2026 INTERSCT. Conference

With the Internet-of-Things (IoT) we are seamlessly connecting the cyber and the physical worlds extending the risk area to safety requiring a broader perspective on security. IoT is turning out to be one of the weakest spots in our infrastructure. With billions and in the near future potentially trillions of devices, the security risks are growing at great rates. Our economic and societal forces are creating a perfect storm, a pervasive infrastructure of trillions of IoT devices which on one hand will oversee our lives and economy, and on the other hand will be completely unmanageable from a security perspective.

To compound the risk, IoT systems are often devised and engineered in places where we have no control on, and unless we want to basically surrender our digital sovereignty by only relying on foreign solutions for our national cyber security, we need to find a way to secure them regardless of provenance and built-in malicious intents.

We cannot secure something we cannot manage, we need to rethink the security paradigm, delegating part of the security management to the system that needs to autonomously adapt to the changing environment, while remaining under our supervision, and rethink accordingly all our security technologies. We need to be able to design, develop and manufacture IoT systems-of-systems in a fundamentally different way enabling the overall system to become robust, resilient and trustworthy, even in the presence of individual IoT devices that are insecure or even compromised in a Zero-trust environment and providing the right ecosystem for their wide adoption within industry. We actually need to be able to design, develop and manufacture new types of IoT devices with security-by-design, security-by-default, robustness and resilience in mind; while continuously preserving all safety requirements, these devices must pro-actively manage their security, actively respond to attacks, recover from attacks, resume and restore themselves to a predefined level of operation following an attack etc.,

During #INTERSCT26, the 2026 INTERSCT. Conference on cyber security of Internet-of-Things, on 24 June 2026 at Eindhoven University of Technology, we will address many of these issues with an impressive line-up of invited speakers, panelists, and moderators. There will be keynote addresses, two series of parallel sessions related to the various work packages in the NWO NWA INTERSECT project (Design, Defense, Attack, and Governance), a series of plenary sessions related to the state-of-the-art in cyber security of Internet-of-Things, as well as a networking lunch and a networking reception at the end of the event.

Info: Welcome by prof. dr. Sandro Etalle

Info: In two rooms, we will have the sessions on WP2 respectively WP4.

Info: In two rooms we will have the sessions on WP3 respectively WP5.

Info: by a wide range of organisations, including NCSC, NCC-NL, NWO, Digital Holland, and Energy Innovation Holland

Info: Introduction

Info: Introduction

Info: Introduction

Info: After an introduction by Eleni Kosta/Michel van Eeten, there will be presentations by Mattis van 't Schip on "The Interdependence of Things: Digital product interdependencies and European cybersecurity law," Annebel Smit on '"Not Everything That’s Possible Has Value: The Role of Security and Privacy in the Adoption of Smart Health Technologies in Primary Care," and Pratham Ajmera & Alicja Kucharska – "Complementarity or delegation: A study of the intersection between the AI Act and the Cyber Resilience Act" followed by a discussion with the audience.

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