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HAIC Talk: The Impact of the EU’s GDPR on Northern American Companies and Cross-Border Data Management – with Jordan Fischer
2020-02-04 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Description: In the last two years, new data protection regulations have gone into effect in a number of different regions, with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation garnering the most attention, both within Europe and in North America. For North American companies, the GDPR has heightened the data protection conversation to the executive level. Many companies in the US operated with little to no restrictions regarding data protection, but are now finding themselves brought under the GDPR requirements. Further, individual US states are moving more towards providing similar data protections as the GDPR: California being the most prominent.
This talk will focus on the role of the GDPR and EU data privacy regulations generally in driving the privacy conversation within North America. The varying regulatory requirements are converging when organizations exchange, transfer and process personal information across borders and, as such, forcing companies to take key steps to efficiently and securely implememnt data management practices.

About the speaker: Jordan Fischer focuses her research on data privacy and cybersecurity, bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her teaching. Professor Fischer explores the convergence of the law and technology, researching the practical implications of regional data protection regulations within a backdrop of the global economy. Professor Fischer applies her practical experience working with multinational companies to better understand the evolution of security and privacy within changing regulatory and legal frameworks to balance consumer and end-user rights with enterprise innovation and business efficiencies.
After receiving her JD summa cum laude from the Kline School of Law in 2013, Professor Fischer clerked at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg for Koen Lenaerts, who is now the president-judge of the court. Professor Fischer joined the Kline School of Law faculty in 2015, teaching European Union law courses.
In addition to teaching, Professor Fischer is a co-founder and managing partner at XPAN Law Group, LLC, a certified Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council and a certified Women Owned Small Business. At XPAN, she focuses her practice on international data privacy and cybersecurity and cross-border data management, with an emphasis in European Union data privacy regulations and the General Data Protection Regulation. Professor Fischer’s background in business and international data protection regulation enables her to provide critical legal guidance to balance business growth and development with data management, network assessments and best practices in cybersecurity. She also counsels clients on cross-border data management, including the complexities of discovery in international litigation.
Professor Fischer is a visiting scholar in the SECCLO programme.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo.
Time: 16:30 – 18:00 (coffee and buns served from 16:00). The lecture will be approximately 45 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Registration: HAIC Talks are open to everyone and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it helps us to estimate the number of coffee ordered, thank you.

HAIC Talk: 5th Generation Crime-fighting in Cyberspace: Lawful Intercept in 5G Networks – with Mats Näslund
2020-10-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Online event
Description: Our societies have been prospering, much due to huge technological advances over the last 100 years. Unfortunately, criminal activity has in many cases also been able to draw benefits from these advances. Communication technology, such as the Internet and mobile phones, are today “tools-of-the-trade” that are used to plan, execute, and even hide crimes such as fraud, espionage, terrorism, child abuse, to mention just a few. Almost all countries have regulated how law enforcement, in order to prevent or investigate serious crime, can sometimes get access to meta data and communication content of service providers, data which normally is protected as personal/private information. The commonly used term for this is Lawful Interception (LI). For mobile networks LI is, from a technical standpoint, carried out according to ETSI and 3GPP standards. In this talk, the focus will lie on the technical LI architecture for 5G networks. We will also give some background, describing the general, high-level legal aspects of LI, as well as some current and future technical challenges.

About the speaker: Mats Näslund has an MSc in Computer Science (1993) and a PhD in cryptography (1998), both from KTH, Stockholm. From 1999 to 2017, he worked with most aspects of network and information security, including standardization contributions in IETF and 3GPP, as part of his employment with Ericsson Research. In 2009, he was appointed Inventor of the Year at Ericsson, and is (co-)inventor of over 100 patent families. As of 2017, he works as a cryptologist at the National Defence Radio Establishment outside Stockholm, an agency under the Swedish dept. of defence. As part of his work, he represents Sweden in technical LI standardization in 3GPP. Mats also has a part time appointment as adjunct professor at KTH.

Venue: online
Time: 17:00 – 18:30. The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Registration: Registration is open.

Secure Systems Demo Day 2020
2020-10-29 15:00 - 18:30 | Online event
Secure Systems Demo Day 2020 will be held virtually on October 29!
The Secure Systems Demo Day is an annual meet-up for researchers in academia and industry and gives an overview of the current information security research going on in Finland’s capital area. Demo Day 2020 will end with a HAIC talk “Learning from the People: From Normative to Descriptive Solutions to Problems in Security, Privacy & Machine Learning” given by Elissa Redmiles.
Please find more information and the preliminary program on the event page https://ssg.aalto.fi/events/ssg-demo-day-2020/
Please register to receive Zoom meeting information and a calendar invitation!
The Secure Systems Demo Day is part of Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC) public outreach program and jointly organized by the Secure Systems Group at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, and Aalto University Department of Computer Science.
If you are interested in the programs of the previous Demo Days, you can find them here: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

Internet of Things (IoT) Security: from specification to code – HAIC Talk with Hannes Tschofenig
2021-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Online event
Lecture description: During the last 10 years security researchers and standards experts have been working on specifications to ensure that state-of-the-art cryptography can be used on low end IoT devices. Most of those standards efforts have either been completed or are in the final stages. At the same time, industry groups and governmental agencies have written IoT security guidelines offering valuable suggestions for developers to design more secure IoT products. Even IoT security regulation exists asking for state-of-the-art crypto, the use of standards, and for a ban of passwords.
What challenges do developers face designing IoT products? Can they use open source software implementations and follow IoT security guidelines? In this talk Hannes Tschofenig will make an attempt to answer this question.
About the speaker: Hannes Tschofenig is employed by Arm; prior employers include the European Data Protection Supervisor, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Siemens. His work life focused on developing global standards to make the Internet more secure. He has been active in the IETF for the past 15 years and contributed to more than 80 RFCs on security, privacy and various Internet protocols. Hannes co-chaired several IETF working groups, including OAuth, ACE, KEYPROV, DIME, and ECRIT. From 2010 to 2014 Hannes was a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), a committee of the IETF. Currently, he is a board member and chair of the Device Management and Service Enablement working group of OMA SpecWorks.
Registration: https://haic-talk-with-hannes-tschofenig.eventbrite.fi/

HAIC talk: Current State of Applied Cryptography – Attacks, Standardization, Government Requirements, and Best Practices – with John Mattsson
2022-10-31 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Speaker: John Mattsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Lecture description: Applied cryptography has been a very active area in the last 10 years since the Snowden revelations. From being used selectively, cryptography is now used everywhere for both security and privacy. To prevent pervasive monitoring, mandatory to use encryption, identity protection, and perfect forward secrecy are now seen as requirements. The increased use of crypto has put new requirements on performance, and old standards with questionable security have been replaced with new high-performance algorithms with improved side-channel protection. Current activities include aligning with zero trust principles and making systems resistant to attacks from quantum computers. This talk will explain how and why applied cryptography has evolved in recent years and how it will change with the introduction of post-quantum algorithms and key encapsulation mechanisms.
About the speaker: John is an expert in cryptographic algorithms and security protocols at Ericsson Research. His work focuses on applied cryptography, security protocols, privacy, IoT security, post-quantum cryptography, and trade compliance. During his 15 years at Ericsson, he has worked with a lot of different technology areas and been active in many security standardization organizations including IETF, IRTF, 3GPP, GSMA, and NIST where he has significantly influenced Internet and cellular security standards. In addition to designing new protocols, John has also found significant attacks on many algorithms and protocols including Polar Bear, GCM, SRTP, CoAP, and SCTP. John holds an M.Sc. in engineering physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and an M.Sc. in business administration and economics from Stockholm University.
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it helps us to estimate the number of coffee ordered, thank you.

HAIC talk: Privacy in 5G - Explained at the example of Pretty Good Phone Privacy (PGPP) – with Silke Holtmanns
2023-04-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Business School building, Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Speaker: Silke Holtmanns, PwC Finland 5G Security Team
Lecture description: 5G has learned lessons from previous generations and improved the privacy of a subscriber. Still it seems that the privacy is not perfect and there are offerings like Pretty Good Phone Privacy (PGPP) that promise an even better privacy. As a consumer, the question arises, how good is 5G privacy and what are the real privacy risks, if I take PGPP is my privacy really better and what are the potential side effects? In this talk, we will focus on location privacy, its improvements, but also the weak practical issues that come when 5G networks are deployed.
About the speaker: Silke has 23 years of telecommunication security experience. She worked for Ericsson, Nokia, AdaptiveMobile Security, ENEA and is now with the PwC Finland 5G Security Team. She holds a PhD in Mathematics and is a Certified Information System and Cloud Security Professional (CISSP and CCSP). The technology evolved and Silke is securing that path from mobile payments, WAP, 3GPP, GSMA, LTE & 5G, remote provisioning, eSIM, core network, OpenRAN, SMS, interconnection, threat analysis, to cloud & virtualization and security compliance.
Silke has discovered new attacks e.g., for slicing attacks, location and presented at Blackhat and Defcon.
Silke is a member of the EU ENISA Advisory Group to provide her expertise to secure 5G and critical infrastructure. In her position at PwC she assists vendors, cloud providers, vertical industries and operators.
Silke is deeply into cooking and Taekwondo.

Date: 27.4.2023
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 45 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: T1 auditorium, CS building, Aalto University (Konemiehentie 2, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it helps us to estimate the number of coffee ordered, thank you.

Secure Systems Demo Day 2023
2023-06-08 14:00 - 17:00 | Business School building, Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, Espoo, 02150, Finland
The Secure Systems Demo Day is an annual meet-up for researchers and students in academia and industry and gives an overview of the current information security research going on in Finland’s capital area in the fields of platform security, machine learning and privacy, network security and security engineering, 5G security and applied cryptography, and usable security.
Thursday, 8 June at 14:00-17:00 in the CS building at Aalto University
More information and the program available on the event page: https://ssg.aalto.fi/events/secure-systems-demo-day-2023/
Please register to receive the latest information and a calendar invitation: https://link.webropol.com/ep/Secure-systems-demo-day-2023
The Secure Systems Demo Day is part of Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC) public outreach program and jointly organized by the Secure Systems Groups at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The event is open to all and free of charge.

Nyberg Fest
2023-10-27 13:00 - 17:00 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Nyberg fest celebrates and honors Prof. emerita Kaisa Nyberg’s work in the field of cryptography and cybersecurity. We organize a research seminar where the speakers will be Nyberg’s former colleagues and doctoral students.
Tentative program:
Opening
Session 1:

Thomas Johansson, Lund University, Sweden: TBA
Joan Daemen, Radpoud University, Netherlands: TBA

Coffee break
Session 2:

Hadi Soleimany, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran: TBA
Mikko Kiviharju, Aalto University, Finland: TBA
N. Asokan, University of Waterloo, Canada: TBA

Closing and celebration
The event is open to all and free of charge, but we ask you to register for catering by 19.10.2023.

Secure Systems Demo Day 2024
2024-06-17 14:00 - 18:00 | Business School building, Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, Espoo, 02150, Finland
The Secure Systems Demo Day is an annual meet-up for researchers and students in academia and industry and gives an overview of the current information security research going on in Finland’s capital area in the fields of platform security, machine learning and privacy, network security and security engineering, cryptography, usable security, and security education.
Monday, 17 June at 14:00-18:00 in the CS building at Aalto University.
More information and updates on the event page: https://haic.fi/research/secure-systems-demo-day-2024/
Please register to receive the latest information and a calendar invitation: https://link.webropol.com/ep/secure-systems-demo-day-2024
The Secure Systems Demo Day is part of Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC) public outreach program and jointly organized by the Secure Systems Groups at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The event is open to all and free of charge.

HAIC Talk: Time and Place in Digital Forensic Science – with Matthew Sorell
2024-09-25 16:00 - 17:30
Lecture description: Everywhere you go, you leave your digital traces behind. Mobile and wearable devices, video, social media and pervasive sensors everywhere capture every breath you take, and every move you make.
Or so you think. In reality it’s rarely that simple.
Since 2022, my team at Digital Forensic Sciences Australia has been developing a new form of map visualisation when handling sparse time-location data. Instead of showing how a suspect can get from one place to another, we show where the suspect can reach. Our prototype is now used operationally in active missing persons investigations in Australia. The impact of our approach is profound. Whereas a conventional investigation will work outwards from the crime scene and inwards from an outer cordon, the reach map approach quickly narrows down the focus to what is possible. For the first time, defensible use can be made of negative results to exclude geographical options.
In this presentation, I’ll demonstrate the current capability of the prototype tool and show examples of the tool in practical use cases. I’ll discuss computational complexity and visualisation of real investigative problems linking locations and timelines into a coherent view of what is possible, and show the impact reach mapping can have on real-time investigation.
About the speaker: Dr Matthew Sorell joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 2002, specialising in telecommunications and multimedia engineering. In 2016 he assisted South Australian Police in a murder investigation, the first case worldwide involving an Apple Watch and Apple Health Data. Dr Sorell is currently the sole court-recognised independent expert on mobile device and network evidence in Australia.
In 2022 he founded Digital Forensic Sciences Australia, a private company providing specialist digital forensic science services in Australia and internationally. Since 2017, he has been an invited member of the INTERPOL Digital Forensics Experts Group and in 2019 was appointed Scientific Advisor to FORMOBILE, an EU-funded project concerned with mobile phones as evidence from crime scene to court room.
Dr Sorell has led cybersecurity research and education collaboration between the University of Adelaide and the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia, since 2015. He was appointed Adjunct Professor of Digital Forensic Science at TaltTech in 2018 and in 2021 was appointed Honorary Consul of Estonia in South Australia.
Time: 25.9.2024 at 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it helps us to estimate the number of coffee ordered. Please register at https://link.webropol.com/ep/HAIC-talk-with-Matthew-Sorel

HAIC talk: Learning from cybersecurity exercises — the case of Locked Shields – with Rain Ottis
2024-10-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Lecture description: The talk will first introduce cybersecurity exercises in general and the Locked Shields exercise in particular. After that Dr. Ottis will discuss the exercise-related research that has been conducted by staff and students of TalTech’s Centre for Digital Forensics and Cyber Security, in an effort to show how exercises can enable cybersecurity research.
About the speaker: Dr Rain Ottis is the Professor of Cyber Operations and the Head of the Centre for Digital Forensics and Cyber Security in Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. From 2008 to 2012 he served as a researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, where he worked on cyber security in the context of national and international security. Prior to that assignment he served as a signal officer in the Estonian Defence Forces, focusing primarily on cyber defence training and awareness. His research interests include cyber conflict, national cyber security and cyber security exercises.
Time: 29.10.2024 at 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it helps us to estimate the number of coffee ordered. Please register at https://link.webropol.com/ep/HAIC-talk-with-Rain-Ottis

HAIC talk: Artificial Evil — with Mikko Hyppönen
2025-03-31 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Lecture description: All new technical innovations come with both advantages and disadvantages; we cannot simply select the benefits without also encountering the challenges. The defense against cyber attacks is an ongoing, relentless effort. In the near future, we are likely to witness fully automated malware campaigns powered by machine learning or generative AI. Consequently, it may become evident that the only effective countermeasure to a bad AI is a good AI.
About the speaker: Mikko Hyppönen is a cyber security researcher and best-selling author. His TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times and translated into 40 languages. He has advised the Monetary Authority of Singapore and EUROPOL and has written for leading publications like The New York Times, Wired, and Scientific American. Mikko has also lectured at top universities, including Harvard, Oxford, and MIT. His latest book has been published in five languages.
Time: 31.3.2025 at 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as there are limited number of seat available.

HAIC talk with Verena Distler
2025-05-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland

Secure Systems Demo Day 2025
2025-06-16 14:00 - 18:00 | Business School building, Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Secure Systems Demo Day is organized by the Secure Systems research groups at Aalto University and University of Helsinki in collaboration with 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.
Demo day is an excellent opportunity for students and researchers to network and search for open positions within the local infosec industry and academia. If you are interested in advertising internship and/or thesis positions, please contact our coordinator Niina Idänheimo (niina.idanheimo@aalto.fi) for more information.
Secure Systems annual Demo Days are public events and free of charge.
Registration will open in March.

HAIC Talk with Riccardo Sisto
2025-10-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
On the security of eBPF Linux kernel extensions
Lecture description: eBPF is a very powerful new technology that is revolutionising the approach to system operations, such as system and network monitoring and security enforcement. Since it is based on enabling the execution of user-provided code in the kernel, the flexibility and performance advantages it provides come with a price in terms of security risk. Even though eBPF was endowed with security mechanisms designed to counter the main possible threats, such mechanisms are far from perfect and have their own vulnerabilities.
The purpose of this talk is to present the main security issues of eBPF, including attack surfaces and countermeasures, and to discuss the underlying risks and future trends. The talk is based on studies done within the Elastic EU Project.
About the speaker: Riccardo Sisto is a Full professor at the Turin Polytechnic, Italy, in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, where he leads the Netgroup, a research group focusing on the study of networking-related technologies.
Riccardo Sisto holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in System and Computer Engineering, both received from the Turin Polytechnic.
Riccardo Sisto’s current research focuses on formal methods applied to distributed systems, networks, and cybersecurity. His main contributions in the cybersecurity area refer to network security automation and security protocol verification. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. He was awarded 2 research grants from Cisco Systems, and he has been involved in several EU-funded research projects.
At the Turin Polytechnic, Riccardo Sisto is a teacher of courses on Distributed Systems Programming, Formal Languages and Compilers, and Security Verification and Testing in the Master’s Degrees in Computer Engineering and Cybersecurity.
Time: 20.10.2025 at 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it will help us to estimate the number of coffee ordered, thank you!

HAIC Talk with Heidi Kuusniemi
2025-11-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing: the Cybersecurity Frontier of Satellite Navigation — with Heidi Kuusniemi
Lecture description: Satellite navigation systems such as GPS and Galileo and the soon emerging Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based satellite navigation constellations form the invisible geospatial backbone of our digital society. The precise positioning and timing they provide underpin transportation and logistics, communications networks, energy grids, and countless other applications and services. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are, however, inherently vulnerable, since their open signals can be jammed or spoofed, turning trusted time and location data into potential attack vectors. The growing prevalence of threats has made resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) a critical cybersecurity frontier. This talk explores how cybersecurity principles intersect with satellite navigation across the signal, system and measurement layers. Real-world examples of jamming and spoofing incidents are presented alongside emerging countermeasures such as signal authentication, interference detection and mitigation, fault detection and exclusion (FDE), and multi-source multi-layer PNT architectures combining space-based, terrestrial and sensor inputs. The talk concludes with an outlook on Europe’s evolving geospatial initiatives including ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT mission and Galileo’s authentication services and how they contribute to a more secure, trusted and resilient PNT ecosystem vital for e.g. critical infrastructures and autonomous systems.
About the speaker: Heidi Kuusniemi is a Professor of Wireless Systems at Tampere University, holding a joint professorship with the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute of the National Land Survey of Finland. Her research focuses on resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems, including satellite navigation interference detection and mitigation and reliable multi-system and multi-sensor navigation. Her work bridges the domains of geospatial technology, wireless systems and cybersecurity, with the goal of ensuring trustworthy positioning and situational awareness from space to Earth. Prof. Kuusniemi has led numerous national and international research and development projects on localization resilience, sensor fusion, and the space economy. She is President of the Nordic Institute of Navigation and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and was named Professor of the Year 2025 by the Professors’ Union of Finland.
Time: 10.11.2025 at 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge but we ask you to register for the event as it will help us to estimate the number of coffee ordered, thank you!

HAIC Talk with Markus Miettinen: The Cornucopia of security research is stuffed with AI
2026-02-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Dipoli, Lumituuli, Otakaari 24, Espoo, 02150, Finland
Lecture description: The increasing public interest towards AI-based applications, especially LLM chatbots, has caused an onslaught of AI-based functionalities in various devices and systems. Many vendors hope to reap benefits from AI algorithms’ capabilities to ingest and reproduce enormous amounts of information and their ability to quickly process data based on patterns taught to them during model training. The promise of potential increased performance and the ability to provide entirely novel user experiences has caused many system designers and device vendors to wholeheartedly adopt AI as an essential component in their system and solution designs. However, while offering potential benefits, the introduction of this new technology to systems also introduces potential new attack surfaces and security vulnerabilities that have been mostly overlooked by system vendors so far. Researchers and practitioners are only beginning to study and understand what it really means from a security point of view to have data-driven AI-based reasoning and decision making as an integral part of system designs.
In this talk I will review challenges that arise with regard to security through the introduction of AI algorithms in real-world systems. I will sketch an outline for a research roadmap for addressing and mitigating security threats against AI components and discuss what it would take to develop system designs that are more resilient against various types of AI misuse.
About the speaker: Dr.-Ing. Markus Miettinen obtained his M.Sc. in computer science in 2002 from the University of Helsinki, after which he pursued a career in industrial research at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland and Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2012, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany and in 2013 he joined the System Security Lab of the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt from where he obtained his doctorate in 2018. From 2023 to 2025 he was Professor of IT Security at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Since October 2025 he has been full professor of cybersecurity at the University of Jyväskylä. He is also a member of the leadership team of the Finnish Center of Expertise in Cybersecurity FICEC.
His research interests are centered around IoT security, the use of data analysis and AI in security applications, as well as security of AI algorithms, in particular the security implications of the increasingly ubiquitous deployment of AI in various systems. He has a big interest in fostering the transfer of research results to real-world applications, and is inventor or co-inventor in 20 granted international patents in eleven patent families.
Time: 23.2.2026 at 16:00 – 17:30 (coffee and buns served from 15:30). The lecture will be approximately 60 minutes, after which there will be time for questions.
Venue: Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, Espoo).
Registration: The event is open to all and free of charge, but we ask you to register for the event as it will help us to estimate the number of coffee ordered, thank you!
