Seminar On practical Security

Welcome to the TENTH annual BU RISCS Seminar On practical Security.

The seminar meets on summer Mondays (May 25 - August 24, 2020) from 11am-noon on ZOOM: https://tinyurl.com/y8w8bb9h

Table of Contents

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 (presentation) denotes an accompanying slideshow provided by the speaker.

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
May 25 26
June 1
June 8
 
June 15
June 22
June 29
July 6
 
July 13
July 20
July 27
 
August 3
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August 10
 
August 17
August 24

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References

Suggested Papers

Students looking for a paper to present are welcome to consider the following:

Faculty

Feel free to reach out to the seminar faculty if you're looking for paper recommendations:

Hacker conference videos

BU students and faculty may access videos of some hacker conferences (some require a kerberos ID):