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Seminar on Cloud Security at the Canadian Embassy

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On Friday, May 13th, Stewart Kowalski participated in the Opentext Expert Panel on Cloud Security at the Canadian Embassy. The topic of the seminar was “Managing Content in the Cloud” which was presented by Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at OpenText, and followed by comments and analysis by the Expert Panel. Read more details and find the programme of this event in the announcement.

Deus/Diabolus Ex Machina? – Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Organization and Management

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This is an open seminar and all are welcome!

Time: 19th May, 15:00-19:30
Place: DSV Forum, lecture hall A

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Summary

Automatisation (i.e. AI) can be used both to defend and to attack information systems and social networks. Students from the 2010/2011 Master Program in Information and Communication Systems Security (ICSS) will debate if an artificial intelligence system should be used for access control at a company. The union at the company is against using such a system and claims that workers have the right to know if they are talking to a human or a machine when they log on to an IT system.
Listen how future information security managers debate about potential cyber security problems of the 21st century.

Following the student debates at 17:15, Robert Hoffmann (DSV) will present current projects at the department that use artificial intelligence for teaching.

At 17:30 Markus Huber (former ICSS student, now working as a researcher at Secure Business Austria) will present his research on using AI techniques to trick and attack users on social networks, such as Facebook.

After the presentations the Swedish Association for Information Security (SAISec) will have a wine and cheese gathering to celebrate professor Louise Yngström’s more than 30 years of teaching holistic security at DSV.

Agenda

15:00-17:00 ICSS students debate on using an artificial intelligence (AI) system for access control in a company
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-17:30 Using artificial intelligence to teach risk analysis
(Robert Hoffmann, DSV)
17:30-18:30 Social network security and automated social engineering attacks
(Markus Huber, Secure Business Austria)
18:30-19:30 Swedish Association for Information Security (SAISec) celebrates more than 30 years of security with professor Louise Yngström

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EnRiMa Workshop held in Stockholm

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The EnRiMa FP7 project held a two-day workshop at DSV  April 11-12. Project partners from Austria, Norway, Spain and Great Britain discussed the upcoming decision support system that will support minimizing the energy consumption of public buildings. The project is now at a stage where more detailed requirements for the system will be described. Present from DSV were Janis Stirna, Martin Henkel,  Naghmeh Aghaee, Peter Majlender and Rodolfo Candia.

For more information on the EnRiMa project, go to http://www.enrima-project.eu/

 

Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius visits SYSLAB

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‘Monty’ Widenius, founder of the world’s most widely used RDBMS — MySQL — visited SYSLAB today.

MySQL was recently aquired by Oracle Corporation with the consequence that the way by which its produced and marketed is rapidly changing.

Currently Monty heads a company called Monty Program that organises the development of MariaDB, a drop-in replacement for MySQL. The production of MariaDB follows the old MySQL tradition of agility, to be free and open source (yes, there is a difference!), and providing for the needs of users.

The half Monty

Discussions revolved around how MariaDB could be used in the courses given at SYSLAB and how closer collaborations could be established.

It was a very pleasurable and informative meeting.

Meeting of IT Management Group with Professor Jerry Luftman

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On March 22, 2011 the IT Management group has discussed their research work with Professor Jerry Luftman. In the meeting we had a fruitful discussion about how should we develop our research and also about possibilities to cooperate in the research area of Business-IT Alignment. Professor Jerry Luftman has shown to have an interest in our research work and has given us many good ideas to explore. A picture from this meeting with Professor Jerry Luftman you could find below.

Seminar with Prof. Berner Lindström

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Professor Berner Lindström and Niklas Karlsson, PhD student visited K2-lab on Friday, March 18th. Prof. Lindström presented an overview of research activities at The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS) , Gothenburg university. We have many research interests in common in areas such as mobile learning, virtual learning environments, digital literacy, etc.

The WIDE project at K2Lab has started collaborating with Lindström and Karlsson, in a study concerning the use of social bookmarking and tag clouds in education. We are looking forward to analyzing some very interesting data together!

A workshop on value modeling and business ontologies

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The 5th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies (VMBO 2011) was arranged 7-8 February by the University of Ghent, Belgium. This excellent workshop drew about 30 participants where DSV was represented by myself (Birger), Paul Johannesson, and Maria Bergholtz.

More info about it can be found at the workshop’s official home page. More info about the VMBO series of workshops can be found by clicking through the links at this page.