Abstract

With the growing complexity of the IT hardware and software stack, with the prelevant usage of central computing resources for Internet-facing services, user services but also serving industrial control systems (OT), the design of data centre architectures and in particular networks becoming more and more challenging. This presentation will introduce the dilemma of creating a highly agile and flexible computer center set-up while still trying to maintain security perimeters within. It is bound to fail.

Bio

Stefan Lüders, PhD, graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and joined the European Organization for Particle Physics (CERN) in 2002. Since 2009, he is heading the CERN Computer Security Incident Response Team as CERN’s Computer Security Officer with the mandate to coordinate all aspects of CERN’s computer security – office computing security, computer centre security, GRID computing security and control system security – whilst taking into account CERN’s operational needs. Dr. Lüders has presented on computer security and control system cyber-security topics at many different occasions to international bodies, governments, and companies, and published several articles.