Program

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8:45 9:00

Welcome Message: Prof. Gail Murphy,  Vice-President Research & Innovation, UBC.
9:00 10:00

Keynote by Prof. Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University: “From password policies to adversarial machine learning, it’s all about the user”
10:00 10:30

Networking Break and Poster Session
10:30 11:15

Presentations: Security of Data Across Boundaries

session chair: Prof. Hasan Cavusoglu

  1. Cross-platform Data Integrity and Confidentiality with Graduated Access Control 
    1. By Puneet Mehrotra, Amanda Carbonari, Peter Chen, Ivan Beshastnikh, and Andrew Warfield.
  2. Beeswax: an end-to-end secure communication platform for web applications
    1. By Jean-Sebastien Legare, Robert Sumi, William A. Aiello. More info…
  3. Secure App-to-App IPC on Mobile Devices
    1. By Patrick Colp, William Aiello, Tim Deegan, Andrew Warfield.
11:15 12:00

Presentations: Privacy

session chair: Prof. Hasan Cavusoglu

  1. Contextuality behind Mobile Privacy
    1. By Primal Wijesekera, Arjun Baokar, Lynn Tsai, Joel Reardon, Serge Egelman, David Wagner, Konstantin Beznosov.
  2. Dancing in the Dark: Private Multi-Party Machine Learning in an Untrusted Setting
    1. By Clement Fung, Jamie Koerner, Stewart Grant, Ivan Beschastnikh
  3. Characterizing Social Insider Attacks on Facebook
    1. By Wali Usmani, Konstantin Beznosov, Ivan Beschastnikh, Diogo Marques, Tiago Guerreiro, Luís Carriço.
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12:00 12:05 Short Overview of Vancouver Security Special Interest Group (SecSIG)
12:05 13:30

Networking Lunch and Poster Session
13:30 14:30

Keynote: Gary Perkins, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Province of British Columbia

session chair: Prof. Ivan Beschastnikh
14:30 15:00

Presentations: IoT and Cyberphysical Systems

session chair: Prof. Ivan Beschastnikh

  1. DynPolAC: Dynamic Policy-based Access Control for IoT Systems
    1. By Mehdi Karimibiuki, Karthik Pattabiraman, Andre Ivanov . More info…
  2. ARTINALI: Dynamic Invariant Detection for Cyber-Physical System Security
    1. By Maryam Raiyat Aliabadi and Karthik Pattabiraman.
15:00 15:30

Networking Break and Poster Session
15:30 16:30

Presentations: Enterprise and Organizational Security

session chair: Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman

  1. Estimating Vulnerability Scores To Augment Enterprise Security Systems
    By Hassan Halawa, Matei Ripeanu, Konstantin Beznosov, and Alex Loffler. More info …
  2. Battle Testing Layer 2 of the Bitcoin Blockchain
    By Chen Feng , Victoria Lemieux  ,Yuwei Guo and Jinfeng Tong
  3. A Million Ways to DAO: Identifying and Preventing Smart Contract Security Risks
    By Victoria Lemieux, Stephen Pederson, Hudhaifah Zahid, Joe Thomas, Usman Mukaty, Stephen Thompson and Danielle Batista
  4. IT Risk Factor Disclosure and Stock Price Crash Risk
    By Victor Song, Hasan Cavusoglu, Gene Moo Lee, Mary Li Zhi Ma.
16:30 18:00

Networking Reception and Poster Session