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Haider Abbas – Islamabad, Pakistan

Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation: A Challenge for Every Organization
The aim of cyber security is to protect the systems, software and networks from malicious activities and attacks launched to gain illegitimate access, steal information or disrupting the services...
Cyber Security Threat Landscape in the Context of Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the ways in which industries function. Big data, industrial control systems, supervisory control, and data acquisition systems, smart machines, robotics, internet...
Cybersecurity and COVID Pandemic Era
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, reliance on online and cyberspace alternatives has increased as the individuals have been made to work from remote locations/homes. As a result, many...
Cyberwarfare: Who Needs a Gun when you have a Keyboard?
With the increasing reliance of governments on technology, the internet landscape has become a battlefield. Cyber warfare has become a dominant threat to the governments and business industries....
Security Assessment of Operating Systems
Security of any computer system largely depends on the security of its operating system (OS). Operating systems are a primary target of the hackers because of the information stored in the OS. A...

Mohiuddin Ahmed – Perth, WN, Australia

Blockchain Applications and Security: Current Topics in Computer Science
Blockchain is embraced by a varitety of application domains. In this talk, blockchain is discussed from the cybersecurity perspective. There is a contunuous rise in the number...
Current Issues in Cyber Security
Cyber security is an undeniable factor in todays era of Internet. Anything connected to the Internet can be hacked and regardless of the secuerity measures, hackers are still unstoppable....

Rizwan Ahmed – Nagpur, India

Mobile Forensics and Cyber Crime Investigations
This talk will cover various technical aspects related to Mobile Forensics. This talk will cover following specific...

Mohiuddin Ahmed – Perth, WN, Australia

Securing Internet of Health Things using Synergistic Blockchain
The latest digital innovations are creating opportunities for reshaping how healthcare organisations deliver patient services, improve outcomes, enhance clinician satisfaction and manage...
Security of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
In this talk, the advances in digitla healthcare is showcased. COnsequently the vulnerabilities arising from the usage of digital healthcre are also explored. A potential solution for these...

Mamoun Alazab – Bayview, ACT, Australia

The role of AI in fighting Polymorphic and Metamorphic Malware
Mal-ware is one of the major security threats in computer which have been in existence from the very early days. There is a lack of understanding of such malware threats and what mechanisms can be...

PARAMESHACHARI B D – Mysore, India

Introduction Technologies in Cryptography and Network Security
In recent decades, the requirements of information security within an organization have undergone a few major changes. Before the widespread usage of data processing equipment, the...
Security in Medical Image Communication
In the medical field, patient’s information plays a crucial role for tele-diagnosis and tele-surgery. Security is the critical problem amid during the transmission of medical images, because...

Federico Cerutti – Brescia, Italy

Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis
Cyber Threat Intelligence is the cyclic process analysts use to produce knowledge about weaknesses of one or more organisation's assets that can be exploited by one or more threats. Artificial...
The Importance of Causality in Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis
Each cyber attack is a set of chains of events linked together by time and causality: attackers’ and defenders’ actions influence each other in a complex, interconnected web of causal...

Abbas Cheddad – Karlskrona, Sweden

Digital Image Forensics
With the development of information technology and the availability of image acquisition and editing

tools, the use of these devices has become within a reach to everyone....

Aswani Kumar Cherukuri – Vellore, India

Exploring Blockchain Technology
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that maintains verifiable records with protection against malicious modifications and with Byzantine fault tolerance. This...

Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo – San Antonio, TX, United States

An interdisciplinary STEAM approach to cyber security research
Culturally and economically open nations, such as the United States (US), have thrived on the wealth that cyberspace and technologies have enabled. However, just as cyberspace and technologies...
Internet of Things (IoT) Forensics: Challenges and Opportunities
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming commonplace in our society, due to their widespread applications (e.g., environmental monitoring, smart cities, healthcare, surveillance, and...
Internet of Things (IoT) cyber security and threat intelligence: What are the research challenges and opportunities?
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming commonplace in our society, due to their widespread applications (e.g., environmental monitoring, smart cities, healthcare, surveillance, and...

Ashutosh Dutta – Laurel, MD, United States

Security in 5G Networks - Challenges and Opportunities
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key pillars of future networks, including 5G and beyond that promise to support emerging applications such as...

Josiah Dykstra – Severn, MD, United States

American Self-Defense in Cyberspace
The United States is a major consumer, contributor, and target in cyberspace. This talk will describe cyber threats, roles and responsibilities, technology, and policy considerations for achieving...
Getting Started with Cybersecurity Science
This talk offers an introduction for students and practitioners to the application of the scientific method to cybersecurity tools and systems. Creating, using, and evaluating cybersecurity tools...

Mohamed Elhoseny – Mansoura, Egypt

Secure Data Aggregation in Smart Sensor Applications
Despite the great efforts to secure data aggregation in smart sensors applications, the dynamic nature and the limited resources of sensor nodes make searching for a secure and optimal network...

Robert James Fine – Washington, DC, United States

The Next Cyber Warfare Wave: AR and VR Worlds
In this lecture, Robert shares the current vulnerabilities that hackers and bad actors can exploit within the current AR/VR hardware and software platforms, as well as providing current and future...

Sebastian Fischmeister – Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Safety and Security for Future Embedded Systems
For decades, safety was the dominating topic for cyberphysical systems. Safety of a system ensures that in the case of faults, the system is still highly unlikely to cause harm to users,...

Francesco Flammini – Västerås, Sweden

Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity
This seminar addresses the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity providing basic definitions and a taxonomic introduction to most common security threats and technologies. In particular,...
Risk Modeling and Evaluation for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems: From Design-Time to Run-Time
The concept of risk is a combination of threat probabilities, vulnerabilities and expected consequences. In traditional risk modeling and evaluation approaches, analyses are performed at...

Swaroop Ghosh – State College, PA, United States

Comprehensive treatment of security of persistent memories
Conventional volatile memories e.g., Static RAM (SRAM) suffer from significant leakage power whereas conventional storage class Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) e.g., Flash suffer from higher...
Exploiting Emerging Memory Technologies for Hardware Security
CMOS switches, although universal, fail to meet energy-efficiency, scalability and emerging constraints such as, security. Recent experimental studies have revealed that emerging...
Obfuscation of analog IPs
Analog Integrated Circuits (ICs) are one of the top targets for counterfeiting. However, the security of analog Intellectual Property (IP) is not well investigated as its digital counterpart....

Gernot Heiser – Sydney, NSW, Australia

Making Trusted Systems Trustworthy
We trust computer systems all the time: with our money, our sensitive private data, our critical infrastructure and, in the age of autonomous vehicles, increasingly with our lives. Yet...

Rasheed Hussain – Innopolis, Russian Federation

Distributed Ledger Technology for Charging on the move
In this talk, I will present the blockchain technology for constrained environments. As application use-case, we consider the autonomous cars and charging. For the efficient charging, we use IOTA...
Future of the Cybersecurity: AI/ML

In this talk, we will cover the current state of the cybersecurity, the attacker mindset, security doctrine, and the futureof cybersecurity.

We...

Celestine Iwendi – Uppsala, Sweden

Securing the Internet of Intelligent of Things (INTRUXIT)
Cybersecurity and hardware security have become the fundamental threats for major businesses today. Increasing attack includes substandard attacks, such as phishing, and on a larger scale...

Alireza Jolfaei – Sydney, NSW, Australia

Cyber Security with Application to Energy Systems
The efficient use and management of energy resources play an important role in attaining sustainable development. Today, many nations are undertaking power grid modernization initiatives, namely,...
Cyber Security with Application to Intelligent Transportation Systems
Autonomous vehicular technology is approaching a level of maturity that gives confidence to the end-users in many cities around the world for their usage so as to share the roads with manual...
Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems Security
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) comprise the backbone of national critical infrastructure such as power grids, transportation systems, and home automation systems, which are highly...

Burak Kantarci – Ottawa, ON, Canada

Empowering behaviometrics for authentication
Learning unique behavioral patterns of an individual can improve detection of identity spoofing while addressing user comfort issues in user authentication processes. To this end, social and...

Latifur Rahman Khan – Plano, TX, United States

Automating Vulnerability Detection and Prevention in Smart Contracts
With the increase in the adoption of blockchain technology in providing decentralized solutions to various problems, smart contracts have been becoming more popular to the point that billions of...

Charalambos Konstantinou – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Cyber-Physical Infrastructure of Power Systems: Security Threats, Challenges and Countermeasures
Election hacking, power grid cyber-attacks, troll farms, fake news, ransomware, and other terms have entered our daily vocabularies and are here to stay. Cybersecurity touches nearly every part of...
Cyber-Physical Systems Security Education through Hands-on Lab Exercises
As information and communication technologies become more embedded into our daily life, cyber-physical systems (CPS) have attracted extensive attention from industry, academia, and the government...
Cyber-Physical and Embedded Systems Security: A Hardware Security Perspective
Embedded devices are increasingly integrated in several cyber-physical domains including power grid, home and automation networks, and smart/connected cars. The deployment of embedded systems in...
Introduction to Industrial Control Systems Security
This talk introduces basic and advanced topics on industrial control systems (ICS) security. It starts with operational security, providing guidance on recognizing weaknesses in everyday...
Trustworthy and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
As information and communication technologies become more embedded into our daily life, cyber-physical systems (CPS) have attracted extensive attention from industry, academia, and the government...

Weizhi Meng – Copenhagen, Denmark

Towards Trust Management-based Detection in Internet of Things
With the tremendous development of Internet of Things (IoT), many security concerns have been raised. For protection, detection mechanisms like intrusion detection system (IDS) are moving...

Sanjay Misra – Lagos, Nigeria

Machine Learning Approach for Android Malware
Android is by far the most widely used mobile phone operating system around. However, Android-based applications are highly vulnerable to various types of malware attacks...

David Mohaisen – Orlando, FL, United States

How Secure are Blockchain Systems?
Blockchains are promising many applications in distributed computing systems, ranging from supply chain to critical infrastructure (e.g., cyber-physical systems). For foundations-driven guarantees...
Malware Analysis and Classification Using Machine Learning
Malicious software (or malware) is a vehicle for adversaries to launch various types of attacks, and there has been a constant steam of malware samples in the wild over the past few years. Per one...
Towards Taming Adversarial Machine Learning: Security Applications Perspectives
The recent rapid advances in machine and deep learning algorithms have found many applications in the security space, targeting various applications including intrusion detection systems, malware...

Nour Moustafa – Canberra, ACT, Australia

A New Distributed Architecture for Evaluating AI-based Security Systems at the Edge: Network TON\_IoT Datasets
While there has been a significant interest in understanding the cyber threat landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) networks, and the design of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based security...
A Novel Cognitive Computing Technique using Convolutional Networks for Automating the Criminal Investigation Process in Policing
Criminal Investigation (CI) plays an important role in policing, where police use various traditional techniques to investigate criminal activities such as robbery and assault. However, the...
Attacking Techniques and Intrusion Detection: Getting insights of Signature vs Anomaly models
In this lecture, we will discuss Intrusion Techniques Viruses and Worms. We will also describe the concepts of signature vs anomaly detection in network systems. We will Learn Signature...
Distributed Anomaly Detection System as a Service using Statistical Learning for Industrial IoT-Edge-Cloud Networks
As Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems have become more commonplace, there are various data management and security monitoring tools deployed at the cloud for logging and inspecting...

Zeeshan Pervez – Paisley, United Kingdom

Blockchain: paving the way for open and transparent governance in smart cities
In this lecture, I will discuss a hybrid deployment model of blockchain for open and transparent governance in smart cities. The lecture will present participatory application in which inhabitants...
Making sense out of IoT data streams
Internet-of-Things (IoT) generates enormous data streams from a sensing and actuating environment. Extracting valuable information from these data streams enables service providers (smart cities,...

Junaid Qadir – Doha, Qatar

Secure and Robust Machine Learning for Healthcare
Recent years have witnessed widespread adoption of machine learning (ML)/deep learning (DL) techniques due to their superior performance for a variety of healthcare applications ranging from the...

Heena Rathore – Austin, TX, United States

Deep Learning Based Security Solutions for the Internet of Medical Things
Intelligent healthcare has gained importance in the recent past since it allows continuous, remote monitoring of patients away from hospitals and doctors. With advances in technology,...
Improving Security in the Internet of Things(IoT) through Bio-Inspired Approaches
As massive amounts of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices are approaching to change our lives, security in these devices is crucial. The security threats from traditional Internet...
Is Future of Safety in Autonomous Vehicles Blockchain or IOTA?
Connected vehicles are set to define the future of transportation, however, this upcoming technology continues to be plagued with serious security risks. If these risks are not addressed in...
Strategies for Making Cyber-Physical Systems Secure
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) consist of sensing and cyber components controlled by digital and analog signals. Such systems are engineered for human interaction through tightly...

Danda B Rawat – Washington, DC, United States

Blockchain Technology: Emerging Applications and Use Cases
Blockchain technology stores different transactions/operations in a chain of blocks in a distributed manner without needing a trusted third-party. Furthermore, blockchain is proven to be immutable...

Shishir Kumar Shandilya – Bhopal, India

Nature-inspired Cyber Defense: Resilience & Immunity
Organizations are witnessing a constant barrage of cyber-attacks in the form of ransom ware, phishing, malware, botnets, insider threats, and many others. The situation is untenable and getting...

Biplab Sikdar – Singapore, Singapore

Cyber Security Challenges and Solutions for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a great opportunity to connect people, information, and things, which will in turn cause a paradigm shift in the way we work, interact, and think. The IoT...
Cyber Security and Privacy for Smart Cities
As cities strive to maintain their economic growth and provide the civic infrastructure to its residents and businesses, they are increasingly turning to “smart solutions”. The...

Madhusudan Singh – Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Decentralized Trusted Platform for Requirement Engineering
In the Requirements elicitation phase of requirements gathering, a lot of information is collected and documented from the stakeholders and customers. Every new discussion with customers...

Yan Solihin – Orlando, FL, United States

Secure Execution Environment: Design Principles and Common Pitfalls
There is an increasing demand for the processor architecture to provide secure execution environment in various compute platforms including the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Current...
Security Implications of Persistent Memory
Persistent memory allows a new abstraction for persistent data by wrapping data structures into Persistent Memory Objects (PMOs). PMOs offer conveniences but introduces new security...

Gaurav Somani – Ajmer, India

Advanced Persistent Threats: Incidents and road ahead
In this talk, we discuss the upcoming cyber security threat, advanced persistent threat (APT) which is very hard to detect due to its zero-day nature. Zero-day vulnerabilities do not get detected...
Cloud and Virtualization: Inception, Reality and Usage
In this talk, we give a practical overview of cloud computing infrastructures and virtualization technology. This involves, discussion related to server consolidation, formal model of a virtual...
DDoS Attack Space in Cloud Computing
In this talk, we will get to understand one of the important security breaches in modern networks, DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack and its impact on emerging cloud computing...
Security Engineering: Overview and Directions
In this talk, we discuss an important field of cyber security solution space where we strive to design security solutions by keeping a number of aspects in mind. Security Engineering is a...

Houbing Song – Daytona Beach, FL, United States

Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System(s) (C-UAS): State of the Art, Challenges and Future Trends
There is an increasing need to fly Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, commonly known as drones) in the airspace to perform missions of vital importance to national security and defense, emergency...

Shamik Sural – Kharagpur, India

Access Control: Foundations and Recent Advancements
Access control is one of the most important pillars of computer security and is a well-researched topic in this field spanning more than four decades. Access control mechanisms, typically...

Daniel Takabi – ATLANTA, GA, United States

Secure Privacy preserving Machine Learning
Deep learning with neural networks has become a highly popular machine learning method due to recent breakthroughs in computer vision, speech recognition, and other areas. However, the deep...

Stefano Zanero – Milano, Italy

Breaking the Laws of Robotics: Attacking Industrial Robots
Industrial robots are complex cyber-physical systems used for manufacturing, and a critical component of any modern factory. These robots aren't just electromechanical devices but include...
Crouching hacker, killer robot? Removing FUD from cyber-physical security
Cyber-physical systems are attracting a lot of attention: attacks on connected cars received a lot of media exposure, as did attacks on industrial control systems, airplanes or medical devices. A...
MAKING SENSE OF A MILLION SAMPLES PER DAY: BEHAVIOR-BASED METHODS FOR AUTOMATED, SCALABLE MALWARE ANALYSIS
With the astonishing rate of new and modified malware samples being released daily, automation of analysis is needed to classify and cluster together similar samples, exclude basic and...