Title: Protecting the Human Endpoint

Cyber security continues to benefit from improvements in the technologies that protect our devices and the communications between them. However, cyber security demands holistic solutions, and technological advancements do not remove the need to support the key component sitting at the endpoint – namely the human user. People are frequently blamed for cyber security breaches and stereotyped as the weakest link. However, links can be expected to be weak if little or nothing has been done to strengthen them. This presentation examines the cyber security awareness and literacy support that ought to be provided to users, and the extent to which these are typically addressed in practice. Recognising that many users will often perceive cyber security to be unrelatable or inaccessible, the talk also discusses ways to increase user interest and engagement through gamification of basic cyber awareness concepts.

Thus, the concept of connected and translational health has started evolving steadily, connecting pervasive health systems, using new predictive models, new approaches in biological systems modeling and simulation, as well as fusing data and information from different pipelines for more efficient diagnosis and disease management.

In this talk, we will present the current state-of-the-art in personalized health care by presenting cases from COVID-19 and COPD patients using advanced wearable vests and new technology sensors including lung sound and EIT, new outcome prediction models in COVID-19 ICU patients fusing X-Rays, lung sounds, and ICU parameters transformed via AI/ML/DL pipelines, new approaches fusing environmental stressors with -omics analytics for chronic disease management, and finally new ML/AI-driven methodologies for predicting mental health diseases including suicidality, anxiety, and depression.