Seminar Security and Privacy in Information Technology

(3 SWS, 4 CP)

This seminar addresses current research in the context of security and privacy in information technology. Each participant will write a paper of 7 to 9 pages about a selected topic and present the results to the group. Course participants will get a short list of publications from relevant journals, conferences and books and have to do some additional research.

Participants will learn how to dive into a scientific topic, prepare a presentation similar to what is required at a scientific conference and lead a scientific discussion. 

A complete list of topics will be announced starting the new semester. Own topics can be proposed as well.

Topics (preliminary):

• Privacy in Big Data
• Privacy and Security in Browsers
• Privacy in Online-Social Networks
• Identity Management directions
• Web Identity and Single Sign-On (OpenID, OAuth, BrowserID, WebID)
• JavaScripts Vulnerabilities
• Security Analysis of HTML5
• Automated Context Recognition
• Differential Privacy
• Security and Privacy Risks in Smart Grids
• Privacy-, Fairness-, and Discrimination-aware Data Mining and Machine Learning Approaches

This seminar is taught by the members of the SIT Research Group.

Contact:  Martin Stopczynski

Summer 2012

Interested students need to apply via TUCan (Module: 20-00-0646-se), by April 25th.

The seminar is supposed to be a block seminar which means that all presentations will be held on 1 or 2 days end of the semester. The dates will be discussed in the Kick-Off Meeting on 25.04.2012 at 16:15.

Location: S4 14 (CASED) | 4.3.01

Moodle Page: SecPrivInSIT