02234 - Current Topics in System Security - Autumn 2023

General Information

Time: Tuesdays 13 - 17
Location:
    Tuesday 13-15, lecture in 303A/Auditorium 41 (or online when announced)
    Tuesday 15-17, independent group work in 303A/Auditorium 41 + databar 047 (or wherever you want)
Lecturers:
    Nicola Dragoni
    Christian Damsgaard Jensen
    Tyge Tiessen
    Weizhi Meng
    Christian Majenz
    Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
    Luisa Siniscalchi
    Edlira Dushku (guest lecturer from Aalborg University)

Objectives

The objective of the course is to provide knowledge of selected advanced topics in systems cybersecurity, and to give participants practice at investigating topics in the literature and producing written and oral presentations which distill the essential features of a topic on the basis of a literature study.

Course Format

The course is given as a combination of lectures and project work. A number of topics, related to the research interests of the teachers, will be covered during lectures in the first 10 weeks of the course (students should expect to read 2-3 scientific papers in preparation for each lecture). During this time, students will select one of these topics and prepare their own "research project" which will be presented during the Student Workshops in the final weeks of the course and written up as a research paper that must be submitted before midnight (CET) on 30 December 2023.

Topics

Topics considered in the courses may vary from year to year. This year, the topics will mainly relate to security in pervasive computing systems; pervasive computing is also known as ubiquitous computing or ambient intelligence. Pervasive computing systems are made up of small inexpensive mobile devices (e.g. smart phones or tablets) that interact with each other and/or with services embedded in the environment in order to provide personalised and location based services to the users.
 
The vision of pervasive computing raises a number of difficult challenges to the security and privacy of users and devices in the system. In this course we will discuss how the changes in the computing paradigm affects the common assumptions made in traditional security models, policies and mechanisms. Moreover, we will study a number of areas of special interest and examine security solutions proposed to address the challenges in pervasive computing systems.
 
Finally, students will be required to define their own "research project", which analyses a security problem in pervasive computing related to one of the specific topics covered during the lectures. The project may either provide a survey of the area that presents the state of the art or it may focus on a specific problem and propose a solution that addresses that problem. In the latter case, the proposed solution should define the security model and present the design for a protocol/mechanism that solves the problem, but no implementation will be required in this course (implementation and evaluation of the proposed solution may be considered a topic for a subsequent special course).

Activity Calendar

Please note that the activity calendar below is preliminary and might be subject to change.
Lecture N. Date Activity Lecturer Topic
1 29 August Lecture Nicola Dragoni Course Presentation, The Dark Side of Digital Transformation
2 5 September Lecture Christian D. Jensen From Trust to Zero Trust and Back
3 12 September Lecture Weizhi Meng Blockchain and Relevant Applications
4 19 September Lecture Christian Majenz The New NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards — Overview and Some Details About Kyber
5 26 September Lecture Edlira Dushku (guest lecturer) Remote Attestation for Internet of Things
6 03 October Lecture Sajad Homayoun Applications of AI/Machine Learning in Cybersecurity
7 10 October Lecture Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis An Introduction to Cyberdeception
Autumn Break
8 24 October Lecture Tyge Tiessen Kerckhoff's Principle and Standardization in Cryptography
9 31 October Lecture [CANCELLED] Luisa Siniscalchi Exploring the Beautiful World of Secure Multi-Party Computation
10 07 November Lecture Nicola Dragoni
Luisa Siniscalchi
How to Write a Paper (Nicola)
Exploring the Beautiful World of Secure Multi-Party Computation (Luisa)
11 14 November Student Workshop / Schedule will be published on DTU Learn
12 21 November Student Workshop / Schedule will be published on DTU Learn
13 28 November Student Workshop / Schedule will be published on DTU Learn