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Secure Systems Demo Day 2026

Welcome to the Secure Systems Demo Day 2026!

The Secure Systems Demo Day is organized by the security research groups at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in collaboration with the Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC) to showcase our current research in information security and to seek valuable inputs from external visitors. The event brings together local academia, students, and industry and gives an overview of on-going information security research in Finland’s capital area. Over the past decade, the event has become an essential annual meeting point for security experts to reconnect with peers and meet new graduates entering the cybersecurity field.

Special for 2026:

  • We celebrate HAIC’s 10th anniversary and VTT’s joining HAIC.
  • This year’s Demo Day is organized in conjunction with the NordSecMob & SECCLO Alumni event—we look forward to welcoming many former students and celebrating wonderful reunions.
  • We are organizing a research seminar that will be run in parallel with the poster session.

Additionally, the Demo Day offers an excellent platform for students and researchers to explore job opportunities within the local information security industry and academia. Typically, 8-10 companies participate in our event, each hosting a company desk to promote internships and thesis positions. If you are interested in hosting a company desk, please contact our coordinator Niina Idänheimo for more details.

Secure Systems Demo Day is a public, free event. However, please register to receive a calendar invitation and the event updates.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Date: 5.6.2026

Time: 14:00-18:00

Location: Business School Building, 1st floor, Aalto University campus. Street address: Ekonominaukio 1, Espoo.

Registration: https://link.webropol.com/ep/SSG-demo-day-2026

Contact for more information: Niina Idänheimo (niina.idanheimo@aalto.fi)

Program (TBC):

13:30-14:00          Registration desk open

14:00-15:20          Research talks, auditorium (V001, V002)

  • Lachlan Gunn, Aalto University: Research highlights from Aalto and University of Helsinki
  • Erik Hieta-aho, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland: Cybersecurity Research at VTT technical research centre of Finland
  • Alejando Cabrera Aldaya, Tampere University: Side-channel leaks in open-source libraries 

15:20-15:45          Coffee break, Kylteri Cafe + lobby area

15:30-18:00         Poster session & company desks, lobby area

  • 17:45-18:00 Presentation of an award for the best posters and demos according to public vote

15:45-17:15         Research seminar, auditorium (V001-V002)

  • 15:45-16:15 Sebastian Szyller, Aalto University: Footguns in Membership Risk Estimation
  • 16:45-17:15 Russell W. F. Lai, Aalto University: Post-quantum verifiable computation: Where the lattice SNARKs journey leads

18:00 Event ends

Presentations at the poster session:

AI Security:

  • Muzaffer Ege Alper (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Backdoor poison testing via Gradient Unrolled Data Attribution (poster)
  • Dinusha Dissanayaka, Markus Miettinen (University of Jyväskylä): Threats and challenges of agentic AI security (poster)
  • Eeli Mäkinen, Markus Miettinen (University of Jyväskylä): Social engineering of AI agents (poster)

Cloud security:

  • Metehan Koç, Jose Martin Navarro, Tuomas Aura (Aalto University): Network Policy Verification in Kubernetes (poster)
  • Jose Luis Martin Navarro (Aalto University, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)), Jacopo Bufalino (Aalto University, CNAM (France)), Agathe Blaise (Thales SIX GTS (France)): Intent based network isolation in Kubernetes (poster) Runner-up for the best Poster Award!

Cryptography:

  • Gizem Akman, Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki): Privacy-friendly fair meeting point agreement (poster)
  • Sanish Gurung, Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki): Postquantum key exchange (poster)
  • Aleksi Kalsta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Challenges in Eliminating Interaction from Proof Systems (poster)
  • Russell W. F. Lai and Chris Brzuska (Aalto University): Aalto Gryptography Group (poster)
  • Michał Osadnik, Russell W. F. Lai (Aalto University): Lattice-based SNARKs: journey across milliseconds, kilobytes and asymptotics (poster)
  • Amirhosein Rajabi (Aalto University), Chris Brzuska (Aalto University), Christoph Egger (Chalmers University of Technology) and Jan Winkelmann (independent researcher): Formal verification of large-scale cryptographic (game-hopping) proofs (demo)
  • Markus Rautell (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): The PQC Transition and Beyond:
    Gap Between Concept and Reality     (poster)
  • Ivy K. Y. Woo, Russell W. F. Lai (Aalto University): Look Ahead! Practical CCA-secure Steganography: Cover-Source Switching meets Lattice Gaussian Sampling (poster)

Cybersecurity education:

  • Eva-Maria Asplund, Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki): Design of Cybersecurity Curricula using fine-tuned LLMs (poster)

IoT Security:

  • Taina Ahola, Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University): A Two-Stage LLM System for Automated Compliance Checking (poster)
  • Lija Bista, Axel Beer, Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University): Risk based security requirement analysis methodology for Cyber-Physical System (poster)
  • Negin Hamian, Markus Miettinen (University of Jyväskylä): Resilience against contextual attacks in intelligent edge IoT systems (poster)
  • Radu Pogonariu, Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University): Cyber Threats on Electric Vehicle Charging Systems (poster)
  • Tori Simon, Kimmo Hämynen, Letizia Jaccheri, Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University): EdgeAI Applications for STATCOM Devices (poster)

Mobile security:

  • Amy Sidibé, Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki): Fake base station tracking (poster)

Network security:

  • Alexander Colb, Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University): Mapping the Attack Surface Hidden in Unauthenticated JavaScript: an Analysis of Finland’s Critical Infrastructure (poster)
  • Oula Kivalo, Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University): Cross-language fuzzing framework for JSON parsers (poster, demo)
  • Yasintha Rumesh (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Ege Alper (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Pawani Porambage (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, University of Oulu, Finland), Samuel Marchal (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), and Sumudu Samarakoon (University of Oulu, Finland): Early Detection of Signaling Storms in RAN (poster)

Platform security:

  • Dalia Elnagar (Huawei, Aalto University), Sampo Sovio (Huawei), Jan-Erik Ekberg (Huawei): Explainable Anomaly Detection in System Call Sequences (poster, demo) Winner of the Best Poster Award and the Best Demo Award!
  • Pedro Guerra Lourenco (Huawei, Aalto University), Sampo Sovio (Huawei), Jan-Erik Ekberg (Huawei): Bridging the sanitization gap: KMSAN for user-mode Linux atop an ARM-based microkernel (poster)
  • Markku Kylänpää (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Quantum Computing Threat Landscape (poster)
  • Huy Ngo, Philip Ginzboorg, Lachlan J. Gunn (Aalto University): Corndog: Confirming Migration with Fair Exchange (poster)
  • Quang Huy Nguyen, Huy Ngo and Lachlan J. Gunn (Aalto University): Isolating high-performance ML workloads with WebAssembly (poster, demo)
  • Henrik Niskanen, Huy Ngo and Lachlan J. Gunn (Aalto University): Beyond the Pod: Attested Kubernetes deployment of systems of Confidential Containers (poster, demo)
  • Kha Luan Pham, Parsa Sadri Sinaki and Lachlan J. Gunn (Aalto University): Secure, attested communication for serverless WebAssembly applications (poster, demo)
  • Leo Sambrook (Huawei, Epita), Sampo Sovio (Huawei), Jan-Erik Ekberg (Huawei): Hardware Keystores for AI Agent Signing Workflows (poster, demo)
  • Muhammed Usama Sardar (TU Dresden), Mariam Moustafa (Aalto University), Tuomas Aura (Aalto University): Identity Crisis in Confidential Computing: Formal Analysis of Attested TLS (poster)
  • Parsa Sadri Sinaki (Aalto University), Zainab Ahmad (Ericsson Research, Aalto University), Wentao Xie (Ericsson Research, Aalto University), Merlijn Sebrechts (Ghent University, imec), Jimmy Kjällman (Ericsson Research), and Lachlan J. Gunn (Aalto University): TrustMee: Self-Verifying Remote Attestation Evidence (poster, demo)
  • Thao Vo (Huawei, Aalto University), Sampo Sovio (Huawei), Jan-Erik Ekberg (Huawei): AI-assisted sandboxing container policy generation (poster, demo)
  • Yixuan Yang (Huawei, Aalto University), Sampo Sovio (Huawei), Jan-Erik Ekberg (Huawei): Leveraging ARM TBI for Next-Generation Kernel Sanitization (poster)

Trustworthy Machine Learning:

  • Lin Zhu, Huy Quoc Trinh, Sebastian Szyller (Aalto University): Disentangling In-Context and In-Weight Learning for Contributive Attribution (poster)

Usable security and privacy:

  • Verena Distler’s research group (Aalto University): Humans, Security and Privacy (poster)
  • M. Koistinen, S. Zuo, D. Mensah, E. Rhen, J. Taussi, M. Tiainen, N. Nevalainen, S. Tuominen, S. Sigg (Aalto University): Tolerance for Errors in Authentication of Pervasive Services (poster)
  • Raphael Weidhaas, Verena Distler (Aalto University): Emotions and appraisals influence whether users click a link in a phishing email (poster)

Attending companies and organizations:

History of Secure Systems Demo Days:

If you are interested in the programs and presentations of the previous Demo Days, follow this link: https://ssg.aalto.fi/research/ssg-demo-days/.

If you want to know more about the history of these events, you might find the following blog post interesting: In a decade, the Secure Systems Demo Day has become a “must” for security experts.

People presenting research posters at the poster session.

Last year’s event featured 30+ posters & demos at the poster session. Photo by Niina Idänheimo.