Venue: 10.08.03 (Building 10, Floor 8, Room 3)
Presentations:Student name: Shaahin Madani
Title: Privacy-Preserving Internet Mail Outsourcing
Abstract: "Computation under
encryption has only recently been made practical, and the generic
solutions are yet to be made efficient. In order to develop an efficient
system, one must formally define and fix the desired functions, and
then create a set of protocols to enable secure computation of these
functions. That is to trade off the generality of secure computation and
make it application-specific, in order to achieve a practical
efficiency. In this work we focus on securing the computation necessary
for one of the most important Internet applications, the Internet Mail,
aiming to protect it against untrusted outsource providers. In
the current practice, outsourcing the Internet Mail system is in fact
outsourcing a database of sensitive puretext data to an outsource
provider, which has significant negative impacts on the privacy of a
large number of individuals.
Student Name: Heshan Dhanushka Kumarage
Title: Distributed Anomaly Detection for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract: Modern
infrastructure increasingly depends on large computerized systems for
their reliable operation. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) systems are being deployed to monitor and control large scale
distributed infrastructures such as power generation and transmission
systems, water treatment and distribution systems as well as oil and gas
pipeline systems. A recent trend is to incorporate Wireless Sensor
Networks to sense and gather data. These networks comprise of a
distributed set of nodes that collaborate to sense and communicate data
through a set of multi-hop connections. Therefore, such networks provide
a more flexible, scalable and low cost solution for sensing in
industrial process control systems. However, due to the broadcast nature
of the network and inherent limitations in the sensor nodes themselves,
they are vulnerable to different types of security attacks. Given the
critical aspects of the underlying infrastructure it is an extremely
important research challenge to provide effective methods to detect
malicious activities on these networks. The focus of this research is to
propose a robust and scalable mechanism that aims to detect malicious
anomalies accurately and efficiently with respect to the underlying
network
Student Name: Christopher Meli
Title: Seamless End-To-End HealthCare Inter-institutional Information Flow and Coordination Management
Details regarding Confirmation of Candidature can be found here
Seminar Organisation
Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Sebastian Sardina, the seminar co-ordinator.