Seminar On practical Security
Welcome to the
NINTH annual BU RISCS Seminar On practical Security. The seminar meets
Fridays during the summer (June 7 - August 23, 2018) from
noon-1pm in PHO 339.
This page provides organizational information for the seminar.
Introduction
The intent of the seminar is to focus on practical elements of security, including implementation, offensive and defensive approaches, and even physical security: the type of security that is typically represented in less academic hacker conferences such as
BLACKHAT,
DEFCON,
BSIDES,
SHMOOCON, or the
Chaos Computing Congress. Such practical areas of security have still weakly permeated the academic community, and yet the academic world can provide a lot of needed guidance and fundamental thinking, in addition to getting some grounding in real-world challenges.
All elements of
practical security are in scope for this seminar. For example, entropy-reducing attacks on current implementations of random-number generators are appropriate, whereas a novel cryptosystem predicated on the ability of pigs to fly might not be (unless, of course, you provide a demonstration of said pigs).
Seminar list
A presentation icon (
) denotes an accompanying slideshow provided by the speaker.
Older seminars
You can find older seminars linked here:
- 2018 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2018.
- 2017 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2017.
- 2016 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2016.
- 2015 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2015.
- 2014 - Seminar list, with some presentations slides, from Summer 2014.
References
Suggested Papers
Students looking for a paper to present are welcome to consider the following:
Hacker conference videos
BU students and faculty may access videos of some hacker conferences (some require a kerberos ID):