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[ Aiko Pras, University Twente, The Netherlands ] Title: Ubiquitous networking: get pervasively hacked Abstract: In the last decade several terms gained ubiquitous attraction amongst computer scientists and politicians. Next to the term "ubiquitous" itself, these terms include "pervasive systems", "ambient intelligence" and "the Internet of Things". Common to all these terms is the "vision of small, inexpensive, robust networked processing devices, distributed at all scales throughout everyday life" [wikipedia]. In principle all these devices will be capable to communicate with each other, which potentially implies communication between hundreds of billions of devices. Technically this will be a masterpiece; a distributed system with such high number of components has never been build before and presents a tremendous challenge for technicians. But will such ubiquitous networked system be manageable? Will it be possible to ensure such system will not be hacked and taken over by others? Can you be sure your heating system, refrigerator and lightning system will remain under your control, and not be hacked by some far-away script kiddy, or even your angry neighbor? In this keynote we will discuss some possible scenarios that management of ubiquitous networks and services may be faced with, and the architectural consequences to make pervasive communications safe. Short Bio: AIKO PRAS (a.pras@utwente.nl) is an associate professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, where he is leading the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems Group (DACS). He received a Ph.D. degree from the same university for his thesis titled "Network Management Architectures". His research interests include network management technologies, network monitoring and measurements, network security and web services. He is the research leader in the European Network of Excellence on Management of the Internet and Complex Services (EMANICS), and has participated in many European and Dutch research projects, as member, evaluator and as reviewer. He has contributed to research and standardization activities as a founding member of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Network Management Research Group (NMRG) and as RFC author. He is chairing the IFIP Working Group 6.6 on "Management of Networks and Distributed Systems", is editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine series on "Network & Service Management", associate editor of the International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), and Editorial Advisory Board member for the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). He is Steering Committee member of the IFIP/IEEE NOMS and IM Symposia (NISC), Management Week (Manweek), AIMS, E2EMon, as well as the EUNICE Consortium. He was/is (Technical Program) Co-Chair of several conferences, including DSOM'01, IM'05, EUNICE'07, TMA'09, AIMS'09 and Manweek'09.