Day 1 Life as a Researcher 

 14/12/2020 

9am – 9:20am Plenary Session Welcome 

9:20- 12:00pm Parallel ACE Sessions  

9:20 am – 9:50 am 

Track 1

David Gerault (Surrey) 

Track 2

Vasileios Giotsas (Lancaster) 

DNS Security and Privacy

Track 3

Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial) 

Consumer IoT devices: Privacy Implications and Mitigations 

9:50 am – 10:20 am 

Fabio Pierazzi (King’s College) 

Trends and Challenges in ML for Malware Detection 

Richard James Thomas (Birmingham)  

Protecting our Critical National Infrastructure - Challenges in Developing Cross-Sector Solution 

10:20 am – 10:50am 

Rahime Belen Sağlam (Kent) 

Making technologies GDPR compliant or Making GDPR more technology friendly? 

Sam Ainsworth (Edinburgh University) 

How do you solve a problem like a Spectre? 

 Vesselin Velichkov (Edinburgh University) 

Recent Developments in Lightweight Cryptography 

Matt Smith (Oxford)

Fly Before You Buy: Using Simulation to Test Avionic Attacks   

Monica Kaminska (Oxford) 

State Responses to Offensive Cyber Operations 

10min Confort Break 

11:00 am – 11:30 am 

Francisco Aparicio Navarro (DMU) 

Cyber Threat Detection using Contextual Information 

Emiliano De Cristofaro (UCL) 

Understanding the Weaponization of the Web via Data-Driven Analysis 

Leo Freitas (Newcastle) 

ScubaTx - Organ Preservation Technologies 

11:30am – 12:00 pm 

Rizwan Randhawa (Northumbria) 

Rachel Player (RHUL) 

Homomorphic encryption: recent results and next steps 

Hamad Atamli (Southampton) / Erisa Karafili 

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm 

Subhash Lakshminarayana (WMG) 

On False Data Injection Attacks Against Power Grid State Estimation and Countermeasures 

Yulia Cherdantseva (Cardiff) 

Economic Metrics in Cybersecurity: Focus on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises 

Chloe Martindale (Bristol) 

Cryptography and quantum computers: where do we stand? 

12:30 pm –1: 15 pm Lunch Break 

1:15 pm-1:45 pm NCSC Research Problem Book  

Jeremy B (NCSC)  

Research in the National Cyber Security Centre 

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm Academic Career opportunities 

Ganna Pogrebna 

2:15 – 3:15 pm Successful bid writing 

Andrew Staphnill (Cardiff University) 

Research grant writing and how to sell your ideas 

Closing Remarks 

Day 2 Industry Day 

 15/12/2020 

9am – 9:20am Welcome and Introductions 

9:20am – 10 am  

Boris Taratine 

Principal Architect at Farsight Security Inc 

The Ticking Clock: 12 Fundamental Cyber Security Problems 

10:00 am – 10:30 am  

Peter Davies Thales  

Resilience by Serendipity 

10:30 am – 11:00 am  

 Wendell La Fortune  

ICS/OT Critical National Infrastructure Protection: Hardening the Environment 

Confort Break (15min) 

11:15 am – 12:00 pm  

Matilda Rhode, Senior Cybersecurity Research Engineer (Airbus) 

Cyber Security and AI: Challenges for Industry Adoption 

12pm –1pm Lunch 

1 pm – 2 pm Panel Discussion: Research with Industrial Relevance 

Matilda Rhode (Airbus) 

Jane Chappell 

Peter Burnap 

Carsten Maple 

Lizzie Coles-Kemp 

Chris Hankin 

Vladi Sassone 

Chaired by: Gregory Epiphaniou 

2pm – 2:30 pm Research Commercialisation & IP 

Sakir Sezer  

“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Commercialising Academic Research via a Technology Startup” (Queens) 

Comfort Break (15 min) 

2:45 – 3:15 pm  

Nadine Payne (Cardiff University) - University-Industry Engagement 

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm  

Jay Bal (Warwick) - Entrepreneurial skills for the future 

Closing Remarks 

Day 3 CTF Competition Day 

The capture the Flag (CTF) contest is designed to expose students to cybersecurity challenges in a variety of technical and socio-technical domains and engage them to problem-solving in defending cyber systems. The competition is structured in such a way that allows students to work in groups and attempt several challenges during the day. The challenges range from penetration testing to computer forensics and cryptography. These challenges are carefully crafted to promote collaboration and orchestration of different skills among the players in each team. 

 16/12/2020 

9 am – 9:10 am Opening Session 

9:10am – 9:20 am Rules of Engagement 

9:20 am – 9:35 am Joining Instructions 

9:40 am CTF Kick-Off 

11 am Comfort Break (15min) 

11:15 am Updates on Scoring 

CTF Engagement with Challenges (Continue) 

12pm – 1pm Lunch Break 

CTF Engagement with Challenges (Continue) 

4pm Comfort Break (15min) 

Announcement of Final Scores 

Announcement of Winners 

Closing Session