Security Group

Security Seminar Series

The Security Research Group organises the Security Seminar Series with invited speakers on selected topics of broad interest. These seminars are open for attendance to anyone interested in security research, not only to members of the university.

The talks take place on Tuesdays, 14:00, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the William Gates Building during term (unless otherwise noted or arranged). They are 45 to 60 minutes long, typically followed by a lively discussion. Attendance ranges from 20 to 40 people, although the room can accommodate up to 130.

To receive email announcements of upcoming talks, subscribe to the cl-security-seminars mailing list or request email reminders from talks.cam.ac.uk.

For arranging speaking engagements email Hridoy Sankar Dutta (hridoy.dutta at cl.cam.ac.uk). (Information for speakers)

Upcoming talks

For the complete current timetable, please see the entry on the talks.cam.ac.uk website.
(Click title of talk for abstract and further details).

Recordings of recent talks

• Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge: Algorithms and the criminal justice system: promises and challenges in deployment and research
• Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Université de Montréal: On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime
• Ben Collier, University Of Edinburgh: Influence Policing: Mapping the Rise of Strategic Communications and Digital Behaviour Change within UK Law Enforcement and Security Services
• Evani Radiya-Dixit, Minderoo Centre for Tech & Democracy: A Sociotechnical Audit: Assessing Police use of Facial Recognition
• Zygmunt A Lozinski, IBM: The Security of Post-Quantum Telco Networks, or changing 10 billion door-locks in 197 countries
• Harmonie Toros, University of Kent: Bad men, good men, and loving women: Gender Constructions in the UK’s Online Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) Campaign
• Ilia Shumailov, University of Oxford: Towards Meaningful Stochastic Defences in Machine Learning
• Oleh Stupak, University of Cambridge: Secure and efficient networks
• Leonie Tanczer, University College London: Technology-Facilitated Abuse: The Role of Tech in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence

Archive of past talks

• talks@cam – up to date abstracts since 2006
• our own seminar archive – abstracts since 1992, slides for some talks (updated in batches so may still lack most recent talks)
• VHS recordings of many pre-2002 talks are in the CL library

Security Group meetings

The Security Research Group also has regular group meetings in room FW11 every Friday at 16:00, where group members take turns in presenting their own research, recent publications and discuss matters of general interest.

Other seminars

The Computer Laboratory also runs a departmental Wednesday Seminar, NetOS Seminar series and others (full departmental seminar timetable).

Security seminars at other universities:

• Cyber Security & Privacy Seminar Series – online seminar series organized jointly by several UK universities
• University College London
• Royal Holloway – London
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• CERIAS, Purdue University
• Stanford Security Laboratory