'Forum Safety & Security 2019'
The two sides of security
A total of 228 participants, speakers and exhibitors came together from July 8 to 10 in the Sindelfingen Stadthalle for an intensive exchange of information on the two sides of the "security coin" - as part of the 'Forum Safety & Security 2019'.
WEKA Fachmedien's 'Safety & Security Forum' took place for the second time in 2019 in the Sindelfingen town hall.
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In the overarching keynote speech, Dr. Josef Haid, Lead Principal Embedded Security Solutions at Infineon Technologies, gave an outlook on the years 2025+.
© Electronics automotiveThe three-day conference event with accompanying trade exhibition organized by WEKA Fachmedien offered a broad overview of the large field of functional security in interaction with data security. After a one-day introductory seminar by Prof. Dr. Peter Fromm, the conference continued with two days of plenary sessions and an exhibition - divided into four sessions:
- Automotive
- Methods & Tools
- Industrial automation
- Medical electronics
In the overarching keynote speech, Dr. Josef Haid, Lead Principal Embedded Security Solutions at Infineon Technologies, answered the question: What does security have to achieve in human-machine collaboration? While robots are often locked in cages today, there are no longer any barriers in human-machine collaboration. Many environmental sensors are required and there is no stopping when people are nearby. Movements therefore have to be slower. Haid presented a technology kit for the machines of the future, with elements such as predictive maintenance, virtual safety fences and safe motion control. This also includes a secure cloud-based system, the basic architecture of which Haid explained in detail. To prevent hackers from taking over such a system, Haid advocates the use of hardware-based security with security controllers. At the same time, he emphasized that the long runtime of embedded systems must be taken into account when selecting encryption algorithms and that these must also be secure against the use of quantum computers. Haid currently considers the AES-256, SHA512 and SHA3-512 methods to be secure with regard to quantum computing.
Next year's 'Forum Safety & Security' is expected to take place on July 15/16, 2020.
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