Cyber security: Transportation systems

Chairman: Stephan Freeman
Information Security Strategy Manager, Transport for London

Stephan Freeman works at Transport for London in the Information Management department. He has a responsibility for information security across a number of areas but has a particular interest in operational information security and its impact on safety. Working closely with colleagues across Transport for London he is working on building understanding between traditional IT and engineering disciplines.

In the past, he has been Information Security Manager at the London School of Economics & Political Science, Group Information Security Architect at Transport for London and Information Security Manager for London Underground.

He is a Chartered member of the British Computer Society, member and past secretary of the ISSA UK Chapter, past secretary of the Information Security Awareness Forum and Information Security panel member of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

Stephan holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and an MSc in Information Security, both from Royal Holloway.

Tony Bull
Specialist in Cyber Security for Mission and Safety Critical Systems, Notitia Salu Ltd

Tony has 25 years experience in system development with the last 10 years specialising in Security. Tony entered security via Cryptography and he has been responsible for the security of six different Crypto products/systems during development and certification.

Tony has also spent many years as an accreditation consultant and security architect, working on a range of large systems including a national biometric ID system, a national road traffic management system, national rail system, an air traffic control system and a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) as well as a range of smaller and classified projects.

Tony is the inventor of two new patent pending security systems, one to provide a new method of authenticating remote users and the other to provide low cost high reliability geo-location service for safety critical applications. Tony recently founded Notitia Salu, a cyber systems health company, specialising in practical solutions for systems with safety or high resilience requirements.

Anthony Cross
Signalling Control and Information Asset Engineer, London Underground

Anthony Cross works for the Professional Head of Signalling within London Underground, as a Signalling Control and Information Asset Engineer. His role includes setting requirements and maintaining the security of signalling control systems, both existing and new.

For the last decade, he has worked in the metro area, mainly with London Underground but also for consultancies. Upon moving to the UK in the late ‘90s he worked mainly on Railtrack’s West Coast Route Modernisation programme, leading the requirements team for the Network Management Centre and also as Chief System Engineer in the Joint Project Team. Anthony started with State Rail Authority of NSW, in Sydney, as a cadet engineer, working as a Train Control System engineer on the Signal Renewable and Modernisation Programme upon completion of his BE (Elect.), in the early ‘90s.

Anthony completed his under graduate degree from University of Technology, Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in Systems Engineering from University of Wollongong. He is a Chartered Engineer, member of the IET, member of the IRSE and the LU representative on CPNI’s Transport Sector Information Exchange.

Dr Ireri Ibarra
Functional Safety Consultant, MIRA Ltd

Ireri holds a PhD on automotive safety-related systems from the University of Sussex and has been working in safety engineering for automotive and defence for five years. At MIRA Ireri has been involved in projects for both vehicle OEMs and suppliers.

Professor Adam Ogilvie-Smith, Robert Gordon University

Professor Adam Ogilvie-Smith  BSc MBA FIoD has worked for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), KPMG and Thales (previously Racal), and in that time was seconded to the Cabinet Office, the Home Office (Office for Security & Counter-Terrorism) and UK Trade & Investment.  Adam is a frequent speaker on national security, resilience, counter-terrorism and aviation security, and the contribution that science and technology can make to these subjects.

Adam is an honorary professor at Robert Gordon University, a member of the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 Security Advisory Group, and chair of the UK’s Aviation Security National Technical Committee. Adam holds a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, an MBA, and the IoD’s Diploma in Company Direction. He also has 18 years’ experience as a special constable (volunteer police officer), which explains the bottle scars.

Dr Richard Piggin, Cyber Security Manager, Atkins

Dr Richard Piggin is a Cyber Security Manager at Atkins. Richard has an Engineering Doctorate in Industrial Control Systems communications from the University of Warwick and has previously worked for several control system vendors in network, security and safety-related roles. He is a UK Expert to several IEC Cyber Security Working Groups involved in producing IEC 62443 covering Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security.  Richard is also a member of the IEC Working Group for safety-related use of industrial Ethernet.