{"id":3418,"date":"2022-11-16T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2023-01-05T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:41:04","slug":"icss-hosts-the-24th-international-conference-on-information-and-communications-security-icics-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2022\/11\/16\/icss-hosts-the-24th-international-conference-on-information-and-communications-security-icics-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"iCSS hosts the 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, iCSS hosted the<\/span> 24<\/span>th<\/span> International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2022)<\/span> at the <\/span>main campus of the University of Kent, in Canterbury, Kent, UK.<\/span> The conference took place over four days, from 5 to 8 September, and hosted a number of presentations and demonstrations, both in-person and online.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first keynote<\/span> of the conference<\/span>, <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Future Challenges in Security Engineering<\/span>\u2019<\/span>, was presented by <\/span>Professor<\/span>Ross Anderson<\/span>, Professor of Security Engineering at <\/span>University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, U<\/span>K.<\/span> In this talk, Professor Anderson discussed <\/span>how the right to software updates for goods with digital elements will <\/span>a<\/span>ffect durable safety-critical goods with software and network connections, like cars and medical devices.<\/span> If a customer expects software updates for a reasonable time period after purchase, how will teams support security patches and safety for 10+ years, for example?<\/span> This challenge becomes more complex when taking into account machine learning components, as well as associated costs and practical design limits.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Our second keynote, \u2018<\/span>Underspecified Foundation Models Considered Harmful<\/span>\u2019<\/span>, was delivered by <\/span>Dr<\/span> Nicholas<\/span>Carlini<\/span>, <\/span>a research scientist at Google Brain<\/span>. <\/span>Dr <\/span>Carlini<\/span>argued that, while neural networks are commonly trained to behave as a \u201cfoundation\u201d for future models, this comes at a cost to their security.<\/span> Although this method may benefit accuracy, <\/span>unlabe<\/span>l<\/span>led dataset<\/span>s<\/span> could, for example, be \u201cpoisoned\u201d to perform various attacks.<\/span> To address these challenges, new categories of defences would be required, that can sim<\/span>ultaneously allow models to train on large datasets while also being robust to adversarial training data<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>The third keynote, \u2018<\/span>Toward Practical Privacy Protections for Blockchain Networks<\/span>\u2019, was presented by <\/span>Dr<\/span> Guang<\/span> Gong<\/span>, <\/span>a <\/span>professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo, Canada<\/span>.<\/span> In this talk, Dr Gong examined the current research in permissionless and permissioned blockchain systems and their potential for applications where value or data is transferred, stored and processed<\/span>. Dr Gong <\/span>also <\/span>provided an example of <\/span>Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge <\/span>(<\/span>zk<\/span>–<\/span>SNARK<\/span>)<\/span> schemes.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In addition to the three keynotes, at the Conference there were<\/span> a total of 11 <\/span>technical <\/span>sessions, each of which included 3-4 papers.<\/span> Visit our website<\/span><\/a> for more information on the programme, or watch the <\/span>recorded presentations on YouTube<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s event also saw winners of six awards:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Best Paper Award<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>Maliciously Secure Multi-Party PSI with Lower Bandwidth and Faster Computation<\/span><\/a>,\u201d<\/span> authored by Zhi <\/span>Qiu<\/span>, Kang Yang, Yu <\/span>Yu<\/span> and <\/span>Lijing<\/span>Zhou<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>Best Student Paper<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>Lightweight and Practical Privacy-Preserving Image Masking in Smart Community<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>\u201d<\/span> authored by Zhen Liu, <\/span>Yining<\/span> Liu and <\/span>Weizhi<\/span>Meng<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>Best Presentation Award<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>Privacy-aware Split Learning Based Energy Theft Detection for Smart Grids<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>\u201d<\/span> authored by Arwa Alromih, John A. Clark and Prosanta Gope, presented by Arwa Alromih<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>Best Artifact Award<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>DeepC2: AI-powered Covert Command and Control on OSNs<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>\u201d<\/span> authored by Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, Xiang Cui, <\/span>Jie<\/span> Yin, <\/span>Jiaxi<\/span> Liu, Di Wu and <\/span>Qixu<\/span> Liu, demonstrated by Zhi Wang<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>Best Poster Award<\/span>:<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Image-based Neural Network Models for Malware Traffic Classification using PCAP to Picture Conversion<\/span>,<\/span>\u201d<\/span> (<\/span>Paper<\/span><\/a>)<\/span> authored by Georgios <\/span>Agrafiotis<\/span>, <\/span>Eftychia<\/span> Makri<\/span>, <\/span>Ioannis<\/span> Flionis<\/span>, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos <\/span>Votis<\/span>, <\/span>Dimitrios<\/span> Tzovaras<\/span> and Nikolaos <\/span>Tsampieris<\/span>, presented by Georgios <\/span>Agrafiotis<\/span> and Nikolaos <\/span>Tsampieris<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>Best Demo Award<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>VEREFOO: an automated framework for virtual firewall configuration,<\/span>\u201d <\/span>(<\/span>Paper 1<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Paper 2<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>authored by Daniele Bringhenti, Guido <\/span>Marchetto<\/span>, Riccardo <\/span>Sisto<\/span> and <\/span>Fulvio<\/span> Valenza<\/span>, presented by Daniele Bringhenti<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n

Congratulations to all of the <\/span>a<\/span>ward winners!<\/span><\/p>\n

iCSS were delighted to welcome so many visitors to Kent and thank the authors<\/span>,<\/span> the <\/span>presenters<\/span> and everyone who helped to organise and run the day<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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