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iCIS Security Seminars are organized by the iCORE Information Security Lab and include talks by invited speakers, research students and staff on all aspects of information, computer and communication security.

SPIE (Security Professionals Information Exchange) luncheon seminars occur the last Thursday of every month

Events

Past Seminars 

January 30, 2012: ISPIA Distinguished Lecture Series
  • Speaker: Nicolas W. Vermeys
  • Title: Securing Cybercourts: The Security Implications of Digital Justice
  • Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Location: Biological Sciences Building 587 (Teaching and Learning Center)

  • Abstract: Vermeys Image Whether through the use of efiling, ODR, electronic case management or any other number of technological innovations, courts across the country and around the world are turning towards information technology to streamline the judicial process and, hopefully, make it more efficient and accessible. Such an undertaking should however take into account a series of factors often overlooked such as how technology will influence our relationship with the legal system and how the data and metadata generated through the use of such technologies should be controlled and protected. This lecture will focus on the importance of these issues and how they need to be addressed if we wish to go forward with the modernisation of the judicial process through the implementation of cyberjustice solutions.

  • Bio: Nicolas W. Vermeys, LL. B. (Université de Montréal), LL. M. (Université de Montréal), LL. D. (Université de Montréal), CISSP, is a professor at the Université de Montréal’s Faculté de droit, the codirector of the maîtrise en commerce électronique (an e-commerce masters’ program offered by the Université de Montréal’S Faculté de droit in collaboration with HEC Montréal and theDépartement d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle de l’Université de Montréal) and the associate director of theCyberjustice Laboratory. He also serves as a legal advisor for the law firm of Legault Joly Thiffault and as a lecturer for the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Mr. Vermeys is a certified information system security professional (CISSP) as recognised by (ISC)2, and is the author of numerous publications relating to the impact of technology on the law, including Actes illicites sur Internet : Qui et comment poursuivre? (Yvon Blais, 2011), Responsabilité civile et sécurité informationnelle (Yvon Blais, 2010), and Virus informatiques : Responsables et responsabilité (Thémis, 2006). He is also a columnist for Éditions Yvon Blais’ Droit civil en ligne(DCL) service and serves as a member of the Scientific Panel of different law journals, including Lex Electronica, for which he served as editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Vermeys’ research focuses on legal issues pertaining to information security, developments in the field of cyberjustice, and other questions relating to the impact of technological innovations on the law. He is often invited to speak on these topics by the media, and regularly lectures for judges, lawyers, professional orders, and government organizations, in Canada and abroad.


    October 6th, 2011: ISPIA Distinguished Lecture Series
    • Speaker: Balachander Krishnamurthy Ph.D, AT&T Labs-Research
      http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers
    • Title: Internet privacy: It is not getting better
    • Date: Thursday, October 6th, 2011
    • Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
      (The doors open at 2:30pm. Light refreshments available at 2:30 before the talk)
    • Location: Biological Sciences Building 587 (Teaching and Learning Center)

    • Abstract: Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with both the advent of Online Social Networks and a significant amount of publicity related to privacy. For the last few years we have been examining the leakage of privacy on the Internet: how information related to individual users is aggregated as they browse seemingly unrelated Web sites. Our results show increasing aggregation of user-related data by a steadily decreasing number of entities. I will present results from studies on leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) via Online Social Networks (both traditional and mobile OSNs) and popular non-OSN sites. I will also present the current status of both technical and non-technical attempts to ameliorate the problem.

    • Bio: Balachander Krishnamurthy is a member of technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research. His focus of research of is in the areas of Internet privacy, Online Social Networks, and Internet measurements. He has authored and edited ten books, published over 80 technical papers, holds twenty nine patents, and has given invited talks in over thirty countries. He co-founded the successful Internet Measurement Conference and the Workshop on Online Social Networks. He has been on the thesis committee of several PhD students, collaborated with over seventy five researchers worldwide, and given tutorials at several industrial sites and conferences.

      His most recent book "Internet Measurements: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications" (525pp, Wiley, with Mark Crovella), was published in July 2006 and is the first book focusing on Internet Measurement. His previous book 'Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement' (672 pp, Addison-Wesley, with Jennifer Rexford) is the first in-depth book on the technology underlying the World Wide Web, and has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese.

      Bala is ‘homepageless’ and not on any OSN, but many of his papers can be found at http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers

    • Lecture poster

    April 14, 2011: Keeping our information safe for the long term

    • Speaker: Sergey Bratus, Ph.D, ISTS Chief Security Advisor and Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College 
    • Title: What hacker research taught me (or: Hackers and Computer Science)
    • Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
    • Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
      (The door is open at 2:30pm. Some refreshments available at 2:30 before the talk)
    • Location: Biological Sciences Building 561 (Teaching and Learning Center)

    • Abstract: Although most academics and industry practitioners regard "hacking" as mostly ad-hoc, a loose collection of useful tricks essentially random in nature, I will argue that hacking has in fact become a "distinct research and engineering discipline" with deep underlying engineering ideas and insights. Although not yet formally defined as such, it are these ideas and insights that drive the great contributions that hacking has been making to our understanding of computing, including the challenges of handling complexity, composition, and security in complex systems. I will argue that hacking uncovers and helps to understand (and teach) fundamental issues that go to the heart of Computer Science as we know it, and will try to formulate several such fundamental principles which I have learned from hacker research. Click here to view expanded outline

    • Bio: Sergey Bratus is ISTS' Chief Security Advisor and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College where he has taught the “Computer Security and Privacy” course. His current research focuses on applications of machine learning and AI to intrusion analysis. He is interested in all aspects of Unix security, in particular in Linux kernel security, and detection and reverse engineering of Linux malware. His other interests are in the application of Natural Language Processing and P2P networking applications for Semantic Web initiatives. Sergey received his undergraduate education at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (AKA, Moscow Phystech), and his Ph.D. at Northeastern University (1999). Before coming to Dartmouth, he worked at BBN Technologies on statistical learning for text understanding and similar topics.  
    November 18, 2010: Brian Snow, previous Senior Technical Director at the National Security Agency, spoke as part of ISPIA's Distinguished Lecture Series, on the subject of information assurance:

    November 10, 2010:

    • Speaker: Richard Guy, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
    • Title: Reminiscences from World War II.
    • Date: Wednesday, November 10
    • Time: 10:00 - 11:00
    • Location: ICT 516
    • Abstract: While attending a crypto course, I was surprised at seeing references such as Shannon (1949) and several much more recent ones, and at how much we knew and how much we didn't know 70 years ago. Clearly I can't teach you anything about cryptography, and it would be insulting to suggest that you don't know the difference between a code and a cipher, but you may be interested in reminiscences of times gone by and in comparing then and now.  

    September 30, 2010:

    • Speaker: Dr. Hugh Williams, ISPIA Co-Director currently seconded to Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC)
    • Title: Cryptologic Research Institute
    • Date: Thursday, September 30
    • Time: 2pm
    • Location: MS 431

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