Center for Information Security and Trust

About

The ITU Center for Information Security and Trust (ITU CISAT) provides a multidisciplinary research environment, delivering knowledge and capacity necessary to tackle modern cybersecurity challenges from a societal, legal, organizational, and technical point of view. ITU CISAT draws on expertise in information security, computer science, social science, law and philosophy, covering the range of basic research in security science to applied research in systems-building and analysis of the implications to society.

Research

ITU CISAT conducts research in information security, in terms of:

Construction

Reliability, security by design, language-based security, continuous deployment

Verification

Adversary-, capability- and risk-modeling, risk mitigation, cyber attack detection, theorem proving, model checking

Organizations

Organizational effects, including trustability, governance, and legislation

Society

Human perceptions of trust, ethics and privacy, including psychological, philosophical and cognitive aspects

Education

ITU CISAT provides research-based multidisciplinary Bachelor's and Master's programs within information security in order to meet the need for cybersecurity experts. ITU CISAT students acquire competencies enabling them to make security decisions as suppliers and acquirers of software, to construct secure software, to assess security risks, to perform penetration testing, and more.

ITU CISAT also strengthens the competences of professionals. In 2019, the center will start up two new projects that will support Danish companies to upgrade their IT security; CSSME Courses (Cyber Security courses for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) and CIDI (Cybersecure IoT in Danish Industry). Both projects are funded by Industriens Fond.

Team

Steering Committee

Carsten Schürmann

Professor

Computer Science

Head of ITU CISAT

Louise Barkhuus

Associate Professor

Computer Science

Steffen Dalsgaard

Associate Professor

Business IT

PhD Student

Ieva Daukantas

PhD Student

Working Groups

CISAT working groups are a good way for external parterners, including industry and governmental and non-governmental organizations to interact with CISAT on topics that are becoming increasingly relevant for securing critical infrastructure systems. For more information about each working group, how to join them, please visit the Working Group's webpage.

WG-AAI WG-DEMTECH WG-IOT WG-PRIV

CISAT Talks

Date	Time	Title	Speaker	Location
11-Jan	15:00 - 16:00	FAST: Fair Auctions via Secret Transactions	Lorenzo Gentile	Online
08-Mar	15:00 - 16:00	"It's Not Something They Really Care About": A Study on Security and Privacy Practices in Danish Companies	Asmita Dalela	Online
23-Mar	15.00 - 16.00	Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers	Bruce Schneier	Online
12-Apr	15.00 - 16.00	PESTO: Proactive Secure Distributed SSO, or How to Trust a Hacked Server	Carsten Baum, Aarhus University	Online
19-Apr	15.00 - 16.00	Research on illicit online markets, mainly for drugs and other goods	Rasmus Munksgaard, Aalborg University	Online
26-Apr	15.00 - 16.00	Modelling Human Threats in Socio-Technical Systems	Rosario Giustolisi, ITU	Online
3-May	15.00 - 16.00	Certifying the True Error: Machine Learning in Coq with Verified Generalization Guarantees	Gordon Stewart, Ohio University	Online
10-May	15.00 - 16.00	CertRL: Formalizing Convergence Proofs for Value and Policy Iteration in Coq	Koundinya Vajjha, University of Pittsburgh	Online
17-May	15.00 - 16.00	X-Men: A Mutation-Based Approach for the Formal Analysis of Security Ceremonies	Dr. Diego Sempreboni, King’s College London	Online
31-May	9.00 - 10.00	Silas: High-Performance Computing, Automated Reasoning and Machine Learning at the Core of Trustworthy AI	Dr. Zhe Hou, Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Australia	Online
14-June	15.00 - 16.00	"Now I'm a bit angry:" Individuals' Awareness, Perception, and Responses to Data Breaches that Affected Them	Dr. Peter Mayer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Online
23-August	15.00 - 16.00	Software-Defined Data Protection: Low Overhead Policy Compliance at the Storage Layer is Within Reach!	Zsolt István, ITU	Online
30-August	15.00 - 16.00	Hardware Lottery and the Perils of Computer Security	Dr. Tanvir Arafin	Online
13-September	15.00 - 16.00	Improving proof assistant user productivity using language models	Karl Palmskog, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Pengyu Nie, University of Texas at Austin, USA	Online
27-September	15.00 - 16.00	Voters perception of Trust in Risk Limiting Audits	Asmita Dalela, ITU	Online
4-October	9.00 - 10.00	Modular Synthesis of Certifying STV Counting Programs	Emeritus Professor Rajeev Gore, Australian National University	Online
11-October	15.00 - 16.00	Mt. Random: Multi-tiered Randomness Beacons	Bernardo Machado David, ITU	Online
18-October	15.00 - 16.00	Ai2: Safety and robustness certification of neural networks with abstract interpretation	Dana Drachsler Cohen, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion, Israel	Online
22-October	15.00 - 16.00	TBA	Mathias Oliver Valdbjørn Jørgensen, MSc, ITU	Online
8-November	15.00 - 16.00	Towards Auditable AI Systems	Christian Berghoff and Arndt von Twickel, technical officers at the Federal Office for Information Security in Bonn, Germany	Online

Contact Ieva Daukantas to propose a talk.

Contact

Carsten Schürmann

Professor, Head of ITU CISAT

(+45) 26 39 36 06

carsten@itu.dk

Jari Kickbusch

Research Communicator

(+45) 22 48 28 27

jark@itu.dk

ITU CISAT is part of the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), located at Rued Langgaards Vej 7, DK-2300