Security in the Clouds

Panel Chair: Dr. Mike Surridge
Dr. Mike Surridge is Research Director at IT Innovation, an applied research centre in electronics and computer science at the University of Southampton. IT Innovation is dedicated to working with business and industry to stimulate the adoption of novel IT, through research and development of proof of concept and pilot systems, analysing business models and processes for the use of such systems, and providing consultancy on technology roadmaps and due diligence. Mike has a PhD in Theoretical Physics, and over 20 years experience in applied IT research. Since the mid-1990s he has focused on Grid and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) including cloud computing, with a specific interest in dynamic security and system adaptation. He coordinated the FP5 GRIA project, was Principal Investigator of the UK Semantic Firewall project, and led the Grid Dynamics workpackage on workflow and dynamic security in the FP7 NextGRID IP. He was a co-founder of the UK e-Science Security Task Force, and is currently chair of the EC Internet of Services Trust and Security Working Group and a co-chair of the NESSI Trust, Security and Dependability working group. He is currently coordinating the FP7 ICT-SEC SERSCIS project on dynamic SOA for critical infrastructure protection, and consulting on SOAs, business models and security in commercial and research projects.

Jesús Villasante
Jesús Villasante is head of the “Trust and Security” Unit of the Information Society and Media Directorate General in the European Commission.
He has a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Madrid Polytechnic University and a Masters in Public Management from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Ecole de Commerce Solvay. He has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation where he held positions as systems engineer, project manager for manufacturing industries and software advisor for the sales and business operations. He also worked for Telefónica and for the Computers in Medicine Section of the Air Force Hospital in Madrid.
In 1986 he joined the European Commission, Information Society Directorate General. He has worked in Analysis and Preparation of Programmes and the Telematics Applications Programme. Prior to his current position he has been head of the ‘e-Business” and “Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures” Units in the Information Society Technologies Programme.

Philippe Massonet
Philippe Massonet is scientific coordinator at CETIC, a Belgian ICT applied research center. His research interest cover the areas of software, service and security engineering, as well as distributed systems such as Grids and service oriented infrastructures. He was recently coordinator of the GridTrust IST European project (Strep) dealing with trust and security in next generation grids, and is responsible for dissemination and security in the RESERVOIR IST European project (Integrated project) led by IBM research. He is currently the coordinator of the PONTE eHealth project that is looking into using semantic web technologies to build decision support systems for the design clinical trials. He is active in the NESSI ETP working groups, and the ERCIM working groups. At CETIC he also works as a consultant for industry and government in his areas of research. He has experience in the prototyping and commercial development of advanced requirements engineering tools. Previously he was manager of the requirements engineering team at CETIC. He has experience in the management of international R&D projects (Eurescom MESSAGE, IST FP6 GridTrust, and FP7 PONTE) and is or has been involved in several IST FP6/FP7 research projects (RESERVOIR, HPC4U, AssessGrid, CoreGrid, GridTrust and Oldes).

J. Peter Burgess
J. Peter Burgess is Research Professor at PRIO, the Peace Research Institute Oslo, where he leads the Security Programme and edits the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal Security Dialogue. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Brussels,and Director of the Centre for Security Studies, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. Born in Germany, he was trainedin Mechanical Engineering, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy in the U.S., Germany and France. His research and publishing has covered fields such as philosophy, political science, gender, history and cultural studies. His current research focuses on the ethical implications of the changing nature of threat and insecurity, particularly in Europe. He has been an active originator and coordinator of a number of national and international research projects, most recently the EU Framework 7 project Converging and conflicting ethical values in the internal/external security continuum in Europe (INEX).

Martine Lapierre
Martine Lapierre is a Chief Telecom Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecom, with a master of Public affairs from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees. After 10 years in network planning and software development for Orange France Telecom, she moved to Alcatel (later Alcatel-Lucent) responsible for the system engineering of Broadband products, then head of the Information Technology lab of the research center, then President of the Switching Business Unit, and Chief Technology Officer of the Carriers and later of the Mobile communications Groups. She was then in charge of the vision and Solutions at the headquarters. She moved to Thales where she is now Technical Director of the C4i for Defense and Security Division. This division provides solutions for smart and secure / resilient (defense or civilian) telecom networks, for tactical networks, for critical information systems, and for smart cities and transport security. The CTO team provides advanced studies amongst others on the security of the future Internet, on the Cloud management and trust, and on self organized management.