Seminar On practical Security
Welcome to the ELEVENTH annual BU RISCS Seminar On practical Security.
The seminar meets:
- On summer Wednesdays (June 9 - August 25, 2021)
- From 10am-11am
- On ZOOM:
https://agile.bu.edu/poc/opportunity
Table of Contents
Introduction
The intent of the seminar is to focus on practical elements of security, including implementation, (technically) offensive and defensive approaches, and even physical security: the type of security that is typically represented in less academic hacker conferences such as
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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.
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practical security are in scope for this seminar. For example,
zero-click radio proximity attacks on iOS are appropriate, whereas a novel multi-party computation solution 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:
- Summer 2020 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from 2020.
- Summer 2019 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from 2019.
- Summer 2018 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from 2018.
- Summer 2017 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from 2017.
- Summer 2016 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from 2016.
- Summer 2015 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from 2015.
- Summer 2014 - Seminar list, with some presentations slides, from 2014.
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:
- Eshed Ohn-Bar -
- Ran Canetti -
- Manuel Egele -
- Sharon Goldberg -
- Steve Homer -
- Leonid Reyzin -
- Adam Smith -
- David Starobinski -
- Gianluca Stringhini -
- Ari Trachtenberg - cybersecurity, systems (distributed and otherwise)
- Mayank Varia - cryptography
- Shengzhi Zhang -
- Yuting Zhang -
Hacker conference videos
BU students and faculty may access videos of some hacker conferences (some require a kerberos ID):