Agenda

Monday 23/11-2020

We colocate with NISK. Since NISK moved from Sundvollen to an online conference owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, we also moved online with the COINS Ph.D. student seminar.

1300-1315 Welcome, introduction, presentation of participants
1315-1400 Vivek Agrawal: My Ph.D. journey – based on a true story!
1400-1445 Presentations by the participants

• Bálint Zoltán Téglásy: Underwater security, safety and authentication
• Jin Zhang: Assuring Neural Network Robustness for Autonomous Driving Purpose
• Wrya Kadir: Characterisation of the parameters of maximum weight spectrum codes according to their spread

1445-1500 Coffee break
1500-1600 Presentations by the participants

• Muhammad Ali Fauzi: How to measure cybersecurity practices of hospital staffs
• Prosper Yeng: Data-driven approach for modeling and analyzing healthcare security practice
• Livinus Obiora Nweke: Legal Issues Related to Cyber Threat Information Sharing Among Private Entities for Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Aida Akbarzadeh: Identifying Critical Components in Large Scale Cyber Physical Systems

1600-1610 Election of two COINS student representatives
1610-1620 Coffee break
1620-1650 Pankaj Wasnik: Yet Another Ph.D. Story
1650-1700 Closing

To register,

1. Fill in an application for funding (type of support: “Ph.D. student seminar”, financial support 0 NOK)
2. Register for NISK (not mandatory, but highly recommended); COINS covers registration fees for NISK unless you have a paper accepted at NIK/NISK/NOKOBIT/UDIT, in that case we expect your department to pay for conference registration.

 

Logistics

The seminar will take place on Monday afternoon. NISK will start Tuesday morning (until Wednesday afternoon).

All inquiries can be sent to info@coinsrs.no.

ECTS credits

Participating COINS Ph.D. can obtain ECTS credits that might be used towards the taught component of their Ph.D. programme.

Students need to enrol in “IMT6004 COINS Workshop” at NTNU to be formally allowed to get ECTS credits according to the requirements in the course description. (If you have taken IMT6004 before, you can enrol in “IMT6005 COINS Workshop II” (or “IMT6006 COINS Workshop III”).

Please indicate in your application for funding or by email to info@coinsrs.no if you are interested in enrolling in IMT6004. Students get a transcript from NTNU documenting their participation and then need to present it to their local COINS member institution. All consortium members agreed that participation in IMT600x would be recognised as being eligible for consideration towards the taught component of the Ph.D. programmes.

Agenda

Monday 25/11-2019, Narvik

Map

1300-1315 Welcome, introduction, presentation of participants
1315-1400 Lessons learned from doing a Ph.D.

• Seraj Fayyad, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan: Doing PhD in IoT Security.

1400-1530 Presentations by the participants

• Ahmed Walid Amro: Connect and Protect: Requirements for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship in Urban Passenger Transportation
• Livinus Obiora Nweke: Resilience Analysis of Software-Defined Networks Using Queueing Networks
• Muhammad Ali Fauzi: Modelling Healthcare Staffs’ Mental State to Minimize Cybersecurity Risk
• Prosper Yeng: overview of modeling and analyzing healthcare staffs’ security practices
• Muhammad Mudassar Yamin: Serious Games as a Tool to Model Attack and Defense Scenarios for Cyber-Security Exercises

1530-1615 Life after the Ph.D.

• Oleksandr  Kazymyrov: Time-Lapse in Industry: 5 Years in 40 minutes
• Andrii Shalaginov, NTNU: Life after PhD: collaboration, networking and funding opportunities
• Berglind Fjola Smaradottir, UiA: The life after the PhD: how to find new projects and funding of proposals

1615-1645 Panel: Ask the Professor/Professional
1645-1700 Election of two COINS student representatives

To register,

1. Fill in an application for funding (type of support: “Ph.D. student seminar”)
2. Register for NISK (not mandatory, but highly recommended)

 

Logistics

The seminar will take place on Monday afternoon. NISK will start Tuesday morning (until Wednesday evening). For accommodation we suggest to follow the recommendations by NISK organizers.

COINS students get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Narvik) and accommodation (COINS+NISK). Students without a regular paper, i.e. none or a poster, get coverage for the NISK conference fee. This results from the longstanding COINS policy that presentations of full papers are considered to be in the responsibility of the student’s department.

NISK: You need to wear your COINS t-shirt and/or hoodie and upload a picture of you wearing it at the conference. You need to submit a 2 page travel report on your participation that can be shared with other COINS students and can be published on the COINS website after the event. If you present a poster at NISK, you send us a picture of you presenting the poster with a COINS logo instead of a travel report.

COINS supervisors get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Narvik) and accommodation related to their Ph.D. student seminar participation. COINS does not pay for supervisor attendance or participation at NISK, but you are welcome to book your flight so that you can attend NISK with your own funding.

SWITS students and Ph.D. students from COINS partners get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Narvik) and accommodation under the same conditions as COINS students.
COINS does pay for accommodation and NISK attendance for students that attend both the COINS seminar and NISK, present a poster, wear a COINS t-shirt throughout the NISK conference, acknowledge COINS funding on their poster and document their contribution by two photos of them taken at the conference and by writing a one page report on their seminar participation that can be published.

All inquiries can be sent to info@coinsrs.no.

ECTS credits

Participating COINS Ph.D. can obtain ECTS credits that might be used towards the taught component of their Ph.D. programme.

Students need to enrol in “IMT6004 COINS Workshop” at NTNU to be formally allowed to get ECTS credits according to the requirements in the course description. (If you have taken IMT6004 before, you can enrol in “IMT6005 COINS Workshop II” (or “IMT6006 COINS Workshop III”).

Please indicate in your application for funding or by email to info@coinsrs.no if you are interested in enrolling in IMT6004. Students get a transcript from NTNU documenting their participation and then need to present it to their local COINS member institution. All consortium members agreed that participation in IMT600x would be recognised as being eligible for consideration towards the taught component of the Ph.D. programmes.

The topic of the summer school was network security.

Six invited lecturers, thirteen students from COINS and abroad, an international researcher, supervisors and an industry representative contributed to the programme. The topics of the lectures were:

• Sandra Scott-Hayward, Queen’s University Belfast: SDN and NFV Security
• Thomas Lukaseder, Ulm University: SDN-assisted Mitigation of DDoS Attacks
• Slobodan Petrović, NTNU: Approximate Search in Intrusion Detection
• Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi: LTE/Mobile Network Security
• Steffen Wendzel, University of Applied Sciences Worms: Network Information Hiding and Covert Channels
• Christoffer Hallstensen, NTNU: Computer Network Defence – the big picture

Agenda

Tuesday 18/9-2018, Radisson Blu Polar Hotel Spitsbergen

Map

1300-1315 Welcome, introduction, presentation of participants
1315-1415 Lessons learned from doing a Ph.D.

• Chris Carr, NTNU: How to get (and not to get) a PhD + why you should / shouldn’t travel
• Andrii Shalaginov, NTNU: Ph.D: “Mission Impossible” or “Roadside Picnic”?
• Bo Sun, UiB: There is always light at the end of the tunnel

1415-1600 Presentations by the participants

• Adam Szekeres, NTNU: Towards predicting individual human decision making in the context of IoT security
• Ali Khodabakhsh, NTNU: Fake Face Detection: A Biometric Approach
• Jan William Johnsen, NTNU: Identifying Central Individuals in Organised Criminal Groups and Underground Marketplaces
• Mazaher Kianpour, NTNU: Cyber Risk Quantification for Business and Economic Gain
• Muhammad Mudassar Yamin, NTNU: Importance of autonomous teams in operation-based cyber security exercises
• Shukun Tokas, UiO: Language-based mechanisms for GDPR compliance

1610-1650 Life after the Ph.D.

• Berglind Smaradottir, UiA: Experiences from doing a Phd in ICT at the University of Agder – How to find a job afterwards?
• Bikash Agrawal, UiS: A journey from PhD to Startup

1650-1700 Election of two COINS student representatives

To register,

1. register for NISK, then
2. fill in an application for funding (type of support: “Ph.D. student seminar”).

Please note that owing to flight/hotel capacity, COINS only supports students that attend both the Ph.D. student seminar and NISK.

Logistics

The seminar will take place on Tuesday afternoon. NISK will start Wednesday morning (until Thursday evening). There are not many places to stay in Longyearbyen, so we suggest to follow the recommendations for accommodation by NISK organizers.

COINS students get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Longyearbyen) and accommodation (COINS+NISK). Students without a regular paper, i.e. none or a poster, get coverage for the NISK conference fee; authors of full papers get funding for the conference fee only if they in addition register for IMT6004. This results from the longstanding COINS policy that presentations of full papers are considered to be in the responsibility of the student’s department.

NISK: You need to wear your COINS t-shirt and/or hoodie and upload a picture of you wearing it at the conference. You need to submit a 2 page travel report on your participation that can be shared with other COINS students and can be published on the COINS website after the event. If you present a poster at NISK, you send us a picture of you presenting the poster with a COINS logo instead of a travel report. If you enrol in IMT6004, you send us an extended travel report detailing the presentations you attended, questions that were asked, and important points from discussions at the conference.

COINS supervisors get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Longyearbyen) and accommodation related to their Ph.D. student seminar participation. COINS does not pay for supervisor attendance or participation at NISK, but you are welcome to book your flight so that you can attend NISK with your own funding.

SWITS students and Ph.D. students from COINS partners get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Longyearbyen) and accommodation under the same conditions as COINS students.
COINS does pay for accommodation and NISK attendance for students that attend both the COINS seminar and NISK, present a poster, wear a COINS t-shirt throughout the NISK conference, acknowledge COINS funding on their poster and document their contribution by two photos of them taken at the conference and by writing a one page report on their seminar participation that can be published.

All inquiries can be sent to info@coinsrs.no.

ECTS credits

Participating COINS Ph.D. can obtain ECTS credits that might be used towards the taught component of their Ph.D. programme.

Students need to enrol in “IMT6004 COINS Workshop” at NTNU to be formally allowed to get ECTS credits according to the requirements in the course description. (If you have taken IMT6004 before, you can enrol in “IMT6005 COINS Workshop II” (or “IMT6006 COINS Workshop III”).

Please indicate in your application for funding or by email to info@coinsrs.no if you are interested in enrolling in IMT6004. Students get a transcript from NTNU documenting their participation and then need to present it to their local COINS member institution. All consortium members agreed that participation in IMT600x would be recognised as being eligible for consideration towards the taught component of the Ph.D. programmes.

The topic of the summer school – secure implementation of cryptographic software – was chosen based on a poll among COINS students.

Six invited lecturers, sixteen students from COINS and SWITS, an international researcher, supervisors and an industry representative contributed to the programme. The topics of the lectures were:

• Lejla Batina, Radboud University: Attacks on embedded crypto implementations
• Justin Cappos, New York University: Securing software development for computationally weak devices
• Paris Kitsos, Digital IC dEsign and Systems Lab (DICES Lab), Computer and Informatics Engineering Dept (CIED), TEI of Western Greece, Patras, Greece: Detection of Hardware Trojans
• Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham: Protection of code execution using Intel SGX
• Peter Schwabe, Radboud University: Optimizing crypto software on embedded microcontrollers
• Alexandra Weber, Darmstadt University of Technology: Approaches to Reliable Side-Channel Security

An example of summer school report by Alexander Lindner (SWITS).

We had two and a half days packed with presentations, discussions, exchange of experiences, and networking opportunities for students doing research in information security in Norway and Sweden.

Thanks to all participants, you were an amazing group!

Registration forms: Registration for SWITS members – Registration for COINS members

Agenda

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (focus on COINS)

All sessions on Wednesday take place in room Dag Hammarskjöld

1130 Lunch & networking
1300-1430 Session COINS A: Invited presentation: Life after the Ph.D. [Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw, Yi-Ching Liao]
1430-1440 Break
1440-1530 Session COINS B
– “I attended an event with COINS funding. Here is what I learned.”
1530-1600 Fika
1600-1630 Session COINS C: Opportunities in the IT security sector after the Ph.D. [Davrondzhon Gafurov, Norwegian Directorate of eHealth; Lukas Rist, Symantec; Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård, FFI]
1630-1800 Session COINS D: Trial defence “Data Loss Detection and Prevention for Secure Cross-Domain Information Exchange”; candidate Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård, committee Slobodan Petrovic, Edgar Alonso Lopez Rojas
1800 Dinner
After dinner activity: Election of student representatives

Thursday 8 June 2017 (joint SWITS/COINS)

All sessions on Thursday take place in room Einar Gerhardsen unless stated otherwise

0900-1030 Session COINS E
– COINS 2017: Metochi summer school, ESORICS doctoral consortium; room: Einar Gerhardsen
– COINS 2018: Finse winter school, Metochi summer school, Ph.D. student seminar and NISK on Svalbard; room: Einar Gerhardsen
– COINS steering committee meeting; room: Tage Erlander 1

1030-1045 Break
1045-1130 Official Opening: Welcome, introduction, research group presentations (Chairs: Simone Fischer-Hübner, Hanno Langweg)
1130 Lunch
1230-1350 Session SWITS/COINS I – Forensics & IDS (Session chair: Slobodan Petrovic)

• Gunnar Alendal (NTNU), Security vulnerability research for use in digital forensics
• Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Digital Forensic Readiness in Critical Infrastructures: A case of substation automation in the power sector
• Chih-Yuan Lin (Linköping University), Timing-based Anomaly Detection in SCADA Networks
• Artem Voronkov (Karlstad University), Measuring the Usability of Firewall Rule Sets

1350-1400 Break
1400-1500 Session SWITS/COINS II – Distributed Systems Security (Session chair: Simin Nadjm-Tehrani)

• Xiaojie Zhu (University of Oslo), Framework for outsourcing location-based services
• Thomas Rosenstatter (Chalmers University of Technology), Vehicular Security: On Mapping Automotive Security Levels to System Requirements
• Romina Muka (NTNU), A critical review on Wireless Body Area Networks Security

1500-1530 Fika
1530-1630 Session SWITS/COINS III – Security & Identity Management (Session chair: Sonja Buchegger)

• Martin Brodin (University of Skövde), A framework for mobile device strategy
• Erik Bergström (University of Skövde) and Martin Lundgren(Luleå University of Technology), An emergent dynamic risk-based information classification process
• Stewart Kowalski (NTNU), Security Chains that bind us: A Mental Model Approach to Comparing Security Culture in Norway and Sweden

1630-1800 Parallel sessions SWITS/COINS IVa, IVb, IVc

• SWITS/COINS IVa – Panel: Ask the Professor (Session chairs: Andrii Shalaginov, Farzaneh Karegar); room: Einar Gerhardsen
• SWITS/COINS IVb – Focus group on mental models of redaction (Session chairs: Alaa Alaqra, Simone Fischer-Hübner); room: Tage Erlander 1
• SWITS/COINS IVc – Working group Cyber Security Challenge & Capture the Flag, preparation and courses (Session chairs Hanno Langweg, Felix Schuckert, Lothar Fritsch, Stewart Kowalski); room: Kungaterrassen
• Groups decide individually when to have breaks

1800 Dinner

After dinner: Visit of the Holmenkollen Ski museum (guided tour)

Friday 9 June 2017

All sessions on Friday take place in room Einar Gerhardsen

0900-0920 Summary of working groups results
0920-1040 Session SWITS/COINS V – Privacy (Session chair: Christian Rohner)

• Daniel Bosk (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), On sharing private calendars and scheduling meetings
• Alaa Alaqra (Karlstad University), Users’ perspectives of redacting medical documents
• Farzaneh Karegar (Karlstad University), Enabling Informed Decisions with Social Login
• Hamid Ebadi Tavallaei (Chalmers University of Technology), Local Differential Privacy Framework

1040-1050 Break
1050-1130 Session SWITS/COINS VI – Cryptography (Session Chair: Edgar Alonso Lopez Rojas)

• Lamya Abdullah (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen/Uniscon), Implementing Secure Multiparty Computation using Sealing
• Christopher Carr (NTNU), Scaling and fairness in modern cryptocurrencies

1130 Lunch

1230-1330 Session SWITS/COINS VII – Attacks and Protection (Session chair: Magnus Almgren)

• Ala Berzinji (Stockholm University), Cyber terrorism and Counter it on the Dark Web
• Linus Karlsson (Lund University), Bootstrapping trust
• Felix Schuckert (NTNU), Source Code Patterns of SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

1330-1340 Break
1340-1410 Session SWITS/COINS VIII – I moved from Norway to Sweden (or vice versa): Here is what I learned (Contributions by Lothar Fritsch, Stewart Kowalski, Edgar Lopez Rojas, and others)
1410-1430 Closing

• Summing up of seminar results, future of SWITS and COINS activities
• End of SWITS/COINS seminar 2017
• Coffee, departure, enjoy Oslo

To register, fill in the registration form:
Registration for SWITS members –
Registration for COINS members

Logistics

The seminar will take place at the Voksenåsen centre. Wednesday will be a COINS day, and Thursday+Friday will be a joint SWITS/COINS seminar. We have a number of rooms reserved at the centre. Once all rooms are booked, you need to find accommodation elsewhere in Oslo.

Useful links:

• http://www.voksenaasen.no
• http://www.visitoslo.com/en/transport/to-oslo/
• http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/59.97535/10.66545
• https://ruter.no

SWITS members pay a highly subsidised registration fee, thanks to MSB and COINS. kr. 400 per night for single accommodation, kr. 0 if you share a double room, kr. 0 if you organise accommodation by yourself. All payments need to be made by payment card at the Voksenåsen hotel reception desk. Please note that this also applies to those staying at Soria Moria, they also need to pay to Voksenåsen, not to Soria Moria.

COINS students and their supervisors get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Oslo) and accommodation.

All inquiries can be sent to info@coinsrs.no.

ECTS credits

Participating COINS Ph.D. students can obtain ECTS credits that might be used towards the taught component of their Ph.D. programme.

Students need to enrol in “IMT6004 COINS Workshop” at NTNU to be formally allowed to get ECTS credits according to the requirements in the course description. (If you have taken IMT6004 before, you can enrol in “IMT6005 COINS Workshop II” or “IMT6006 COINS Workshop III”.

Please indicate in your registration for funding or by email to info@coinsrs.no if you are interested in enrolling in IMT6004. Students get a transcript from NTNU documenting their participation and then need to present it to their local COINS member institution. All consortium members agreed that participation in IMT600x would be recognised as being eligible for consideration towards the taught component of the Ph.D. programmes.

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
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Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Olaf Owe, Martin Steffen, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Security For Communicating Object Systems
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Agenda

Sunday 27/11-2016, UiB Høyteknologisenteret, Thormøhlensgate 55 – be there on time, because the building is locked on Sunday

How to get to UiB

0930-1000 Welcome, introduction, presentation of participants
1000-1045 Lessons learned from doing a Ph.D. [Simona Samardziska]
1045-1130 Opportunities across universities: Cryptography, Models, Network Security, Privacy, Secure Software
1130-1145 Identified opportunities

1145-1200 Coffee break

1200-1220 Elevator pitches (chair: Ijlal Loutfi)
1220-1230 Participants report from Mass Surveillance workshop in Trondheim
1230-1315 Working groups, e.g. a) COINS/SWITS seminar in Oslo June 2017, b) IMT6007 COINS IT Security Exercise in 2017, c) If you had the choice, what would you include in your Ph.D. training (and what keeps you from doing it?)
1315-1330 Presentation of working groups results

1330-1430 Lunch (delivered by Peppe’s)

1430-1515 Life after the Ph.D. – Penetration Testing in Financial Institutions [Oleksandr Kazymyrov]
1515-1600 Presentations by participants

• Dmytro Piatkivskyi: Problems of the Lightning network or is Bitcoin scalable yet?
• Sergii Banin: Applying low-level features for malware dissection and detection
• Manish Shrestha: Measurable security and privacy for services on the Smart Electricity Grid

1600-1630 Coffee break

1630-1730 Panel – ask the professor/professional

1930 Dinner (Egon Kjøttbasaren, Vetrlidsallmenningen 2
Map with restaurant location

Monday 28/11-2016, Høgskolen i Bergen, Campus Kronstad, Inndalsveien 28, room E123

How to get to HiB
How to find room E123
The lecture hall is equipped with a projector and a Windows PC with USB port for presentations in PDF or PowerPoint format. An HDMI A full-size port (or an adaptor to HDMI A) is required if you want to use your own PC for presentation.

0930-1045 Simulated Ph.D. defence [candidate Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw + committee, 40’+10’+10’+15′]
1045-1130 Presentations by participants

• Felix Schuckert: Insecurity Refactoring
• Ashish Rauniyar: Crowdsourcing-based Disaster Management using Fog Computing in Internet of Things Paradigm
• Kamer Vishi: TBD

1130-1145 Election of COINS student representatives
1145-1200 Closing

1200-1300 Lunch (lunch tickets will be provided at seminar)

(1600-1730 COINS Steering Committee meeting, E507)

To register, fill in an application for funding (type of support: “Ph.D. student seminar”).
Please note that you can stay on in Bergen for NISK, too.

Logistics

The seminar will take place at UiB on Sunday and HiB on Monday. NISK will start at HiB on Tuesday morning. It is up to you where you book your accommodation. NISK has some recommended places on the conference homepage.

COINS students get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Bergen) and accommodation (COINS, NISK). Students without a regular paper, i.e. none or a poster, get coverage for the NISK conference fee; authors of full papers should get funding for the conference fee from their department.
NISK: You need to wear your COINS t-shirt and/or hoodie and upload a picture of you wearing it at the conference. You need to submit a 2 page travel report on your participation that can be shared with other COINS students and can be published on the COINS website after the event. If you present a poster at NISK, you send us a picture of you presenting the poster with a COINS logo instead of a travel report.

COINS supervisors get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Bergen) and accommodation. COINS does not pay for supervisor attendance or participation at NISK, but you are welcome to book your flight so that you can attend NISK with your own funding.

SWITS students and Ph.D. students from COINS partners get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Bergen) and accommodation. COINS does not pay for attendance or participation at NISK, but you are welcome to book your flight so that you can attend NISK with alternative funding.
COINS does pay additionally for accommodation and NISK attendance for students that attend both the COINS seminar and NISK, present a poster, wear a COINS t-shirt throughout the NISK conference, acknowledge COINS funding on their poster and document their contribution by two photos of them taken at the conference and by writing a one page report on their seminar participation that can be published.

All inquiries can be sent to info@coinsrs.no.

ECTS credits

Participating COINS Ph.D. can obtain ECTS credits that might be used towards the taught component of their Ph.D. programme.

Students need to enrol in “IMT6004 COINS Workshop” at NTNU to be formally allowed to get ECTS credits according to the requirements in the course description. (If you have taken IMT6004 before, you can enrol in “IMT6005 COINS Workshop II”.

Please indicate in your application for funding or by email to info@coinsrs.no if you are interested in enrolling in IMT6004. Students get a transcript from NTNU documenting their participation and then need to present it to their local COINS member institution. All consortium members agreed that participation in IMT600x would be recognised as being eligible for consideration towards the taught component of the Ph.D. programmes.

The topic of the summer school – authentication – was chosen by input from COINS students.

Five invited lecturers, sixteen students from COINS and SWITS, and two supervisors contributed to the programme. The topics of the lectures were:

• Mike Just, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: Usable security and authentication
• Paris Kitsos, Digital IC dEsign and Systems Lab (DICES Lab), Computer and Informatics Engineering Dept (CIED), TEI of Western Greece, Patras, Greece: Hardware authenticity – Detection of Hardware Trojans and PUFs
• Herbert Leitold, A-SIT, Austria: Federated identity management, STORK, eIDAS
• Ravi Borgaonkar, University of Oxford: Authentication and related threats in 2G/3G/4G networks
• Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA: Network Forensics – Challenges and Open Problems

Most of the participants had used the opportunity to pay a visit to ENISA in Athens on the way to the summer school on the island.

• An example of summer school report by Andrii Shalaginov.
• An example of summer school report by Herman Galteland.
• An example of summer school report by Martin Strand.
• An example of summer school report by Vasileios Gkioulos.

More than 70 people had registered, coming from all Swedish academic institutions that are active in Ph.D. training in the information security field. The spirit of the SWITS seminars encourages everyone to contribute with a presentation, leading to 35 talks within one and a half days. It gave a good impression of what is happening in IT security research in Sweden and of regional focus areas.

On the first day of the seminar, one of the three parallel workshop sessions was dedicated to cooperation between SWITS and COINS. We discussed research groups and the impact of the recently started IKTPLUSS projects on Ph.D. positions in Norway.

Of special interest to SWITS and COINS were:

• We again invite some SWITS students to join our COINS summer school. This year, the topic will be authentication.
• For 2017 we plan a joint SWITS/COINS Ph.D. seminar at Voksenåsen. It is a special place, dedicated from Norway to Sweden in gratitude for support during World War II. It will take place Thursday 8 June and Friday 9 June 2017. Save the date!

The seminar included a visit to the Military Aircraft Museum in Linköping where a dinner was held.

Agenda

Sunday 18/10-2015, KTH main campus Valhallavägen, building Osquars Backe 2, 5th floor, room 1537 – be there on time as the building is locked that day

0930-1000 Welcome, introduction, presentation of COINS+SWITS participants
1000-1130 Working groups, e.g. a) COINS/SWITS team for hack.lu CTF Tuesday/Wednesday, b) Student proposals for how to integrate 20 new students in COINS in 2016, c) Research collaboration based on topics, …
1130-1200 Presentation of working groups results

1200-1300 Lunch [Bullens catering]

1300-1345 From Ph.D. to industry [Ebenezer Paintsil]
1345-1430 E-health security [Mohamed Abomhara, Samson Gejibo, Leonardo Iwaya]

1430-1500 Coffee/cake [Bullens catering]

1500-1600 Panel discussion – ask the professor/professional
1600-1645 Computational forensics [Andrii Shalaginov, Ambika Chitrakar]

1645-1700 Break

1700-1830 Simulated Ph.D. defence [Samson Gejibo + committee]

2000 Dinner at King Tan, Sveavägen 47

Monday 19/10-2015, KTH main campus Valhallavägen, building Osquars Backe 2, 5th floor, room 1537

0930-1000 COINS+SWITS activities in 2016/2017
1000-1030 Election of COINS student representatives
1030-1045 Coffee break [Sandwiches, coffee]
1045-1115 Halfway to Ph.D.? What will happen next? [Oleksandr Kazymyrov]
1115-1130 Closing, ideas on how to give the new COINS students a good start in 2016
(In parallel: 1030-1200 COINS Academic Advisory Board meeting in room 4531 on same floor)

1130-1300 Lunch

1300 NordSec starts with keynote by Eugene H. Spafford from Purdue University on “Rethinking Cyber Security”

To register, fill in an application for funding (type of support: “Ph.D. student seminar”).
Please note that you can stay on in Stockholm for NordSec and CySeP, too.

Logistics

The seminar will take place at KTH on Sunday and Monday. NordSec will start at the same place on Monday after lunch. It is up to you where you book your accommodation. NordSec has some recommended places on the conference homepage.

COINS students get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Stockholm) and accommodation (COINS, NordSec, CySeP). Students without a regular paper, i.e. none or a poster, get coverage for the NordSec conference fee; authors of full papers should get funding for the conference fee from their department. CySeP participation is covered.
NordSec/CySeP: You need to wear your COINS t-shirt and/or hoodie and upload a picture of you wearing it at the conference. You need to submit a 2 page travel report on your participation that can be shared with other COINS students and can be published on the COINS website after the event. If you present a poster at either NordSec or CySeP, you send us a picture of you presenting the poster with a COINS logo instead of a travel report.

COINS supervisors get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Stockholm) and accommodation. COINS does not pay for supervisor attendance or participation at NordSec, but you are welcome to book your flight so that you can attend NordSec with your own funding.

SWITS and MyPhD students and Ph.D. students from COINS partners get coverage for travel (least expensive practical alternative t/r Stockholm) and accommodation. COINS does not pay for attendance or participation at NordSec, but you are welcome to book your flight so that you can attend NordSec with alternative funding.
COINS does pay additionally for accommodation and NordSec (or CySeP) attendance for students that attend both the COINS seminar and NordSec (or CySeP), present a poster, wear a COINS t-shirt throughout the NordSec conference, acknowledge COINS funding on their poster and document their contribution by two photos of them taken at the conference and by writing a one page report on their seminar participation that can be published.

All inquiries can be sent to info@coinsrs.no.

ECTS credits

Participating COINS Ph.D. can obtain ECTS credits that might be used towards the taught component of their Ph.D. programme.

Students need to enrol in “IMT6004 COINS Workshop” at HiG to be formally allowed to get ECTS credits according to the requirements in the course description.

Please indicate in your application for funding or by email to info@coinsrs.no if you are interested in enrolling in IMT6004. Students get a transcript from HiG documenting their participation and then need to present it to their local COINS member institution. All consortium members agreed that participation in IMT6004 would be recognised as being eligible for consideration towards the taught component of the Ph.D. programmes.

Here are the reflection reports:

• Mohamed Ali Saleh Abomhara
• Andrii Shalaginov

The topic of the summer school – cloud security – was chosen by poll among COINS students. The programme committee consisted of Ijlal Loutfi, Patrick Bours, and Hanno Langweg.

Six invited lecturers, twelve students, and two supervisors contributed to the programme. The topics of the lectures were:

• Andrei Costin: Security of Network Monitoring Systems (NMS) for Cloud and HPC. Hands-on assessment, analysis and countermeasures.
• Kaniz Fatema: Privacy in cloud environment
• Daniel Hedin: Cloud Application Security
• Zhiqiang Lin: Everything You Need to Know about VMI
• Sandra Scott-Hayward: SDN Security
• Sachin Shetty: Moving Target Defense and End-to-End Defense against Kernel Rootkits in a Cloud Environment

Most of the participants had used the opportunity to pay a visit to ENISA in Athens on the way to the summer school on the island.

Date and topic for the COINS summer school in 2016 will be determined early next year.

A bold idea is to have a COINS student defend his or her thesis during the summer school next year.

• An example of summer school report and ENISA visit by Andrii Shalaginov.
• An example of summer school report and ENISA visit by Nabeel Albahbooh.
• An example of summer school report by Mohamed Ali Saleh Abomhara.

We were welcomed by Vangelis Ouzounis, the Head of Unit Critical Information Protection. Despite the August holiday season in Greece, many of ENISA’s expert staff was on site and discussed hot topics in information security with us: securing cloud, smart cities, training and cybersecurity challenge, and cyber crisis cooperation. We had intensive discussions in the group as well as in one on one meetings. Hanno Langweg, Scientific Director of COINS, gave a presentation of COINS to ENISA.

Thanks for welcoming us in Athens and hosting us! It was a pleasure to be there and it made a lasting impression on students.

SWITS organised its annual seminar for the 15th time. It is held in a different place in Sweden each year, and this year it took place close to Västerås. 65 people from 18 institutions attended.

The first day started with an introduction of all IT security research groups in Sweden. Every group got some minutes to present its people, research focus etc. COINS was also given the possibility to present. Most of the remaining time was spent in sessions where PhD. students presented their research and status of their Ph.D. Presentations usually lasted 15 minutes each, including feedback and discussion. Presentations were grouped by topics, e.g. there were sessions on privacy, network security, information flow control etc.

In the afternoon of the first day, the audience split up into different working groups. One working group discussed cooperation between SWITS and COINS. We concluded with several ideas that we want to implement this year:

• Invite SWITS students to the COINS summer school on cloud security in Metochi in August. Daniel Hedin from SWITS is one of the lecturers.
• Invite SWITS students to the COINS Ph.D. student seminar in Stockholm 18-19 October 2015, sponsor travel+accommodation.
• For the week after the Ph.D. student seminar, and in parallel with NordSec, we envision to form a SWITS/COINS team with Ph.D. and master students to participate in the hack.lu CTF competition. An idea to have a team of professors in addition was dropped.
• A bold idea is to have a SWITS seminar in Norway instead of Sweden some time in the future, maybe as early as 2017.

After the formal programme, all participants were invited to the Sala Silver Mine with a long history.

The second day continued with student presentations and an invited talk by a representative of MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencis Agency), the sponsor providing financial support to the SWITS seminar.

Students: Answer her poll on http://foodl.org/foodle/COINS-Design-Change-54f47 and email your suggestions to Britta.

(The picture shows the current 2013 version of t-shirts.)