Information Security Research Group

Introduction

How to fight security threats?

Learning outcomes of the CHAISE curriculum

2024

  • 11 December 2024 — M. Bakhtina gave the talk Reimagining trust: non-centralized ways for organizational identity management at RIA CyberMeetUp, Tallinn, see more
  • 9 December 2024 – CHESS workshop on Adaptive Safety in Autonomous Ecosystems David Halasz (Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic)
  • 3-5. December 2024 -- V. Antipenko and R. Matulevičius participated at the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2024), Stockholm, Sweden.
    • V. Antipenko presented the paper Functional Security in Automation: The FAST Approach, see more.
    • This paper received the Best PoEM 2024 paper award !!
  • 3-5 December 2024 — M. Bakhtina participated in the Baltic Cybersecurity Innovation Forum CyberBazaar 2024, Riga, Latvia, find out more
  • 22 November 2024 — InfoSec (R. Matulevičius, V.Antipenko, M. Iqbal, F. Ekeh) participated in the kickoff of the CYBERCHALLENGE project, online.
  • 14 October 2024 - M. Seeba presented Estonian Journey Developing and Implementing the National Information Security Framework E-ITS on the ETSI Security Conference 2024 conference link, presentation link
  • 09. October 2024 – V.Antipenko participated in Matchmaking: Linking Businesses and Researchers in Electronics and Machinery, learn more
  • October 2024 — M. Bakhtina participated in the research seminars and presented the PhD project's results on the topic A Method for Information Security and Privacy Management in Smart Solutions in Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, learn more
  • 4 October 2024 — M. Bakhtina gave the talk The Power of Many - Distributed Control Over Organisational Identity at the X-Road Community Event 2024 (online) see more
  • 27 September 2024 - R. Matulevičius and M. Iqbal participated at the CHAISE workshop, Teach and Work on the Blockchain Landscape, Brussels, Belgium, read more
    • R. Matulevičius organised the exhibition event about the CHAISE learning resources.
    • M. Iqbal participated as a panellist.
  • 24 September 2024 - R. Matulevičius participated at the CHAISE National Information Day for Luxembourg, read more
  • 26 September 2024 – V.Antipenko presented results from the Analysis of cyber security risks in automated systems and technologies to the Eesti Infosüsteemide Audiitorite Ühing (ISACA).
  • 25 September 2024 – V. Antipenko gave a public seminar on risk management in manufacturing in Pärnu, learn more
  • 20 September 2024 - R. Matulevičius gave a public lecture in Alytus (in Lithuanian): Informacijos ir duomenų saugumas elektroninėje erdvėje (in youtube)
  • 11-13 September 2024 - R. Matulevičius participated at the BIR 2024 and co-chaired the conference program.
  • 11 September 2024 - M. Seeba gave a talk about the relations of data protection and information security measures in Tehik, organised by Estonian DPA where participated DPOs from hospitals (medical sector) (summary of the event)
  • 10 September 2024 - M. Seeba was a panellist in Digiteadmiste päev organised by Digiriigi Akadeemia to discuss MOOC courses where she focused on introducing cybersecurity standards (in youtube)
  • 6 September 2024 – InfoSec seminar
  • 6-7 September 2024 – M. Iqbal participated at the IEEE Estonia meeting, Vinnistu, Estonia
  • 14 August 2024 – M.Bakhtina presented the poster A Toolset for Secure and Privacy-Preserving Data Exchange in Smart Solutions at ESSCaSS 2024
  • 13 August 2024 – P. Pullonen-Raudvere defended her PhD thesis Foundations of efficient and secure algorithm development for secure multiparty computation (supervised by S. Laur and D. Bogdanov)
  • 30 July – 2 August 2024 – InfoSec at ARES 2024
  • 10 July 2024 – R. Matulevičius participated as a panelist at the SEEBLOCK.eu webinar Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure & Blockchain
  • 30 June – 3 July 2024 – InfoSec participated at Baltic DB&IS 2024
  • 28 June 2024 – R. Matulevičius participated in the Italo Oliveira PhD defence at the Free University of Bolzen-Bolzano, Italy. Topic: An Ontological Approach to Security Modeling
  • 25 June 2024 – R. Matulevičius presented the project results at the CHAISE National Day in Greece (online)
  • 19-20 June 2024 – R. Matulevičius attended the CHAISE partners meeting in Bucharest, Romania
  • 12 June 2024 – InfoSec participated at Küberinnovatsioon 2024 Tartu
    • M. Seeba was a moderator and leading organiser of the Küberinnovatsioon 2024 Tartu
    • CHAISE National Day in Estonia, organised by R. Matulevičius and M. Iqbal
    • V. Antipenko conducted workshop on Teooriast praktikasse: riskihaldus automatiseeritud tootmises / Analysis of cyber security risks in automated systems and technologies
  • 11 June 2024 – A. Affia gave the talk Hackathons as Hybrid Collaborative Environments at the Software Engineering & Technology (SET) colloquium at the Eindhoven University of Technology
  • 3-7 June 2024 – InfoSec participated at CAiSE 2024 , Limassol, Cyprus
  • 3 June 2024 – R. Matulevičius presented the paper STAMP: Blockchain and DAO-based Student Attendance Management Platform at BalkanCom 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 29 May 2024 – introduction of the Applied Research on Cyber Security of Smart City Mobility Solutions project results to the Republic of Finland and the Republic of Estonia presidents.
  • 23 May – CHESS workshop on Threshold Cryptography A. Dufka and J. Kvapil (Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic)
  • 22 May 2024 – R. Matulevičius presented the project’s results at the CHAISE event Education and Skills for Decentralized Digital Ecosystem
  • 21 May 2024 – R. Matulevičius presented the InfoSec research group to the Macnica Inc visitor from Japan.
  • 16 May 2024 – V. Antipenko and M. Bakhtina participated in the TalTech conference Doctoral candidates’ career conference: To new heights with a PhD degree!
  • 14-17 May 2024 – L. Daubner presented the paper Forensic-Ready Analysis Suite: A Tool Support for Forensic-Ready Software Systems Design at RCIS 2024 Forum, Guimarães, Portugal
  • 8-12 April 2024 – Intelligent Systems for Digital Era (ISDE) research track a the SAC 2024 conference
  • 26 March 2024 – R. Matulevičius was a panellist at the seminar on How to publish research results?
  • 15 March 2024 – L. Daubner defended the PhD dissertation on Risk-Oriented Design for Forensic-Ready Software Systems (supervised by T. Pitner, B. Buhnova, at MUNI, Brno, Czech Republic)
  • 14 March 2024 – V. Antipenko presented results from Analysis of cyber security risks in automated systems and technologies during Tark Tööstus conference
  • 12 March 2024 – M. Iqbal presented the paper Bridging Two Worlds: Framework for Secure Implementation of Blockchain Oracles at IWBOSE workshop, SANER 2024 conference.
  • 12 March 2024 – R. Matulevičius presented the results of the CHAISE project at Blockchain and European public transformation Identity, diploma, competences: developing digital sovereign commons . Lille, France (online)
  • 25 January 2024 – V. Antipenko participated in the RIA CyberMeetup Short presentation on the necessity of IoT and Cyber Security. See more
  • 23-24 January 2024 - InfoSec organised the CHESS general meeting at the Institute of Computer Science.

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.
  • 30 September, 2022 -- Doctoral defence: Mubashar Iqbal Reference Framework for Managing Security Risks Using Blockchain
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.