Panel title:  From the lab to the market: The stakeholder game - On how to eliminate the friendly fire

Panel topic: The security & privacy battlefield is getting increasingly complex. This does not only assume the front line, but also the internal forces of the security & privacy guardians. The path that leads from the research labs to the market and deployment front-line is shaped by multitude of internal forces stemming from the interests, motivations and views of myriad stakeholders. These forces are frequently directed in opposing directions, often reinforced by the lack of communication and, consequently, understanding. Some of the more influential stakeholders include: researchers, businessman and regulators.

The panel is composed of prominent members of the various groups of stakeholders that are shaping the security & privacy horizon. Our aim will be to shed some light on the above-mentioned forces from the stakeholder perspectives. Thus, we hope to make a step forward in the direction of the mutual understanding required to facilitate the advancement of the community as a whole in the era of pervasive ICT.

On the behalf of the Panel Moderator and the Panelists, I cordially invite you to contribute to the discussion on this burning topic that will follow the opening statements by the Panelists.

Boris Dragovic, Panel Chair

Peter Matthews is a Research Staff Member in CA Labs. Peter is based in the UK and coordinates research activity between the R&D laboratories and academia. He is also leading CA's work in the Service Centric Software Engineering (SeCSE) research consortium. Peter brings more than 27 years of experience with him to CA Labs, the last 13 years in various roles with CA. He joined CA as part of the acquisition of ASK/Ingres. Initially responsible for Ingres development in CA he joined the newly created research and development field operation. He worked with customers to implement and improve their data management as the European manager responsible for introducing and developing Jasmine Object Oriented database solutions to customers and CA staff. Following that Peter joined R&D as a member of the Neugent SWAT team developing and implementing solutions based on CA's neural net technologies. For the last two years Peter has worked on proposals for research to the European Union and as a technical member of the SeCSE consortium working on management, monitoring and composition of services. He has now taken over responsibility for CA's effort on this project. This project is part funded by grants from the European Union as part of FP6. He has also been involved in the EU public affairs program as part of the Office of the CTO. Trained as a teacher with Manchester University he taught for seven years before moving into computing. He is a published author on relational database technology.

Jacques Bus, born in the Netherlands in 1947, studied Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD with a thesis in Numerical Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at CWI (Amsterdam) for 15 years. In 1988 he joined the European Commission services in the Unit for Computer Integrated Manufacturing in the Esprit programme. Since then he has been responsible for programme wide operational and organisational affairs in the Esprit and IST programme and for Informatics support in DG Information Society. From June 2000 till March 2004 he was Head of the Unit Software Technologies and Distributed Systems in the IST programme, which included the coordination of activities on Open Source Software within the IST programme. Since early 2003 he has been active in the preparation of a European Security Research Programme addressing development of multidisciplinary, integrated solutions for the security of citizens. From March 2004 he has taken responsibilities for the unit ICT for Trust and Security in the IST Programme, which includes Research and technology Development for Network and Information System Security, Trustworthy Computing and DRM, Biometrics, Identity management and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection.

Andreas Schaad, PhD, CISSP works for SAP Research Germany in the Security and Trust group. Prior to joining SAP Germany he obtained his PhD at the University of York, UK followed by work for Ernst & Young, UK as an Information Systems auditor and SAP Labs France as a senior researcher. He is actively serving on several ACM and IEEE conference committees and his research interests include all aspects of organisational control. He was project lead for the FP6 IP "eJustice" and currently serves as project lead for the FP 6 IP "R4eGov" and German BMBF project "ORKA".

Nathalie Moreno is an international lawyer, with extensive experience of advising clients operating in the communications, e-commerce and information technology sectors in EMEA and globally. She advises on a variety of commercial transactions and sector specific agreements including network, supply, managed services, maintenance and software licensing, corporate transactions, French and EU competition advice, regulatory procedures and licensing for telecommunications, TV cable and satellite operators. Nathalie also advises on multi-jurisdictional projects including data protection, franchising, distribution and outsourcing as well as on employment matters related to outsourcing. She has strong expertise in advising on World Bank and EBRD legal reform and commercial projects in EMEA, Asia and Latin America and is registered as an accredited legal consultant with both organisations. Nathalie has published many articles on IT and Telecoms legal issues and regularly speaks in international conferences on such issues. She is fluent in Spanish, French, English and has a working knowledge of Russian.

Volkmar Lotz is the Research Program Manager for Security and Trust at SAP Research. His responsibilities include the definition and implementation of SAP's security research agenda, its strategic alignment to SAP's business needs, and the maintenance of a global research partner network. Before joining SAP, he was heading the "Formal Methods in Security Analysis" group at Siemens Corporate Technology, emphasizing on security requirements engineering, evaluation and certification, cryptographic protocol verification, and mobile code security. He has been the main contributor to the LKW model, a formal security model for smartcard processors. His experience includes context-aware mobile systems, legally binding agent transactions, and authorization and delegation in mobile code systems.