Time

Programme

Speakers

13.30

Welcome and Introduction

13.40

Responding to attacks

What happens when it happens to you.
From initial reactions and containment response through to dealing with communications, restoration and post-incident review, hear from a specialist business service provider who recently experienced an attempted data hack. A frank discussion of what it’s like to be on the front line in handling a cyber attack.

A COO

Business services provider for academic publishers

14.05

How good data management fosters a secure research
environment

There is a recognition that the Data Management Plan (DMP) can form a crucial “single point of truth” and hold essential information relating to a research project’s data including:

• why it is being generated;
• how it is being analysed or worked with; and
• where research data is stored throughout the lifecycle.

Helping researchers and administrators to create good-quality DMPs and ensure they are regularly consulted and updated to reflect the above will be a key part of how we build an ever more secure environment for our researchers and their data. This session will discuss the project to deliver a new platform which supports these aims.

14.30

Break

14.40

Everyone’s Problem: Cross-sectoral responses to content challenges and bans

While book bans and content challenges may have a more visible, dramatic impact on libraries, vendors and publishers also need to confront the implications these restrictions and bans might have on their operations. User data retention policies, publishing practices, and system features tied to content curation are just a few areas where library, vendor, and publisher concerns might coalesce in response to content challenges. This session will consider cross-sectoral implications and strategies that could help us all pursue our shared commitment to information access and knowledge dissemination

15.05

Cybersecurity in Higher Education – Protecting Users with Decentralised Digital Identities

Higher Education has become ever more complex with the expansion of global supply chains with numerous connected organizations, technological advancements, the recent demands of educational hybrid learning, and the growing importance attached to individuals’ data and its security. In many ways, the pandemic has accelerated the acceptance of remote learning and faster technological advancements. Still, in other ways, it has exposed areas of weakness concerning data security/privacy in education and its supply chains. Besides education entities taking up more traditional and resilient security measures/frameworks, there can also be an approach to deploy innovative technologies such as blockchain or decentralized networks and utilize decentralized digital identities (DID).

In the education sector, digital identities can be used for various purposes such as verifying academic qualifications, authenticating students and staff, and managing educational resources. It could also create a secure, decentralized system for storing and sharing academic research. This would make it easier for researchers to find and access the data they need and would help to prevent fraud.

15.30

Break

15.40

The Academy is in Play, And It Is Not a Game

Librarianship is under attack in the United States. The ongoing clashes involving schools and public libraries making headlines are campaigns against core institutions in American society. Efforts are underway to vilify another core institution—the Academy. By understanding what libraries and academic institutions are facing in the U.S., academic librarians and industry professionals can better inform their leadership, colleagues, and researchers about what may be in their future. Library professionals understand the importance of information access and have access to important information—expertise that could alter the narrative about libraries and the Academy and blunt the spread of these attacks

16.30

Wrap up and close