Over the last two years the Hipster Team has been involved in numerous events and engagement initiatives to introduce our research to the developer community.
From conferences and workshops, to events and outreach, here you can find out about what we have been doing to get the Hipster message out to the developer community and beyond.
We had the opportunity to showcase our Hipster workshop at the PETRAS Living Securely in the Internet of Things event. This gave attendees the chance to engage with the cutting-edge research being done by PETRAS funded projects, including the Hipster workshops we have developed over the last 2 years. We gave interactive demos of our approach to event attendees during an exciting research exhibition.
We delivered a workshop at Agile Manchester 2023. Ruthless Planning for Security and Privacy in Software Development gave attendees the chance to get hands-on with the Hipster approach to risk assessment.
We held our first Hipster Project event at the iconic Lancaster Castle. This event involved talks on risk and product development from a range of academic and industry perspectives. Attendees were then invited to join an interactive workshop taster session where we introduced the approach we have developed for assessing risks in product development.
We presented an academic poster at the Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security Conference 2022. Our poster explored findings from our initial survey of product owners and software developers working on health-related digital products.
Charles gave a presentation of the Hipster Project to the PETRAS community and the Securing the Futures event. We heard from many of the other PETRAS funded projects and had the change to network and exchange ideas with fellow researchers.
Take a look at some of our Hipster Activities over the last 18 months
Lancaster Castle played host to our inaugural Hipster Project event, "New Adventures in Health Tech Product Development". Castles symbolise protection and safety, so this was the perfect location to showcase our research which strives to help developers and product owners better secure their products and safeguard their users in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Attendees came together for a dynamic workshop taster session. They had the chance to actively trial our cutting-edge approach to threat and risk assessment, and it was fantastic to see them getting stuck into the process we have designed. Our approach is hands-on and interactive to get everyone involved in discussion and exploration around threat and risk.
The Greater Manchester Digital Security Hub (DiSH) is a fantastic initiative bringing together experts from academia and the public and private sectors to help digital security startups in Greater Manchester. Lancaster University is the lead academic partner in the consortium that operates DiSH. With it's central mission being to help digital startups to innovate and thrive, this was a very fitting location to host another of our Hipster workshops.
One of the most valuable elements of the Hipster approach is the discussion the process facilitates. Whether a student, product owner, or software developer, everyone's perspective brings something new and valuable to the table.
We loved the DiSH so much that we went back to host our next event there, New Adventures in Agile Development. Building on the successes of our first event at Lancaster Castle, we wanted to get the Hipster message out even further into the developer community. We had a series of expert speakers sharing their insights on risk, cyber threat intelligence, and the importance of ensuring digital devices keep their users safe. Attendees then took part in our interactive workshop to learn the Hipster approach to improving security decision-making!
Saskia Coplans gave a fantastic talk and told us about her experiences of outsourcing development for a healthcare app. She shared a fascinating experiment she conducted to test just how insecure the results could be! Saskia also gave us some top advice on how to manage outsourcing and boost security to ensure you don't make apps that can harm people.
We had the pleasure of leading a workshop at the Agile Manchester conference. Designed with agile developers in mind, this was the perfect conference for the Hipster Team to showcase the leading-edge research we have been doing.
Our 90 minute session gave attendees the opportunity to try out the Hipster approach to risk and threat assessment in a collaborative environment. Each group had their own unique dynamic, bringing lots of ideas and perspectives to the table.
Professor Dan Prince leads our first Cyber Threat and Risk Developer Training Day. Throughout the day, participants were equipped with essential knowledge and methods in cyber threat and risk assessment. Interactive exercises, complemented by predefined examples, enabled us to delve into the world of technical and business risk exploration. This approach fostered a creative exploration of both dimensions, resulting in a deeper understanding of potential risks and their implications.
The Cyber Threat and Risk Developer Training package builds on two years of Hipster Project research. Delivered in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs and Plexal, the course is designed to help developers navigate the landscape of security threats and risks; empowering them to consider the causal chain of impact when assessing risk - from threat actor, to customer, to their own businesses. Here we have our inaugural cohort at DiSH Manchester in June!
