The HAIC public outreach initiative aims to make information security more accessible to a broader audience. Part of this initiative, are organizing HAIC Talks, a series of public lectures on contemporary topics in information security. In the style of studia generalia, these lectures are free and open to everyone. No background knowledge in information security is required. Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Paterson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Lecture description: Quantum computing represents a new computing paradigm that directly exploits the laws of physics to perform “interesting” computations. In particular, if…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…