Protecting Critical Infrastructure with Resilient Timing & Synchronization
Please join this GPSGlobal Positioning System is a navigation satellite system. See also World Webinar to learn more about how resilient timing and synchronization technology can help protect critical infrastructure from security breaches such as GPS/GNSS signal jamming and spoofing, as well as Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNTPosition, Navigation, and Timing: PNT and map data combine to create the GPS service.) data corruption. These threats are increasing worldwide, and have now been raised to the level of a national priority in the United States with a federal Executive Order to protect critical infrastructure.
Speakers include:
Dr. Leon Lobo, Head of the National Timing Centre, National Physical LaboratoryFocussed on developing and delivering a national timing strategy, Dr Leon Lobo is Head of the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Measurement Institute. The National Timing Centre programme will be developing capability toward a national resiliency in timing for our expanding digital infrastructure, stimulating the development of an assured supply chain and addressing the skills gap for time and frequency technologies and dissemination solutions. www.npl.co.uk/ntc Dr Lobo joined NPL in 2011 as Group Leader for the Time & Frequency group, working with the team managing the UK’s time scale and developing quantum frequency standards. He led the team developing NPLTime®, NPL’s certified fibre-delivered time dissemination solution to the City of London for high frequency trading systems and regulatory compliance.
Karen O’Donoghue, Director, Internet Trust and Technology, Internet SocietyKaren O’Donoghue is the Director, Internet Trust and Technology for the Internet Society, a global organization dedicated to an open, global, secure and trustworthy Internet for everyone. In this role, she supports the development, deployment, and operation of technologies, standards, and best practices to improve the overall trustworthiness of the global Internet. Karen’s focus areas include technical trust models, digital identity systems, and the application of commercial network standards and technologies to realtime systems. In particular, Karen is currently focused on time synchronization and the security of network time synchronization protocols. Karen has a long history of participation in the IETF, IEEE, and other standards bodies, as well as working in small multi-vendor teams to build technology demonstrations.
John Fischer, Vice President, Advanced R&D, OroliaFor more than 15 years, Fischer has been part of Orolia where he works with global navigation satellite systems, wireless, positioning navigation and timing, as well as specialized systems for its customers. Prior to joining Orolia, he specialized in wireless telecom as a founding member of two startups: Aria Wireless in 1990 and Clearwire Technologies in 1997. At Clearwire, he served as chief technology officer in creating wireless broadband equipment for internet connectivity. Early in his career, Fischer worked as a systems engineer in radar, EW, and command and control systems at Sierra Research and Comptek Research. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computing engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.