Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Annual Conference 2021

The Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) is hosting a series of weekly events to mark Cybersecurity month in October featuring two panels, launch of a new public outreach talk series (CPITalks), and a jointly sponsored keynote.

CPI at University of Waterloo is part of the National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC) which is a joint initiative of cybersecurity and privacy researchers across Canada. 

The two panels will feature topics where CPI researchers are actively exploring in NCC.

In partnership with the National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC).


Thursday, October 7: 12 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. 

Do current privacy-enhancing technologies effectively protect people's privacy?

12 p.m. - Welcome and Introduction (N. Asokan, CPI Executive Director)

12:15 - 1:45 p.m. – Panel on privacy moderated by Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo)

Click here to watch this recording on Microsoft Stream. Please note it is only available to those with University of Waterloo login credentials

Floarian Kerschbaum

Florian Kerschbaum

University of Waterloo

Moderator

Mariana Raykova

Mariana Raykova

Google

Panelist

Anindya Sen

Anindya Sen

University of Waterloo

Panelist

Arthur Berrill

Arthur Berrill

Royal Bank of Canada

Panelist

Konstantin Beznosov

Konstantin Beznosov

University of British Columbia

Panelist


Thursday, October 14: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

Challenges and Future of Software Security

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Mei Nagappan

University of Waterloo

Moderator

Karim Ali 

University of Alberta

Panelist

Steven Ding

Queen's University

Panelist

Glenn Wurster

BlackBerry

Panelist

Yousra Aafer

University of Waterloo

Panelist


Thursday, October 21: 4 to 7:30 p.m.

4 to 5:45 p.m. - Poster session

Poster Title Presenter(s)
Dissecting Residual APIs in Custom Android ROMs Zeinab El-Rewini
Is Differential Privacy the Right Defence against Membership
Inference Attacks?
Thomas Humphries
Stegozoa: Enhanced covert communications over WebRTC video streams Diogo Barradas
The “Quantum Annoying” Property of Password-Authenticated Key
Exchange Protocols
Ted Eaton
Feature Grinding: Efficient Backdoor Sanitation in Deep Neural
Network
Nils Lucas
You May Also Like ... Privacy: Recommendation Systems Meet PIR Adithya Vadapalli
Constant-weight PIR: Single-round Keyword PIR via Constant-weight
Equality Operators
Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi
PRSONA: Private Reputation Supporting Ongoing Network Avatars Stan Gurtler
Verifying Verified Code Siddharth Priya
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal: Model Extraction Attacks Against Image Translation Generative Adversarial Networks Vasisht Duddu & Sebastian Szyller
Finding Specification Blind Spots with Fuzz Testing Meng Xu
PACStack: an Authenticated Call Stack Hans Liljestrand

In the future, more sessions may be added.

More detail about this session is available on the CPI: Poster session 2021 page


6 to 7:30 p.m. - Inaugural CPI Talk: Public Outreach Talk Series

Privacy Research that Matters

More detail about this session is available on the CPI Talks: Public Outreach Talks series page

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Ian Goldberg 

University of Waterloo

Jen Whitson

University of Waterloo


Thursday, October 28: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Investigating Targeted Espionage: Methods, Findings, Implications

Joint Keynote at IEEE ISTAS '21, co-sponsored by CPI

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Ron Deibert

Citizen Lab

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

University of Toronto