ICT Strategy and Planning Manager, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade -MFAT. Wellington, New Zealand.

“Sorting the wheat from the chaff: Using SABSA to prioritise cybersecurity countermeasures for HPC“

Abstract

Prime facie, the SABSA (Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture) method should be useful to address the issues (including identifying asset values, system threats, control measures, investment rationale, and recommendations to decision-makers) discussed in NIST SP 800-223 “High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security: Architecture, Threat Analysis, and Security Posture.”

This presentation outlines how SABSA, an industry developed and practised information security planning method, can be used to inform optimal selection of controls to address the most important cybersecurity risks in HPC environments.

Bio

ICT Strategy and Planning Manager – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), New Zealand Government.

Professional engineer, Chartered in the UK (CEng).
European Ingénieur (Eur Ing).
Specialised in:

Informatics, i.e. digital systems designed to address business needs
Digital systems’ risk management, including cyber risk management, and
Governance of digital systems
MBA, University of Otago
ME (Electrical Engineering), University of Canterbury
BE (Honours)(Electrical Engineering), University of Canterbury

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Duncan is a returning speaker. Please refer to his 2023 talk “COVID-19 and COTS@exascale: correlations, causation – or coincidence?” and watch his interview.