Secure Systems Demo Day 2025

Welcome to the Secure Systems Demo Day 2025!

Secure Systems Demo Day is organized by the Secure Systems 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, Secure Systems Demo Days have become an essential gathering for security experts who return annually to reconnect with peers and meet new graduates entering the cybersecurity field.

Additionally, the Demo Day offers an excellent platform for students and researchers to explore job opportunities within the local information security industry and academia. In recent years, typically 8-10 companies participate, 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 event and free of charge. However, we kindly ask to you register to receive a calendar invitation and the event updates.

We look forward to seeing you there!

– Lachlan Gunn, Tuomas Aura and Valtteri Niemi

 

Date: 16.6.2025

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-demoday-2025

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

Program:

13:30-14:00          Registration desk open

14:00-15:15          Research highlight talks

• Lachlan Gunn, Aalto University: Research highlights from Aalto and University of Helsinki
• Merlijn Sebrechts, Ghent University and Imec: Software deployment and trust in the cloud and on devices

15:15-15:30          Coffee break

15:30-18:00          Poster session & company desks

List of presentations at the poster session (check back for updates):

5G and applied cryptography:

• Sanish Gurung and Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki): Fake base station detection and tracking (poster)

Cloud security:

• Dat Doan (Aalto University), Jose Luis Martin Navarro (Aalto University, Universitat Politècnica de València): Hardening a Kubernetes cluster (poster)
• Jose Luis Martin Navarro (Aalto University, Universitat Politècnica de València), Tuomas Aura (Aalto University): Helm-ET: Reducing Exposure to Lateral Movement in Kubernetes Artifacts (demo)

Cryptography:

• Gizem Akman (University of Helsinki): Mutual enforcement protocols with split keys (poster)
• Chris Brzuska and Russell Lai (Aalto University): Cryptography at Aalto (poster)

Cybersecurity education:

• Tuomas Aura and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Cybersecurity education at CS Aalto (poster)
• Harri Kähkönen and Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki): Cybersecurity curriculum development (poster)

Network security:

• Ijaz Ahmad, Andrea Gentili, Pekka Koskela ((VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Latency-aware ad-hoc authentication for IoT in 6G (poster)
• Sonika Baniya (Nokia Bell Labs, Aalto University, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Tuomas Aura (Aalto University): Empirical Security Analysis of Telephony APIs (poster)
• Md Muzammal Hoque, Andrea Dalla Costa, Andrea Gentili, Jani Suomalainen, Ijaz Ahmad, Markku Kylänpää (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Confidential Containerized Federated Learning for Distributed Security (poster)
• Jose Luis Martin Navarro (Aalto University, Universitat Politècnica de València): DiReCT Voting: Dispute Resolution with Cast Timeliness (poster)
• Mariam Moustafa (Aalto University), Mohit Sethi (Kone) and Tuomas Aura (Aalto University): Attacks on Key Ownership in Common Security Protocols (poster)
• Nicola Tuveri, Akif Mehmood, Nouman Khan, Francesco Rollo (Tampere University): QUBIP: Post-Quantum Internet Browsing (poster and demo)

Platform security:

• Joonas Ahola (Aalto University, Huawei): Device Boot-up Security Restoration with Post-Quantum Split-key KEM (poster)
• Armand Balint (Aalto University, Huawei): Securing OS Binaries: TEE-Based Progressive Randomization (poster and demo)
• Mostafa Ghozal and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Making TPM Extended Authorization Practical (poster and demo)
• Ionut Groza and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Building Trust in Webassembly Components (poster)
• Amirreza Hashemi(Aalto University, Huawei): Control Flow Integrity with Guarded Control Stack (poster)
• Markku Kylänpää (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Embedded Confidential Computing (poster)
• Sudharsun Lakshmi Narasimhan (Aalto University), Jukka Ylitalo (Ericsson), Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Remote Attestation of User Space Applications at Run-Time (poster)
• Xuan-Huy Ngo and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Generic Migration with Fair Exchange (poster)
• Cuong Nguyen (Aalto University, Huawei): KEMEDHOC*: A formally verified implementation of quantum-resistant EDHOC key exchange protocol (poster)
• Shahd Omer and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Flexible Access Control for WebAssembly-based Serverless Computing (poster)
• Parsa Sadri Sinaki (Huawei): Fine-Grained Load-Time Randomization of ELF binaries (poster)
• Ghazal Shenavar, Xuan-Huy Ngo, Jose Luis Martin-Navarro, Lachlan J. Gunn (Aalto University): Chain of Unified Attestations (poster and demo)
• Wentao Xie and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Extensible Platform-Agnostic Remote Attestation with WebAssembly Component (poster)
• Yerzhan Zhamashev and Lachlan Gunn (Aalto University): Secure Lifecycle Management of WebAssembly on Constrained IoT Gateways (demo)

Usable security and privacy:

• Rongjun Ma and Janne Lindqvist (Aalto University): Privacy Perceptions of Custom GPTs by Users and Creators (poster)

Attending companies and organizations:

• Cyber Citizen
• Ericsson
• Huawei
• Nokia Bell Labs
• SSH
• Traficom (NCC-FI)
• VTT
• WithSecure
• Women4 Cyber Finland

 

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.