Information Security Research Group

2023

December 2023 – Abasi-amefon Obot Affia defended her PhD dissertation on “A Framework and Teaching Approach for IoT Security Risk Management” at the University of Tartu
December 2023 – Mari Seeba presented the PhD project's interim results on evaluating organisations' information security level with F4SLE at the Estonian medical sector (hospitals) sector-based seminar organized by NCSC-EE in Tallinn.
November/December 2023 – Raimundas Matulevičius gave an invited research presentation on Security Risk Management in Autonomous Connected Systems at the Workshop on Security Research Challenges of Autonomous Connected Systems (SRACS), Lyon, France
November 2023 – Vjatšeslav Antipenko has conducted an extensive Blockchain training seminar at the Eesti Töötukassa
November 2023 – Mari Seeba gave a presentation, Organizations Security Level Evaluation. An ongoing pilot project in Estonia and South Moravia (Czech Republic), at the seminar with the National Cyber and Information Security Agency of the Czech Republic (NUKIB) in MUNI, Brno, Czech Republic.
November 2023 – Raimundas Matulevičius gave a presentation at the SEEBLOCKS projects #webinar Blockchain Education & Standardisation: Navigating (beyond) the European Landscape, URL: https://youtu.be/HrzHIZ8JKSA?si=NHWWJeKAsIhypIn0&t=3441
October 2023 – Raimundas Matulevičius gave a presentation at RIA CyberMeetUp, Tallinn, URL: https://youtu.be/Q9dk01rmSEk?si=7feZORTCT6OD6rxv&t=1301
October 2023 – Mari Seeba presented the PhD project's interim results on evaluating organisations' information security level with F4SLE at the Estonian transport sector-based seminar organized by NCSC-EE in Tallinn.
October 2023 – Mari Seeba presented the PhD project's interim results on evaluating organisations' information security level with F4SLE at the sector-specific seminar of Estonian water supply and district heating service providers organized by NCSC-EE in Tallinn.
October 2023 – Mari Seeba presented the interim results of the PhD project on evaluating the information security level of organizations with F4SLE at the Estonian cyber security community meeting organized by CERT-EE in Nelijärvi, Estonia.
October 2023 – Vjatšeslav Antipenko gave a talk on Cyber security success of an industrial company in the age of AI at AIRE club in Narva, Estonia
September 2023 – Raimundas Matulevičius gave an invited tutorial on Mastering Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at Komputerininkų Dienos in Kaunas, Lithuania
September 2023 – Mari Seeba gave a presentation Organizations Security Level Evaluation. An ongoing pilot project in Estonia and South Moravia (Czech Republic), at the online meeting of the NLO EU Cybersecurity Index subgroup at the ENISA meeting.
September 2023 – Mubashar Iqbal gave a presentation of the research paper on Towards Healthcare Digital Twin Architecture 22nd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2023), Ascoli Piceno, Italy
August 2023 – Raimundas Matulevičius gave a presentation of the research paper on A Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure for X-Road at SP2I at ARES 2023
August 2023 – Mari Seeba gave a presentation of the research paper on Security Level Evaluation with F4SLE at SP2I at ARES 2023
June, 2023 – Mubashar Iqbal gave a tutorial on Blockchain DApps with AI and Cyber Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Development and Implementation at 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Helsinki, Finland
June, 2023 – Mariia Bakhtina gave a presentation on the PhD project Towards More Secure and Data Protective Intelligent Infrastructure Systems at Doctoral Consortium at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2023, Zaragoza, Spain
14.June, 2023 -- Küberinnovatsioon 2023 Tartu , conference Website
25.May, 2023 -- Raimundas Matulevicius participated in RCIS 2023 Conference Panel to discuss Trends and Challenges in Information Science for a Connected World.
11. May 2023 -- Mari gave a public presentation at Edufest Tallinn Ülemiste City about information security evaluation
4-5.May 2023 -- Raimundas Matulevicius attended the 6th CHAISE partnership meeting organised by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.
27. April 2023 -- via Zoom Mari Seeba introduced her PhD project to MUNI university research seminar. Topic: Development of information security management standard and evaluation instrument, Estonian case
20. April 2023 -- Mari Seeba gave a guest lecture about security standards and security level evaluation.
27-31.March 2023 -- Mariia Bakhtina presents the paper On The Shift to Decentralised Identity Management in Distributed Data Exchange Systems at the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023).
22.March 2023 -- Raimundas Matulevičius participated in a panel on Foreign influence & malign activities in and through cyberspace at the Baltic Defence College.
10-11.March 2023 -- Raimundas Matulevicius attended the Colloque International de ‘ISD de Sousse in Tunisia, where he gave a keynote talk on Privacy in Digitized Systems.
9. March 2023 -- Mari Seeba presented at Critical Infrastructure Cyber Defence Information Day security standard implementation steps and security evaluation role during that process.
23.February 2023 -- Raimundas Matulevicius gives a seminar talk on On Security of Intelligent Infrastructures at the PICS forum, Skövde, Sweden.
22.February 2023 -- newsletter: Estonia and South Moravia are teaming up to support the European Union's safe transition to a digital society
02.February 2023 -- Raimundas Matulevicius gave a seminar talk on CyberPhish: Safeguarding against Phishing in the Age of 4th Industrial Revolution at the Lithuanian Professionals Club in Tallinn.
26-27.January, 2023 -- InfoSec team participates in the kick-off meeting of the CHESS project, in Brno, Czech Republic.
27.January 2023 -- Mari Seeba participated in the podcast about Estonian Information Security standard Kriitiline intsident: Miks on GDPRi vaktsiiniks kutsutav E-ITS oluline?

2022

10.December 2022 -- Mari Seeba gave a presentation „Eesti Infoturbe standardi olulised terminid koolidele" (Estonian Information security Standard Important terms for schools) in the Cybersecurity web-conference "Sõnaraamat ja kübermöll" (link)
28-29.November 2022 -- InfoSec team participates in the general meeting of CHAISE project.
23 November, 2022 - Mari Seeba - a panelists at Küberturvalisuse aastakonverents 2022 (Cybersecurity annual conference 2022, organised by Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications) on Riskijuhtimine ja infoturve dünaamiliste ohtude maailmas (Risk management ja information security in the world of dynamic threats), video.
14 October, 2022 - Raimundas Matulevicius gave a seminar on BLOCKCHAIN - Teaching and Implementation
13.October -- Multiplier event of the CyberPhish project
- Participants learnt what Phishing attacks are, how to mitigate and handle them.
- We will also discuss the project's outcome, training material developed, tests training curriculum, e-learning environment, and security/phishing simulations.
  - Program: EST, ENG.
30 September, 2022 -- Doctoral defence: Mubashar Iqbal Reference Framework for Managing Security Risks Using Blockchain
- More info in English and Estonian
- Doctoral thesis available here
29 September, 2022 -- InfoSec presents the Bachelor/Master thesis research topics at the UniTartuCS day
23 September, 2022 - Mariia Bakhtina has given a talk Towards Self-Sovereign Identity in X-Road at the X-Road Community event 2022
13-15 September, 2022 - BPM 2022 Blockchain Forum, Münster, Germany
- Conference program (Blockchain Forum on 14-15.September)
8-9 September, 2022 -- the InfoSec team members (Peets and Matulevičius) participated at the CyberPhish transnational meeting in Cyprus.
30.August, 2022 -- Information Security research group seminar
23 August, 2022 -- SP2I 2022: International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures, Vienna, Austria
- Workshop program
18 August, 2022 -- Mari Seeba made a presentation at ISACA Estonian Chapter monthly seminar
15-17 August, 2022 -- ESSCASS 2022
15 July, 2022 -- the third CHAISE newsletter
8 July, 2022 -- the InfoSec team members (Affia and Matulevičius) participated at the CyberPhish transnational meeting in Malta.
4 July, 2022 -- Matulevičius participated at the Baltic DB&IS 2022 conference.
28 June, 2022 -- Iqbal gave a seminar on his PhD research at the Institute of Computer Science.
15 June, 2022 -- Küberinnovatsioon 2022 Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
7 June, 2022 -- Matulevičius participated in Panel at the joint industry session (EMMSAD, BPMDS & KET4DF) to discuss AI, AR and governance in manufacturing and I4.0/I5.0.
6 June, 2022 -- Raimundas Matulevičius has given a keynote speech on "Trustworthy Information Systems: Modelling Security, Privacy and Forensics in Business Processes" at EMMSAD & BPMDS 2022 conference (Leuven, Belgium) co-oorganised with CAiSE 2022 (slides)
3.June 2022 -- Olivier Levasseur has very successfully defended his Master thesis on Model-Driven Engineering of Blockchain Oracles. Congratulations!!
May 2022 -- Abasi-amefon Obot Affia presents Integrating Hackathons into an Online Cybersecurity Course at the ICSE 2022, Software Engineering Education and Training.
20.May 2022 -- Mari Seeba presents Method for Evaluating Information Security Level in Organisations at RCIS 2022 Forum.
18.May -- InfoSec research seminar -- presentation by Martin Macak
13.May -- InfoSec research seminar -- presentation by Vimal Kumar Dwivedi
3-4.May 2022 -- InfoSec team participates in the general meeting of CHAISE project.
2.May 2022 -- CHAISE develops blockchain technology skills, Life in Estonia Magazine, spring pp 40-41
26.April 2022 -- Lukas Daubner gives a talk on Business Process Model and Notation for Forensic-Ready Software Systems (co-authors: Daubner L., Matulevičius R., Buhnova B., Pitner T.) at ENASE 2022
5.April 2022 -- seminar by Prof. R. Matulevičius on Tool-supported Method for Privacy Analysis of a Business Process Model at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
11.February 2022 -- seminar by Assoc. Prof. Madhusudan Singh, topic: Impact of Blockchain Technology in Autonomous Vehicles, more info
21.January 2022 -- General Assembly of the SPARTA project

2021

17.November 2021 -- Raimundas Matulevičius gave an invited talk on Security Risk Management and participated in the panel at the Bitdefender Baltic Region Partners’ Conference 2021 (organised by the CyberPhish project partner Altacom).
15-16 November, 2021 -- BCCA 2021: the Third IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, more info
November 2021 -- we participate in a number of project meetings this month:
- 11-12. November -- SPARTA WP6 meeting in Graz, Austria (hybrid)
- 23-24.November -- CHAISE project's general meeting (remote)
- 25-26.November -- CyberPhish transnational meeting, Tartu, Estonia (remote)
29.October 2021 -- Recipients of honorary decorations of the University of Tartu announced
- Ceremony video (28.08.2022)
September 2021 -- future signals Estonia Cybersecurity Report. Thank you Mari Seeba for the very insightful thoughts and ideas. more info, audio
29.September 2021 -- Institute Day
24.September 2021 -- Raimundas Matulevičius gave an invited talk on Asmens duomenų valdymas (eng.: Personal Data Management) at the Kompiuterininkų dienos 2021, recording, from 2:05:10.
23.September 2021 -- Raimundas Matulevičius was invited as a panelist to BIR 2021 to discuss 20 Years of BIR and Beyond, more info.
6.September, 2021 -- SPBP'21: Fourth Workshop on Security and privacy-enchanced Business Process Management, more info
3.September, 2021 -- Information Security research group seminar
24-26.August, 2021 -- ADBIS 2021: 25th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, more info
- Newsletter in English and Estonian
17-20.August, 2021 -- SP2I 2021: International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures, more info
4.July, 2021 -- BlockNet project is over. The project received the very positive evaluation and was recognised with the Good Practice Example badge from the Erasmus+ National Agency.
02.June, 2021 -- Congratulations (!!!) to Mariia Bakhtina for the successful defence of the Master thesis on Securing Passenger's Data in Autonomous Vehicles.
May, 2021 -- M. Seeba gave a seminar on Estonian Information Security standard at the LTAT.06.002 course, more info
19.March, 2021 -- Seminar on the Security Risk Management in Autonomous Driving done for the colleagues of the Autonomous Driving Lab and partners of the Bolt project.

2020

3.December, 2020 -- BlockNet multiplier event
- More info at link
November, 2020 -- we have started the work on two projects:
- CHAISE -- A Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Blockchain Skill Development has the goal of developing the framework for the educational skills on Blockchain technology and application. The project is for four years, and it involves 23 partners from 15 European countries. It is funded by the Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliances program.
- CyberPhish -- Safeguarding against Phishing in the age of 4 Industrial Revolution has the goal to develop educational material for the course on the security phishing threats. The project is for two years and involves European 5 partners. It is funded by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership program.
01.October, 2020 -- Infoturbe haldamine muutuste keerises (Changes in information security management in Estonia)
24.September, 2020 -- BLISS project is over. The project received the very positive evaluation and was recognised with the Good Practice Example badge from the Erasmus+ National Agency.