber Security of Critical Applications
25/4/2018 ICS Cybersecurity Conference Hilton, Canary Wharf, UK Overview of the Challenges in Implementing the NIS Directive
24/4/2018 Airport CyberSecurity Workshop - Strengthening the Regional Supply Chain Maidenhead, UK Introduction to Airport and Aviation Cybersecurity
14/4/2018 Reykyavik Flight Safety Forum Hilton, Reykyavik, Iceland Cyber Forensic and TRest Facilities for Aviation Cybersecurity
13/3/2018 3rd Annual Rail Cyber Security Summit Regent Park, Marriot, London, UK Cyber Security for the Rail Supply Chain
13/3/2018 Maritime Cyber Security Summit Regent Park, Marriot, London, UK Cyber Security for the Maritime Supply Chain
8/2/2018 UK Safety-Critical Systems Symposium York, UK The Risks to Risk Assessment: On the Rise of AI and Non-Determinism in Safety-Critical Systems (with Martin Sablotny)
7/2/2018 Singapore Air Show, Cyber Security Business Forum Changi Airport, Singapore Improving the Cyber Security of the Aviation Supply Chain
31/1/2018 Launch of Munich Airport Information Security Hub Munich Airport, Germany Offensive Techniques in Aviaiotn Cyber Security
12/12/2017 Second Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium (GANIS/2) United Nations/ICAO HQ Montreal, Canada What cyber threats can do to the aviation industry
22/11/2017 Aviation Cyber Security Summit 2017 Marriott Regents Park, London The Dubai Paradox between State Sponsored Offence and Defence in the Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems
17/11/2017 Launch of the SICSA Cyber Security Nexus Royal Scot Club, Edinburgh The Role of Safety Research and Cyber Offence in the Defence of National Critical Infrastructures
2/11/2017 Royal Aeronautical Society Conference on Human Factors in Maintenance Royal Aeronautical Society, London Using Accident Reports as a Template for Cyber Attacks
30/10/2017 IET System Safety and Cyber Security Conference Savoy Place, London A Workshop on Defence Against State Sponsored Cyber Attacks on Safety-Critical Industrial Control Systems
27/10/2017 DFS (German Air Traffic Management) Langen, Germany Techniques to Support Training and Education in Cyber Secuerity for Safety-Critical Systems
16/10/2017 National Cyber Security Centre Conference on ICS Research NCSC, London, UK The Role of Offence and Defence in SCADA Cyber Security Research
29/9/2017 ES2 NM Human Factors and Systems Safety Thinking Conference Belgocontrol HQ< Brussels, Belgium. Implications from Data Driven Air Traffic Management
29/9/2017 ES2 NM Human Factors and Systems Safety Thinking Conference Belgocontrol HQ< Brussels, Belgium. The End of Risk Assessment in ATM? Black Swans, Cyber Security and the Resurgence of Artificial Intelligence
11/7/2017 Munich Security Conference Munich, Germany. The Cyber Security of Aviation - focus on Airports
10/7/2017 Frequentis AG Vienna, Austria. Ransomware and Supply Chain Support for Cyber-Security
11/5/2017 Meeting of CEOs Across European Air Traffic Management: Experience Sharing to Enhance Safety Frankfurt, Germany. Five Defensive Measures to Improve the Cyber Security of European Air Traffic Management
10/5/2017 EUROCONTROL Safety Team 17 DFS, Langen, Germany. State Sponsored and Terrorist Threats in the Cyber Security of Air Traffic Management
25/4/2017 Swedish Aviaiton Counter Terrorism Group Transport Styrelsen, (Sj?- och luftfartsavdelningen), Stockholm, Sweden. Attack and Defence in the Cyber Security of Aviation Infrastructures
20/4/2017 The Internet of Things Meets Cybersecurity University of Edinburgh, UK. Increasing Resilience in the Industrial Internet of Things
6/4/2017 International Civil Aviation Organisation First Cyber Security Summit in Aviation Dubai, UAE. Understanding and Combatting State Sponsored Cyber Attacks on Aviation Infrastructures
30/3/2017 IET - Nuclear Engineering for Safety, Control and Security Aztec Spa, Bristol, UK. The Convergence of Digital and Physical Security for Civil Nuclear Facilities
16/12/16 National Cyber Security Centre, London. [...] Success Story in Academia-Industry Collaboration
14/12/16 Department for Transport, London. Cyber-Security Group, DfT One Day Seminar on CyberSecurity for the UK Transport Sectors
6/12/16 Hilton, Green Park, London. Safety Critical Systems Club - New Challenges in System Safety The Role of Offensive Techniques in the Cyber Defence of UK Critical Infrastructures
29/11/16 Langen ACC, Frankfurt, Germany. DFS - German Air Traffic Control Cybersecurity of European Aviation and the Relationship with Drones/RPAS Integration
24/11/16 Innovationstrasse, Vienna. Frequentis AG Threats, Countermeasures and the Regulatory Environment for Cybersecurity in Europe
22-23/11/16 Munich Airtraffic Control Centre, Germany. DFS - German Air Traffic Control Safety and Degraded Modes of Operations
18/11/16 EUROCONTROL HQ, Brussels, Belgium. European Airport Operations Team Improving the Cybersecurity of Future Airport Operations
17/11/16 DG Move, Brussels, Belgium. Stakeholders Advisory Group for Aviation Security (DG Move) Threats and Opportunities for Cybersecurity in the Future of European Air Traffic Management
11/11/16 Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. ASDA Tournament Part of the SESAR Innovation Day Surveying the Cybersecurity of European Air Traffic Management
10/11/16 Parliament Buildings, Bucharest, Romania European Aviation Safety Agency, Invitation Only High-Level Meeting on Cybersecurity What are Exisiting 'Solutions' for Cybersecurity in European Aviation
9/11/16 Parliament Buildings, Bucharest, Romania European Aviation Safety Agency, Invitation Only High-Level Meeting on Cybersecurity What are the Threats to Cybersecurity in European Aviation
3/11/16 DeMontford University, Leicester UK. Annual Distinguished Lecture, Cyber Security Centre and Software Technology Research Lab Mapping Out Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities in UK SCADA Critical Infrastructures
27/10/16 EUROCONTROL HQ, Rue de la Fusee, Brussels, Belgium Airport Cyber Security under SESAR Building Castles on Sand: the Impact of Infrastructure Cybersecurity on Advanced Concepts of Operation
26/9/16 AirportIT Conference 2016 Heathrow Airport, London, UK (With Matt Shreeve - Helios and Olivier Ruhlmann - Aeroport de Paris) Key Issues in the Cyber Security of Airport Operations and Airport Operations Centres
26/9/16 ESREL (European Safety and Reliability Conference) 2016 Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland Keynote Tutorial: Cyber Security for High-Reliability, Safety-Critical Systems
22/9/16 Frequentis AG Vienna, Austria Supply Chain Security and Cyber Attacks on Safety-Related Communications Systems
20/7/16 Morgan Stanley Glasgow, UK. The Cyber Security of High Value Systems
13/7/16 Universidad Polytecnica da Madrid, Summer School Parador de la Granja, Nr Madrid, Spain. A Tutorial on Cyber Security for Safety-Critical Applications
12/7/16 Total Risk Management Worshop to Coincide with the Farnborough Air Show HELIOS, Farnborough, UK. A Total Risk Management Perspective on Cyber Security for Safety-Critical Applications
14/6/16 UK Crypto Delivery Capability: Implementing and Assuring Safety and Security Risks and Liabilities Thales Research, Reading, UK. Barriers to the Cyber Security of Safety-Critical Systems
24/5/16 GCHQ/CESG CyberUK: Launch of UK National Cyber Security Centre Liverpool, UK. On the Regulation of Cyber Security in Safety-Critical SCADA Systems
26/4/16 Frequentis User Experience Workshop (Invitation Only) Dubrovnik, Croatia. Examples of Previous Known Attacks on the European Air Traffic Management Supply Chain
23/3/16 EUROCONTROL ART Workshop on ATM Security and Cybersecurity ENAC (French National Aviation University), Toulouse, France. Improving the Cybersecurity of the ATM Supply Chain (Invited talk)
18/3/16 EC EATS Final Project Workshop on ERTMS Support Madrid, Spain. RAMS Analysis for EATS in ERTMS/ETCS Research and Development
4/2/16 Norwergian Civil Aviation Authority Annual Conference (Luftfartknferansen) Bodo, Norway. Competency Requirements for the Regulation of Cybersecurity in Civil Aviation (Invited tutorial)
4/2/16 Norwergian Civil Aviation Authority Annual Conference (Luftfartknferansen) Bodo, Norway. Cybersecurity and the Need for a Revolution in Aviation Safety Regulation (Keynote)
3/2/16 IET Conference on the Cyber-Security of SCADA and ICS Applications The IET, Savoy Place, London, UK. Tutorial on Cyber-Forensics for Industrial Control and SCADA Systems
2/2/16 UK Safety-Critical Systems Symposium 2016 The Grand Hotel, Brighton, UK. Why We Cannot (Yet) Maintain the Cyber-Security of Safety-Critical Systems
19-20/11/15 Royal Aeronautical Society Human Factors Group Conference: Predisting the Fatal Flaw 2015 Virgin Atlantic Base, Gatwick, UK. New Forms of Regulation for the Human Factors of Aviation Cyber-Security and Safety
19-20/11/15 DSTL/MOD/CSEG Porton Down, UK Workshop on the Vulnerabilities, Threats and Solutions to Cybersecurity in Safety-Critical Systems
05/11/15 High Integrity Systems 2015 Bristol, UK High Integrity and Low Security? Understanding the Tradeoffs between Safety and Cybersecurity
28/10/15 Trafik-Og Byggeestyrelsen (Danish Transport and Construction Agency) Copenhagen, Denmark CyberSafety: Interactions between Safety abd Cybersecurity Across the Transportation Industries
12/10/15 Chinese Centre for Aerodynamic Research and Development (CARDC) Mianyang, nr Chengdu, China Increasing Challenges for the Development of Dependable Software in Airborne and Ground-Based Systems
5/10/15 Frequentis AG Vienna, Austria The CyberThreat to Aviation from Islamic State and State-supported Terrorist Organisations
2/10/15 5th Conference on Automation and Control (ATTACS 2015) IRIT, Toulouse, France NextGen and SESAR Revisted: If I Wanted to Go There I Would Not Start from Here 2
18/9/15 ST Engineering, System Safety Seminar Singapore The Safety Management of Autonomous and Unmanned Systems - Lessons for Civil Systems from the Military Use of RPAS
14-18/9/15 UGS/SIT Singapore Masterclass in Systems Safety Engineering
16/9/15 International Systems Safety Society, Singapore Chapter Singapore Software in UAV/RPAS Military Aviation Mishaps
7-10/9/15 ST Kinetics (and group partners) Singapore Masterclass in IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 Safety-Critical Software Standards
17-21/8/15 School of Mobile Information Engineering, Sun Yat=Sen University, Zhuhai, China Masterclass in Systems Safety Engineering
21/7/15 British Embassy, Washington - Foreign and Commonwealth Office University of Texas, Arlington, USA The CyberSecurity of Air Traffic Management Systems under SESAR and NextGen
29/5/15 Australian Systems Safety Conference Invited Keynote/Australian Computer Society Customs House, Brisbane, Australia Cyber Security and Safety-Critical Systems under the Threat of Persistant Terrorist Regimes
20/5/15 European Commission (DG Move) and European Aviation Safety Agency Conference on Cybersecurity in Aviation Place Schumann, Brussels High Level Policy Briefing on the Urgent Need for Reform in the Cybersecurity of European Air Traffic Management and Changes in the Basic Regulations
20/5/15 United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Conference on CBRN Facilities Hotel du Lac, Brussels Project 19: An Overview of Cyber Security for CBRN Facilities
21/4/15 UK Safety Critical Systems Club Meeting on the Safety of National Critical Infrastructures Cumberland Hotel, London, UK Comparison of CyberSecurity Challenges Securing the Supply Chain across Nuclear and Aviation Infrastructures
20/4/15 European Commission, DG Move, Meeting on Revisions to the Basic Regulations. Brussels, Belgium An Overview of the Regulatory, Legal and Operational Vulnerabilities in the Cybersecurity of European Aviation
3/2/15 IET Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems London, UK The CyberSecurity of Safety Related ICS: Who Pays the Costs?
28/11/14 Skyguide Technik Group, ACC Zurich Dubbendorf, Switzerland The Rise of the ATSEP and the Fall of the ATCO - Safety Issues in Engineering in ATM
26-7/11/14 Skyguide Safety Reporting Team Olympic Training Centre, Maglingen, Switzerland Safety 2, Air Traffic Management and Incident Analysis
25/11/14 Skyguide Technik Group, ACC Geneva Geneva Airport Switzerland The Rise of the ATSEP and the Fall of the ATCO - Safety Issues in Engineering in ATM
25/9/14 Danish Forum for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning Conference on Critica Infrastructures and IT Vulnerabilities Danish Parliament, Copenhagen, Denmark Smart Cities will not be Smart Enough: The Increasing Cyber-Security Concerns in the Internet of Things
25/9/14 ES2: WSO2-14 Safety Human Performance System; EUROCONTROL Conference Lisbon, Portugal On the Urgent Need for Some Creativity and Innovation in Air Traffic Management Software: Assessing the Risk from Derbis to People on the Ground from Flexible, ADS-B Enhanced Precision Approaches
9/9/2014 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2014) University of Glasgow Opening Keynote on the Security of Safety-Critical Systems
21/8/2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival The Guardian Spiegel Tent Invited Chair of Dialogue 11: War - Does Modern Warfare Call for New Defence Solutions with Profs David Galbraith and Paul Cornish
19-20/5/2014 STEM Teachers Forum Forth Valley College, Stirling, UK Cybersecurity and Forensics in Safety-Critical Control Systems
19-20/5/2014 DFS Langen, Germany Seminars on Degraded Modes in ATM Computational Systems
12/5/2014 Frequentis Vienna, Austria Cybersecurity in ATM
10/4/2014 The Danish Society of Engineers Copenhagen, Denmark Methods for Improving Cyber Security in Safety-Critical Industries
12/2/2014 Cybersecurity 2014: Protecting Public Sector Networks Holyrood, Edinburgh, UK Cyber-Insurance and the Incentivisation of Cyber-Security
7/2/2014 Luftfartskonferansen 2014 (NorWegian Civil Aviaiton Authority) Bodoe, Norway Cyber-Security and the Safety of Civil Aviation
17-18/9/2013 ES2-WS3-13, System Safety and Human Performance: Why Things Go Right Dublin Ireland with Erik Hollnagel and David Woods Coping with System Failure and Cybersecurity in NextGen and SESAR
17-18/9/2013 DFS Langen, Germany Seminars on Degraded Modes in ATM Computational Systems
12-13/9/2013 Hungarocontrol Budapest, Hungary Seminars on Degraded Modes in ATM Computational Systems
3/9/2013 Holyrood's 4th Annual COnference on Cloud Computing Edinburgh, UK Safeguarding the Cloud
19-23/8/2013 School of Software, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China Foundation Course in Safety-Critical Systems
18/6/2013 Siemens AG,Infrastructure & Cities Sector, Mobility and Logistics Division Braunschweig, Deutschland Reasons for the Failure to Integrate Direct Operator Control and Unmanned Autonomous Systems
18/6/2013 Siemens AG,Infrastructure & Cities Sector, Mobility and Logistics Division Braunschweig, Deutschland Rapid Risk Assessment and the Need to Support Safety Regulators
18/6/2013 Siemens AG,Infrastructure & Cities Sector, Mobility and Logistics Division Braunschweig, Deutschland Cybersecurity across Rail, Healthcare and Aviation Infrastructures
7/6/2013 50th Anniversary, Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft, TU Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany Reflections on the Failure of Integration for UAVs with Controlled Airspace
7/6/2013 50th Anniversary, Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft, TU Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany Cybersecurity Across the Healthcare and Rail Industries
17/5/2013 ENAC Ecole Nationale de l'Aviaiton Toulouse, France Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Security and Safety of European Transportation Infrastructures
2/5/2013 2013 International Surgical Congress of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Glasgow, Scotland Interactions between Cybersecurity and Safety for Surgeons
22-23/1/2013 WISK 2013: Workshop Interdisciplinaire sur la Securite Globale Troyes, France The Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities being Introduced by the Integration of European Markets and Infrastructures
17-18/1/2013 MATS: Maltese Air Traffic Management Organisaiton Malta Degraded Modes and the Management of Safety and Security Critical Infrastructures
15/11/2012 The Danish Society of Engineers Copenhagen, Denmark A Comparison of the Impact of Cyber Security Incidents in Healthcare and in Transportation
14/11/2012 EUROCONTROL Security Team (SET) Brussels, Belgium The Use of Incident Reporting and Simulations in Cyber Security and the Preservation of Safety Margins in Air Traffic Management
31/10/2012 The Lloyds Register Educaiton Trust Annual Lecture London, UK The Cyber Security of Safety-Critical Transportation Infrastructures
19/10/2012 European Network and Information Security Agency, Article 13a Implementation Subgroup Mainz, Germany Previous Limitations and Future Opportunites for CyberSecurity Incident Reporting Systems
13/10/2012 New Technologies and Work Expert Group Soreze, France On the Future of Sub-Orbital and Orbital Accident Investigation for Commercial Space Flight
12/9/2012 6th International Conference: Working on Safety Sopot, Poland The Impact of World Economic Crisis on the Regulation of Safety-Critical Systems
19-20/6/2012 General Directorate of State Airports Authority of Turkey (DHMI), Training Centre Ankara Degraded Modes and Cyber-Security in ATM
21-22/5/2012 EUROCONTROL, IANS, Training Centre Admnistration de la Navigation Ae'rienne, de Luxembourg Degraded Modes and Cyber-Security in ATM
18/5/2012 Elifriulia Helicopter Company, Nr Udine, Italy Safety Concerns in Unconventional Mass Emergencies Risk Management for the Coordination of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Mass Emergencies
12/3/2012 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, 50th Anniversary Meeting, South East Europe Naples, Italy Military and Civil Consequences for Cyberattacks on Safety-Critical Applications
28/2/2012 EUROCONTROL Meeting for European Chief Executive Officers in Air Traffic Companies, Limassol, Cyprus Interactions between System Failures and Cyberattacks in Safety-Critical Applications
8/2/2012 UK Safety Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol UK Safety-Critical Systems Club Cyber-Safety: On the Interaction between safety and Security in Critical Infrastructures
14/2/2012 Langen, Germany DFS, German Air Traffic Management organisation Cyber-Safety in Air Traffic management Infrastructures
9-10/1/2011 Brussels, Belgium EUROCONTROL CFMU Degraded Modes and CyberSecurity in ATM
5-6/1/2011 Copenhagen, Denmark Naviair, Danish Air Traffic Management organisation Degraded Modes and CyberSecurity in ATM
19/10/2011 Brussels, Belgium EUROCONTROL Safety Human Performance Sub-Group on the Urgent Need to Improve CyberSecurity in ATM
19/10/2011 Brussels, Belgium EUROCONTROL Safety Human Performance Sub-Group Scaring Directors and Senior Managers about Degraded Modes of Operation in ATM
13/10/2011 Gatwick, London, UK Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Regulation Group The Impact of CyberSecurity on the Safety of Aviation Operations
30/9/2011 Soreze, France New Technologies and Work Expert Group The Role of Anti-Social Networking in Cyber Attacks
21/9/2011 Bled, Slovenia EUROCONTROL Software Safety Merting for European Air Traffic Management Degraded Modes and Rapid Risk Assessments for Software Safety
2/9/2011 Aalto University, Finland International Maritime Incident and Near-Miss Reporting Conference Barriers to the Use of Incident Reporting to Inform Risk Assessments
21/6/2011 Formal Methods 2011 Workshop on Formal Methods and Interactive Systems, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland Formalising Cyber Security Concerns for Safety-Critical Interaction with Global Navigation Satellite Systems
5/4/2011 Royal Alexandria Hospital, Paisley, UK Emergency Medical Retrieval Service The Impact of Fatigue on Safety-Critical Systems
8/12/2010 US Air Force, Space Command, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs Safety and Cyber Threats Software Configuration Management for Space Systems: What Have We Got Running Up There?
7/12/2010 US Air Force, Space Command Safety and Cyber Threats Human Error and the Darwin Awards in Space Systems Engineering
26/11/2010 International Rail Accident Investigation Conference RAIB/IMechE, London, UK Comparisons of Causal Analysis Techniques for Railway Accident Investigation
26/11/2010 International Rail Accident Investigation Conference RAIB/IMechE, London, UK Workshop on Causal Analysis Techniques for Railway Accident Investigation (Part Two)
25/11/2010 International Rail Accident Investigation Conference RAIB/IMechE, London, UK Workshop on Causal Analysis Techniques for Railway Accident Investigation (Part One)
5/11/2010 ACM HCI in Aerospace HCI in Aerospace, 2010, Cape Canaveral, Florida If I was Going There, I Would Not Start From Here: Limitations of NextGen and SESAR
20/10/2010 The IET Systems Safety Conference 2010 A Global Perspective on Systems Safety
14/10/2010 EUROCONTROL 2nd Human Performance Sub-Group Brussels, Belgium Degraded Modes of Operation and the Engineering of Air Traffic Management Systems
25-26/8/2010 DFS, Safety Team (German Air Traffic Management) Langen, Germany Review of Advanced Incident Investigation Techniques
26/5/2010 Synergi Solutions AS, Network Meeting Network Meeting, Stavanger, 2010 Rapid Risk Assessments: Next Generation Safety Assessments in Renewable Energy and Aviation
11/3/2010 DFS, Langen, Germany Deutches Flight Safety Forum On the Integration of UAV's into Controlled Airspace
24/9/2009 IET Making Green Power Work Why None of this Will Work: A Cynic's Perspective on Renewable Power and Energy Security
12/5/2009 Milngavie Primary School P6 Careers Session Safety-Critical Software Engineering in Aerospace Applications
23/10/2008 EUROCONTROL Annual Safety Research and Development Workshop, Keynote Speaker NATS/Southampton, UK Analysing the Institutional Response to a Mid-Air Collision: International Regulation and the Role of ATM Research
29/5/2008 Mobile Response 2008, Invited Speaker Fraunhofer, Bonn, Germany Chaos, Complexity and Context: Understanding the Failure of Mobile Systems in Emergency Situations
31/8/2007 Australian Safety-Critical Systems Society, Invited Speaker Annual Conference - Invited Talk Planning for the Worst: Understanding the Interaction between Safety and Security in Contingency Planning for National Criitcal Infrastructure Protection
30/8/2007 Australian Safety-Critical Systems Society, Invited Speaker Annual Conference - Invited Talk The Paradoxes of Military Risk Assessment: Night Vision Accidents and the Perils of Composite Risk Management
15/8/2007 International Systems Safety Conference, Invited International Speaker 25th Annual Conference - Invited Talk, Baltimore, USA Contingency Planning and Civil Resilience or How Could I Be That Dumb?
5/7/2007 Milngavie Primary School P6 Science Session Understanding how Engineering Failures Contribute to the Science of Flight
14/2/2007 UK Safety Critical Systems Club, Annual Symposium 15th Annual Conference - Invited Talk (With C. Michael Holloway, NASA Langley) A Longitudinal Analysis of the Causal Factors in Major Maritime Accidents in the USA and Canada (1996-2006)
5/2/2007 AgentCities Workshop on Disaster Management The Role of Computational Simulations in Contingency Planning
6/7/2006 Risk and Security Management Forum Risk and Security Management Summer Meeting 2006 Modelling the Causes of Failure in Large Scale Power Distribution Networks
24/6/2006 Royal College of Defence Studies International Terrorism and Intelligence 2006 Mitigation Engineering to Reduce the Consequences of Terrorist Actions
19/5/2006 NASA/National Institute of Aerospace US Air Force Research Award Understanding the Root Cases of Aviation Accidents
10/5/2006 NATO Advanced Research Workshop Computational Models of Risks to infrastructure, Primosten, Croatia Computational Models for Large Scale Evacuations following Infrastructure Failures
21/3/2006 Institute of Electrical Engineers, Scotland Edinburgh Meeting, Electronics, Control and Informatics Applying Accident Investigation Techniques to Cybercrime
7/3/2006 British Computer Society Glasgow Meeting From 9/11 to 2012: Computer Simulation of Mass Evacuations
22/11/2005 Institute of Electrical Engineers, Scotland Electronics, Control and Informatics Myths and Reality of CyberCrime
14/11/2005 European Commission Safety and Security of Energy Infrastructures V2 Analysis of the Managerial Precursors for Human Error
30/9/2005 Southern Institute for Health Informatics Southern Institute for Health Informatics Conference, Portsmouth Lessons Learned from Hospital Evacuations in Hurricane Katrina
8/9/2005 University of Manchester Design, Communication and Emergence Human Behavior in Hospital Evacuations
22/7/2005 Formal Methods 2005 Formal Methods 2005 The Natural History of Bugs: Formal Reasoning about Accidents
2004 British Medical Journal Quality and Safety in Healthcare Data Audit and Security
8/2004 University of Bath/EPSRC Workshop on Complexity in Design Complexity and the Mars Surveyor'98 Missions
7/2003 NASA Langley Research Center Investigation and Reporting of Incidents and Accidents Newspaper and Online Reporting of Major Accidents
8/2002 NASA Langley Research Colloquium The Relationship Between Human Error and Managerial Decision Making
12/2002 Human Factors Human Factors 2002 Making Sense of Military Incident and Accident Reporting
3/2001 Harvard University/MIT Workshop on Incident and Accident Reporting The Heinrich Ratio for Incident and Accident Reporting
10/2000 European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) Annual Conference (Gothenberg) Human Error in Medicine
3/2000 NASA 5th NASA Workshop on Formal Methods A Preliminary Study into the Integration of Formal Methods, Risk Assessment and Decision Theory
9/1998 International Systems Safety Society ISSC Conference Novel Computational Techniques for Incident Reporting


Seminars and Conference Papers

Date Venue Title of Talk Info
4/3/2020 IET South-Easdt Scotland Napier University, Edinburgh Supply Chain Cyber Security in the Delivery of 5G and National Critical Infrastructures/td>
13/9/2019 ST AI and ST Engineering Singapore Supporting the Integration of Machine Learning into Safety-Critical Systems from UAVs to Autonomous Vehicles
19/12/2018 University of Southern Denmark, Unmanned Aerial Systems Centre, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute Odense, Denmark Using Safety Techniques in Cyber Offence against Aviation Infrastructures
19/12/2018 University of Southern Denmark, Unmanned Aerial Systems Centre, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute Odense, Denmark Using IoT Techniques to Design High Density Drone Operations for Reduced Risk, Environmental Impact and Noise Minimisation
24/10/18 Systems Group seminar (GLASS) University of Glasgow, UK. Overview of Recent Cyber Attacks on Aviaiotn and Civil Nuclear Systems
19-21/9/17 Functional Airspace Block for Central Europe (FAB-CE) Split, Croatia. Cyber Security for Air Traffic Management Systems
18/9/17 Frequentis Austria, Vienna. Update on Cyber Security for Safety-Critical Communications Systems
11/9/17 UK Dept for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy London. Cyber Security Consultations
1/9/17 Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) Singapore. Cyber Security for Embedded and Autonomous Control Systems
31/8/17 ST Kinetics Singapore. Overview of Cyber Security Techniques for SCADA Firmware
24/8/17 35th International Systems Safety Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Applying Lessons from Cyber Attacks on Ukrainian Infrastructures to Secure Gateways onto the Industrial Internet of Things - Repeat presentation for Best Paper Award
23/8/17 35th International Systems Safety Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Cybernetics in the Integration of Artificial Intelligence for Safety-Critical Systems
22/8/17 35th International Systems Safety Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Applying Lessons from Cyber Attacks on Ukrainian Infrastructures to Secure Gateways onto the Industrial Internet of Things (*Best paper award*)
21/8/17 35th International Systems Safety Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Defending Against Firmware Attacks on Safety-Critical Systems
26/4/2017 Department for Transport, Aviation Security Team Goodenough College, London. Threats to UK Civil Aviation (with Matt Shreeve and Bertie Aspinall, Helios UK)
1/2/17 Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, UK. Improving the Cyber Security of Transport Infrastructures
20/1/17 French National Institute of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Fluid Mechanics & Telecommunications and Networks, (INP-ENSEEIHT) Toulouse, France. Cyber Defence in Safety-Critical Systems
8/12/16 Dept of Computing Science, University of Swansea Swansea, UK. The Cyber Security of the Industrial Internet of Things
9/8/16 34th International Systems Safety Conference, Orlando, USA Orlando, FL, USA. Forensic Attack Analysis and the Cyber-Security of Safety-Critical Systems
9/8/16 34th International Systems Safety Conference, Orlando, USA Orlando, FL, USA. You Outsource the Service but Not the Risk: Supply Chain Risk Management for the Cyber Security of Safety-Critical Systems
9/8/16 34th International Systems Safety Conference, Orlando, USA Orlando, FL, USA. The Role of Regulators in Safeguarding the Interface between Autonomous Systems and the General Public
13/6/16 Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Southampton, UK Advancing Research in the Cyber Security of Safety-Critical Systems
25/9/15 IET System Safety and Cyber Security 2015 Bristol UK The Role of Cyber Insurance, Market Forces, Tort and Regulation in the Cyber-Security of Safety-Critical Industries
25/9/15 IET System Safety and Cyber Security 2015 Bristol UK Cyber Security and the Future of Air Traffic Management: Identifying the Challenges for NextGen and SESAR
25/9/15 SAFECOMP 2015 Delft, Netherlands Organisational, Political, Technical Barriers to the Integration of Safety and Cyber-Security incident Reporting Systems
25/9/15 SAFECOMP 2015 Delft, Netherlands Barriers to the Use of Intrusion Detection Systems in Safety-Critical Applications
30/7/15 Belgocontrol Brussels, Belgium Supply Chain Risk Management in Safety-Critical Systems
30/7/15 Belgocontrol Brussels, Belgium Human Factors Training for ATSEPS and the Recovery from Contingency Events in Air Traffic Management
16/6/15 Federal Aviation Administration Washington DC, USA Using Network Monitoring for both CyberSecurity Intrusion Detection and the Identification of Safety Related COncerns
12/7/15 Belgocontrol Brussels, Belgium Degraded Modes and the Investigation of Power Systems Failures in Air Traffic Management
12/7/15 Frequentis Vienna, Austria Intrustion Detection and Cyber Incident Reporting for Safety-Critical Systems
27/5/15 Australian Systems Safety Conference/Australian Computer Society Customs House, Brisbane, Australia A Tutorial on Cyber Security for Safety-Critical SCADA Systems
12/5/2015 Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France On the Need for European Cooperation in Minimum Mutual Cyber Security Standards in Air Traffic Management
11-12/4/2015 22nd Annual World Congress on CBRNe Science and Consequence Management Zagreb Croatia - on beh;af of European Commission and United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Cyber Security Management Systems for CBRN Facilities
15/12/14 SICSA Annual Cyber Security Christmas Lecture Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow The Impact of Cyber-Attacks on the UK Aviation Industry
4/11/14 Greener Aeronautics Symposium The Senate Room, University of Glasgow Using the Internet of Things to Inform Greener Aviation Initiatives
15/10/14 9th International Conference on System Safety and Cyber Security IET, Midland Hotel Manchester Attack Visalisation for Cyber Security Situation Awareness with Maria Evangelopolou
15/10/14 9th International Conference on System Safety and Cyber Security IET, Midland Hotel Manchester Tools and Techniques for Reporting and Analysing the Causes of Cyber-Security Incidents in Safety-Critical Systems
14/10/14 9th International Conference on System Safety and Cyber Security IET, Midland Hotel Manchester Tutorial on Cyber Security in Safety Critical Systems
09/10/2013 University of Birmingham Department of Computing Science Cyber-Security Vulnerabilities in SCADA Networks and SmartGrid architectures
30/09/2013 GMV Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain The Role that Software Plays in Recent Currency Futures Frauds
19/9/2014 Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Singapore The Impact of Cyber-Security and the Resilience of Smart Grid Infrastructures across Singapore and Asia
16/9/2014 Republic Polytechnic Buildings, Woodlands, Singapore International Systems Safety Society, Singapore Chapter Interactions between Cyber-Security and Systems Safety - Implications for Singapore and Asia
15-19/9/2014 Republic Polytechnic Buildings, Woodlands, Singapore University of Glasgow Singapore Introduction to Safety-Critical Systems and Systems Safety
8/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Practical Insights for the Exchange of Lessons Learned in Accident and Incident Investigation (Best paper award - repeat presentation of best paper)
7/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Inadequate Legal, Regulatory and Technical Guidance for the Forensic Analysis of Cyber-Attacks on Safety-Critical Software
7/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Supporting the Exchange of Lessons Learned from CyberSecurity Incidents in Safety-Critical Industries
7/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Innovation vs Safety: Hazard Analysis Techniques to Avoid Premature Commitment during the Early Stage Development of National Critical Infrastructures
6/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Simulating the Risks of Sub-orbital Space Flight for Air Traffic Management
5/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Tutorial on the Cyber-Security of Safety-Critical Systems
4/8/2014 Union Station Hotel, Saint Louis, 32nd International Systems Safety Conference 2014 Practical Insights for the Exchange of Lessons Learned in Accident and Incident Invedstigation (Best paper award)
1/8/2014 San Jose, Conference Centre, HCI in Aerospace 2014 Security Concerns from RPAS Experience in Single Crew Concepts of Operations
29/7/2014 NASA Ames, California, USA Safety and Security Concerns in Single Crew Concepts of Operations
24/3/2014 Frequentis Vienna, Austria On the Business Impact of Cybersecurity in Safety-Critical Industries
27/1/2014 Faculty of Technology, Business Management and Work University of Delft, NL On the Philosophical and Engineering Concepts of Causation in Accident Analysis
20/11/2013 EUROCONTROL, Human Factors Working Group Madrid, Spain Integrated Approaches to the Causal Analysis of Safety and Security Critical Incidents
19/11/2013 GMV Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain Degraded Modes and the CyberSecurity of Safety-Critical Systems
13/11/2013 University of Glasgow CompSoc Glasgow, UK On the Need for Consistent Accident Investigation Policies Covering Commercial, Sub-Orbital Space Flights
5/9/2013 VP External Relations, Singapore Inst of Technology Glasgow, UK Integrated Safety and Security Concerns
19/5/2013 Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen Aberdeen, UK Identifying Vulnerabilities to Cyber-Attacks in National Critical Infrastructures
17/5/2013 CEIT/universidad de Navarra Donestia, Spain Safety Assessments and RAMS for Level 3 ECTS
19/2/2013 Nuffield Dept of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford Oxford, UK Risks and Opportunities for Automated Decision Support Software in Clinical Applications
17/12/2012 Ecole des Mines/Paris Tech, Sophia Antipolis, France Cybersecurity Incident Reporting
11-12/12/2012 Croatia Control, Zagreb, Croatia Lessons Learned for Rapid Risk Assessment in Air Traffic Management
26-27/11/2012 DFS Langen, Germany Degraded Modes and CyberSecurity in Air Traffic Management
2/11/2012 MSc in Forensics and Digital Discovery talk University of Glasgow, UK An Overview of Security Issues in Safety-Critical Infrastructures
2/11/2012 School of Computing Science Talk University of Glasgow, UK Links Between EC 2009/140/EC Article 13a Minimum Security and the NATO MNE-7 Cyber Simulations
16/10/2012 IET Systems Safety Conference 2012 Edinburgh, UK Preparing for Cyber-Attacks on Air-Traffic Management Infrastructures: Cyber-safety Scenario Generation
16/10/2012 IET Systems Safety Conference 2012 Edinburgh, UK Comparing the Identification of Recommendations by Different Accident Investigatiors Using a Common (SOL) Methodology
8/5/2012 Glasgow UK TechMeetup Architectures for State Sponsored CyberAttacks
8/5/2012 Toulouse, France Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), University CyberSafety in Air Traffic Management
8/5/2012 Toulouse, France Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), University Human Factors, Interactive Systems and the Future of European Integration
21/2/2012 Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow University, MRes/MSc in Global Security CyberSafety and the Poltics of Safety-Critical Infrastructures
21/2/2012 Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow University, Professonal and Social Issues The Impact of Fatigue on Safety-Critical Interaction
8/11/2011 Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow School of Art, Product Design Engineering Group Human Factors and the Interaction between Design and Accident Investigation
4/11/2011 Haugesund, Norway Stord/Haugesund University College, Dept of Maritime Studies A Crash-Course on Accident and Incident Investigation
17/10/2011 Versailles/Paris, France NASA/ESA International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety 5th Conference Compacency and Mismanagement in the Early Stages of Space Mission Planning
17/10/2011 Versailles/Paris, France NASA/ESA International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety 5th Conference Promoting Resilience in Human Space Flight at a Time of Fiscal Pressure
18/10/2011 Versailles/Paris, France NASA/ESA International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety 5th Conference CyberSecurity Threats to Space Based Critical Infrastructures
7/10/2011 Glasgow, Scotland. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow The Attribution Problem and A Brief History of State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks
14/9/2011 Guangzhou, China. School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University A Introduction to Safety Engineering for Space-Based Systems
11/8/2011 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Annual Conference of the Int. Systems Safety Society Myths and Barriers to the Introduction of Safety Cases in Space Systems
10/8/2011 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Annual Conference of the Int. Systems Safety Society Competency management Systems to Support the Training of Accident and Incident Investigators
10/8/2011 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Annual Conference of the Int. Systems Safety Society Managing the Impact of Security Threats on Safety-Critical Global Navigation Satellite Systems
9/8/2011 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Annual Conference of the Int. Systems Safety Society A Systemic Approach to Cunter IED Operations
9/8/2011 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Annual Conference of the Int. Systems Safety Society Rapid Risk Assessment Techniques to Combat Degraded Modes of Operation in Military Systems
2/12/2010 NASA, Johnson Space Centre Subcontractor Safety Forum Potential Stengths and Weaknesses of Safety Cases for NASA Systems Engineering
1/12/2010 NASA, Johnson Space Centre Subcontractor Safety Forum Infrastructure Risk Management and Subcontracting Safety Engineering
17/11/2010 Department of Ergonomics, TU Darmstadt Safety Concerns from the Operation of Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS)
20/10/2010 IET Systems Safety Conference 2010 Manchester, UK (With C.M. Holloway, NASA Langley) A Safety Conundrum Illustrated: Logic, Mathematics and Science Are Not Enough
20/10/2010 IET Systems Safety Conference 2010 Manchester, UK Safety Arguments for Next Generation, Location Aware Computing
8/10/2010 Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow Cakes Talk Extracting the Urine: Resilience Engineering in Human Space Flight
15/9/2010 Vienna, Austria SAFECOMP 2010 Computational Concerns in the Integration of Unmanned Airborne Systems into Controlled Airspace
15/9/2010 Vienna, Austria SAFECOMP 2010 On the Safety Implications for e-Governance: Assessing the Hazards of Enterprise Information Architectures in Safety-Critical Applications
9/9/2010 Glasgow, UK Workshop on Inter-Infrastructure Risks Due to Natural Hazards, School of Computing Science, Glagsow University Lessons Learned from Previous Infrastructure Failures
17/6/2010 University of Glasgow Open Day, Public Talk Contingency Planning, Computing Science and the End of Civilisation?
26/3/2010 Department of Computing Science, University of Stirling Seminar Computational Issues in the Integration of UAVs into Controlled Air Space
2/2/2010 Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow Cakes Talk SESAR and the Future Role of Computation in Air Traffic Management
2/2/2010 DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung HQ, Langen, Germany Seminar Degraded Modes and the Problems of Maintaining Air Traffic Management Infrastructures
2/2/2010 DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung HQ, Langen, Germany Seminar The Impact of UAS and UAVs Freight Operations on the Safety of Controlled Airspace
13/1/2010 British Computer Society Edinburgh Branch Meeting Contingency Planning for Computational Infrastructures and the Impact of Pandemics
9/12/2009 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Reasons for the Failure of Large-Scale IT Procurement in the UK NHS and the US Veteran's Affairs Administration _
13/11/2009 Combined MSc Courses, Department of Computing, University of Glasgow How to Use Computers to Steal $30 Million: Case Studies in Cybercrime _
7/8/2009 Department of Computing, Open University Really Extreme Programming: Software Engineering in the Failure of National Critical Infrastructures _
7/8/2009 International Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama A 'Systemic Approach' for Countering the Threat to Public Safety from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) (Best paper talk) _
6/8/2009 International Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama Configuration Management as a Common Factor in Space Related Mishaps _
6/8/2009 International Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama Insights from the Nogales Predator Crash for the Integration of UAVs into the National Airspace System under FAA Interim Operational Guidance 08-01 _
5/8/2009 International Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama A 'Systemic Approach' for Countering the Threat to Public Safety from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) _
5/8/2009 Joint Weapons Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama Degraded Modes and the 'Culture of Coping' in Military Operations: An Analysis of a Fatal Incident On-Board HMS Tireless on 20/21 March 2007 _
5/8/2009 Joint Weapons Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama Interactions between Brown-out Accidents and Night Vision Equipment in Military Aviation Accidents _
5/8/2009 International Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama The Dangers of Interaction with Modular and Self-Healing Avionics Applications: Redundancy Considered Harmful _
4/8/2009 International Systems Safety Conference, Huntsville Alabama Configuration Management: A Critical Analysis of Applications Using the 8-Step Problem Solving Method _
7/5/2009 Laboratorio di Interazione Uomo-Macchina, University of Udine, Italy Extending the Use of Evacuation Simulators from Fires and Structural Collapses to Support a Coordinated Emergency Response to Improvised Explosive Devices _
6/5/2009 Laboratorio di Interazione Uomo-Macchina, University of Udine, Italy Human Error Modelling in Emergency Management from Space Mission Failures to Pandemic Planning _
5/5/2009 Laboratorio di Interazione Uomo-Macchina, University of Udine, Italy Human Error, Patient Safety and Healthcare: Understanding the Proliferation of Barely Usable Software in Clinical Applications _
26/3/2009 National Patient Safety Agency - NHS Connecting for Health Politics and Patient Safety Dont Mix: Understanding the Failure of Large-Scale IT Procurement for Healthcare _
11/2/2009 Glasgow, Scotland MSc in Computer Science/Advanced Computing Science Using Mobile Computational Systems to Support UK Resilience to Mass Flooding
22/10/2008 NEC, Birmingham, UK IET Systems Safety Conference Using Mathematical Models to Guide the Simulation of Improvised Explosive Devices in Public Spaces (With L. Nilsen-Nygaard)
22/10/2008 NEC, Birmingham, UK IET Systems Safety Conference Military Risk Assessment in Counter Insurgency Operations: A Case Study in the Retrieval of a UAV, Nr Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 11th June 2006
22/10/2008 NEC, Birmingham, UK IET Systems Safety Conference How Past Loss of Control Accidents may Inform Safety Cases for Advanced Control Systems on Commercial Aircraft (with C.M. Holloway)
22/10/2008 NEC, Birmingham, UK IET Systems Safety Conference Computational Support for Identifying Safety and Security Related Dependencies between National Critical Infrastructures
22/10/2008 NEC, Birmingham, UK IET Systems Safety Conference Tools for Local Critical Infrastructure Protection: Computational Support for Identifying Safety and Security Related Dependencies Between Local Ciritcal Infrastructures
22/10/2008 NEC, Birmingham, UK IET Systems Safety Conference `Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure': An Overview of Operational Incidents Involving UAVs in Afghanistan (2003-2005)
6/10/2008 Glasgow, Scotland British Computer Society What Impact Would Pandemics Have on Our Computational Infrastructures?
1/10/2008 Glasgow, Scotland MSc in Computer Forensics Realities of Cybercrime
27/8/2008 Vancouver, Canada 26th Annual Conference of the International Systems Safety Society High-Level Architectures for Contingency Planning in Air Traffic Management
27/8/2008 Vancouver, Canada 26th Annual Conference of the International Systems Safety Society The Hidden Human Factors in Unmanned Aerial Vehivles (UAVs) (with C. Shea)
27/8/2008 Vancouver, Canada 26th Annual Conference of the International Systems Safety Society The Role of Trust and Interaction in GPS Related Accidents: A Human Factors Safety Assessment of the Global Positioning System (With C.M. Holloway and C. Shea)
26/8/2008 Vancouver, Canada 26th Annual Conference of the International Systems Safety Society On the Convergence of Physical and Digital Security for Public Safety at Olympic Events
26/8/2008 Vancouver, Canada 26th Annual Conference of the International Systems Safety Society Extending the Use of Evacuation Simulators to Support Counter Terrorism (with L. Nilsen-Nygaard)
26/8/2008 Vancouver, Canada 26th Annual Conference of the International Systems Safety Society Understanding Failures in International Safety-Critical Infrastructures: A Comparison of the Causes of Major Blackouts in Europe and North America
24/5/2008 Salford University, VIVACity2020 Group Meeting on VR and Game Playing to Increase Public Resillience to Civil Contingencies Virtual Reality and Simulation for Counter Terrorism Applications
12/5/2008 British Computer Society Formal Aspects of Computing SIG and UK Safety Critical Systems Club Joint Meeting Public Safety, Counter Terrorism and the Mathematics of Proof
28/1/2008 British Computer Society Aberdeen Meeting Software Failures in Space Missions
16/1/2008 Renfrew Rotary Club, Glasgow. Civil Protection after the Cold War: Terrorism, Pandemics and Fires -
7/11/2007 Departmental Seminar, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Glasgow, UK. A Brief Overview of Failure in Space Missions -
26/10/2007 Cakes Talk, Dept of Computing Science, Univ. of Glasgow, UK. 48 Days later: What Would Really Happen to Critical Infrastructures in a Pandemic? -
23/10/2007 2nd IET Systems Safety Conference, London UK. Danger of Failure Masking in Fault Tolerant Software: Aspects of a Recent in Flight Upset Event -
23/10/2007 2nd IET Systems Safety Conference, London UK. The Systemic Effects of Military Fatigue -
18/10/2007 GIST, Dept of Computing Science, Univ. of Glasgow, UK. An Overview of Human Factors and Military Fatigue -
28/9/2007 EUROCONTROL, Contingency Task Force in Air Traffic Management, Leuven, Belgium. Best Practice Guidance Material for Contingency Planning in ATM -
18/9/2007 Namahn, Brussels, Belgium. Degraded Modes of Operation as Causes in Rail and Air Accidents -
16/8/2007 25th International Systems Safety Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA. The Paradoxes of Military Risk Assessment: Will the Enterprise Risk Assessment Model, Composite Risk Management and Associated Techniques Provide the Predicted Benefits for the US Military -
15/8/2007 25th International Systems Safety Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA. Degraded Modes of Operation in Accidents in the US, UK and Australian Railways: Some Ideas about Why Accidents Happen in Complex Systems -
25/6/2007 UK Safety-Critical Systems Club, Workshop on Contingency Management and Longer Term Perspectives on Risk Management, Edinburgh, UK, The Role of Degraded Modes in Three Rail Accidents in North America, Europe and Australia -
22/6/2007 50th Anniversary Talk, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Outsourcing on Mars: What Will Software Procurement for Space Missions be Like in 50 Years Time? -
19/6/2007 Corso di Perfezionamento Scienze Mediche, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Pisa, Italy, Confidential Incident Reporting Systems in Healthcare -
27/4/2007 GIST, University of Glasgow Degraded Modes and Coping Strategies or Some Ideas About Why Accidents Happen in Complex Systems -
26/1/2007 Cakes Talk, Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow The Role of Computing Science in Contingency Analysis -
11/1/2007 Eastwood Rotary Club, Glasgow. Using Insights from Previous Evacuations to Help You Survive Major Incidents -
24/11/2006 Center for Hazard and Risk Management (CHaRM), University of Loughborough Accident Analysis and the Evacuation of Large Healthcare Institutions -
26/10/2006 University of York, Department of Computing Science The Computational Modelling of Large Scale Evacuations -
21/9/2006 HCI in Aerospace, Seattle, USA Understanding the Interaction Between Safety Management and the 'Can Do' Attitude in Air Traffic Management -
15/9/2006 Working on Safety, De Eemhof, Netherlands Ten Contentions of Corporate Manslaughter Legislation -
14/9/2006 Working on Safety, De Eemhof, Netherlands An Overview of Threats to the Security of the Olympic Games -
25/8/2006 National Research Labs, Risoe, Denmark Is Human Error a Major Cause of Accidents and Incidents? -
25/8/2006 National Research Labs, Risoe, Denmark Can We Learn Anything by Simulating Human Behaviour During Evacuations from Public Buildings? -
27/7/2006 University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering/EDC Computer Simulations of Mass Evacuations Following Infrastructure Failures -
15/5/2006 University of Glasgow, Faculty of Science From 9/11 to 2012: Computer Simulations of Evacuations from large Public Buildings -
31/1/2006 University of Paderborn, Germany Computer-Related Security Incidents in Currency Futures Trading -
27/8/2005 Workshop on Safeguarding National Infrastructures Modelling the Root Causes of Security Violations in Major Infrastructure Systems -
27/8/2005 Workshop on Safeguarding National Infrastructures Modelling the Root Causes of Security Violations in Major Infrastructure Systems -
2/6/2005 GIST, University of Glasgow Understanding Interaction in the Context of Major Aviation Accidents: The Linate Runway Incursion and the Ueberlingen Mid-Air Collision -
25/4/2005 Glasgow School of Art, Design Group Evacuation Simulations and the Attack on the World Trade Center -
11/3/2005 Workshop on Complexity in Design and Engineering Using Accident Analysis to Identify Design Requirements for Building Evacuation -
11/3/2005 Workshop on Complexity in Design and Engineering Using Violations and Vulnerability Analysis to Identify Root Cases of Security Incidents -
4/3/2005 Cakes Talk, Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow Computer-Based Evacuation Simulations and the 9/11 Attacks -
2/2/2005 HCI Group, University of York Lessons Learned from the Evacuation of the World Trade Center -
23/11/2004 Loughborough University Programme in Healthcare Risk Management Interactions between Managerial Decision Making, Safety Culture, Device Design and Operational Practices in Healthcare Safety -


Awards

Date Award Organisation Info
9/8/16 Best Paper 34th International Systems Safety Conference, Orlando, FL, USA. Forensic Attack Analysis and the Cyber-Security of Safety-Critical Systems, with Rob Harkness and Maria Evangelopoulou
21/10/2015 Contribution, Commitment and Excellence Award Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 10 Years as Technical Co-Chair for the International System Safety and CyberSecurity Conference with Paul Casely (DSTL)
8/8/2014 Best Paper International Systems Safety Conference Practical Insights for the Exchange of Lessons Learned in Accident and Incident Investigation
2010 Scientific Achievement Award International Systems Safety Society, 2010 Outstanding Development of System Safety Engineering Methods
2009 Best Paper International Systems Safety Society Conference, Huntsville 2009 C.W. Johnson and L. Nilsen-Nygaard, A 'Systemic Approach' for Countering the Threat to Public Safety from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
2008 Best Paper International Systems Safety Society Conference, Vancouver 2008 C.W. Johnson, Understanding Failures in International Infrastructures: A Comparison of Major Blackouts in North America and Europe
2005 Nominated for Best Paper Award ACM CHI Conference C.W. Johnson, Lessons of 11th Septermber 2001 for the Design of Evacuation Simulations
2003 Best Paper International Systems Safety Society C.W. Johnson, Hazards of Telemedicine
2002 Best Paper Human Decision Making and Control R. Randell and C.W. Johnson, User Adaptation of Medical Devices
2000 Best Paper Safecomp 2000 C.W. Johnson, Forensic Software Engineering
2000 Best Paper Safecomp 2000 C.W. Johnson, Software Tools for Incident Reporting


Old News Items

2019:
Panellist on the
Naked Scientist, part of the Edinburgh Science Festival to be broadcast in May.
Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt visits my lab to speak on Deterrence in Cyber Age, BBC coverage, Guardian, Telegraph etc.
Appeared at UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology Cybersecurity policy and the digital economy.
Summary of wider Strategic and Policy Work .
Keynote speaker at United Nations/ICAO 4th International Accident Investigators Forum, Singapore.
Two invited talks on the NIS Directive and on Socio-Technical factors in the Cyber Security of Safey Critical Systems at the NCSC CyberUK, Glasgow,

2018:
Keynote at the AIAA IEEE 37th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC).
International Keynote for the US Systems Safety Society.
Invited Keynote at Royal Aeronautical Society Exploitation of Electronic Data in Airworthiness and Maintenance
Keynote at Reykyavik Flight Safety Forum.
Keynote on Safety Critical Cybersecurity at 20th International Information Security Conference, ISMS, Spain.
Invited talk on Cyber Security at 2018 Singapore Air Show.
Opening keynote for Munich Airport's new Information Security Hub Offence in Aviation Cyber Security.
Panel chair for joint Dutch (NWO) - US (Dept of Homeland Security) research programme on cybersecurity.
Member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team (SAT)
Technical lead with Matt Shreeve on Department of Transport review of data inter-dependencies in UK aviation.
Working on the cyber-security of UK civil nuclear reactor programme with EDF and the CINIF industry body.
Keynote for the UK Safety-Critical Systems Symposium with Martin Sablotny.
Member of the UK British Standards Institute PAS Group on Cybersecurity for Automotive Systems.
Steering Group member of the UK Govt National Cyber Security Centre Industrial Control System CoI.

2013:
Working on the reliability, safety and security of the EU EATS project supporting the European Train Control System (ETCS).
Co-chairing IFIP 13.5 Workshop on Human Factors in the Safety and Security of Critical Systems
Giving 50th Anniversary Address at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Institut fur Arbeitswissenschaft, June 2013.
Working on cyber-security incident reporting techniques for Cloud architectures on behalf of European Network and Information Security Agency.

2012: I designed an architecture for reporting cyber-security incidents under article 13a across member states by ENISA

2011: I joined the IAASS Suborbital Safety Committee, looking amongst other things at mishap reporting requirements for commercial space flight.

2010: Scientific Research and Development Award from International Systems Safety Society.

Evaluation panel for Home Office's INnovative Science and Technology in Counter Terrorism (INSTINCT) programme part of CONTEST.

Commissioned to provide European Railways Agency with guidelines on 'best practices' in accident and incident reporting across member states.


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