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 Kieron Turk (kieron.turk 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

• Federico Barbero, University of Cambridge: Transcending Transcend: Revisiting Malware Classification with Conformal Evaluation
• Erik van de Sandt, Dutch National Police and University of Bristol: Hansa Market, Cyberbunker, and Encrochat: The Security Practices of Organized Crime
• Sergei Skorobogatov, University of Cambridge: Teardown of encrypted USB Flash drives
• Damon McCoy, New York University: Cybersecurity for Democracy: Providing Independent Auditing Frameworks for Platform Accountability
• Eugene Bagdasaryan, Cornell Tech: Blind Backdoors in Deep Learning
• Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University: Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information
• Roei Schuster, Cornell Tech: Resilient Machine Learning: A Systems-Security Perspective
• Stephane Baele, University of Exeter : Super-Posters in Extremist Forums
• Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus: It's not only the dark web: Distributed surface web marketplaces

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