ARES 2015
ARES 2015 Keynote Speaker

Let’s Encrypt: Deploying free, secure, and automated HTTPS certificates for the entire Web
Peter Eckersley, EFF Technology Projects Director, US

In blocks we trust: the case of crypto-currencies
Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud
Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

The European Strategic Agenda for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity
Afonso Ferreira, Trust & Security Unit, European Commission

Best Paper Session

A Novel Security-Enhanced Agile Software Development Process Applied in an Industrial Setting
Dejan Baca, Martin Boldt, Bengt Carlsson, Andreas Jacobsson

Optimizing IT Service Costs With Respect to the Availability Service Level Objective
Sascha Bosse, Matthias Splieth, Klaus Turowski

Structural Weaknesses in the Open Smart Grid Protocol (BEST PAPER ARES 2015)
Klaus Kursawe, Christiane Peters

ARES 2014
ARES 2014 Keynote Speaker

Mass surveillance and cryptology
Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Monitoring Threats and Vulnerabilities in Complex IT Landscapes
Volkmar Lotz, SAP Research, Germany

Change, Innovation, and Resilience in the DNS Ecosystem: a Verisign Labs Perspective
Allison Mankin, Director of Verisign Labs, Verisign, Inc., US

Best Paper Session

A New Access Control Scheme for Facebook-Style Social Networks (BEST PAPER ARES 2014)
Jun Pang, Yang Zhang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

No Smurfs: Revealing Fraud Chains in Mobile Money Transfers
Maria Zhdanova, Jürgen Repp, Roland Rieke (Fraunhofer Institute SIT, Germany), Chrystel Gaber (Orange, France), Baptiste Hemery (Normandie Université, France)

BitTorrent Sync: Network Investigation Methodology
Mark Scanlon, Jason Farina, M-Tahar Kechadi (University College Dublin, Ireland)

ARES 2013
ARES 2013 Keynote Speaker

Data Protection in Social Networks: Going Beyond Access Control  (>>Interview & Video<<)
Elena Ferrari, Director DiSTA STRICT SociaLab, University of Insubria, Italy

Six Research Challenges for the Security and Privacy of Health Information Technology (>>Interview & Video<<)
Carl Gunter, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Opening & Best Paper Session (>> Interviews & Video<<)

Laribus: Privacy-Preserving Detection of Fake SSL Certificates with a Social P2P Notary Network
Andrea Micheloni, Karl-Peter Fuchs, Dominik Herrmann, Hannes Federrath (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Reliability Prediction for Component-Based Software Systems with Architectural-Level Fault Tolerance Mechanisms
Thanh-Trung Pham, Xavier Défago (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan)

A Statistical Approach for Fingerprinting Probing Activities
Elias Bou-Harb, Mourad Debbabi, Chadi Assi (NCFTA & Concordia University, Canada)

ARES 2013 Panel

Threats & Risk Management – Bridging the Gap between Industry needs and Research

Moderator: Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Panelists:
Gary McGraw, Cigital, US
Greg Soukiassian, BC & RS, France
Chris Wills, CARIS Research, UK

ARES 2013 Tutorials

Bug Parades, Zombies, and the BSIMM: A Decade of Software Security (extended dance version)
Gary McGraw, CTO, Cigital, USA

Tutorial on DNS Security
Haya Shulman, Fachbereich Informatik, TU Darmstadt

Tutorial on Secure Enterprise – wide Identity Management and Role Modeling
Ludwig Fuchs, University of Regensburg, Germany

Tutorial on Challenges in Data Protection – Privacy by Design
Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt & CASED, Germany

ARES 2012
ARES 2012 Keynote Speaker

Designing Software Systems that Comply with Privacy and Security Regulations
Annie I. Antón, Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University

Declarative Security
Chenxi Wang, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

ARES 2012 Panel

Raising the Bar:  Performing More Effective Cyber Security Studies

Moderator: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
Panelists:
Angela Sasse, University College London (UK)
David Budgen, Durham University (UK)
Kelly Caine, Indiana University (US)

ARES 2011
ARES 2011 Keynote Speaker

Software Security and the BSIMM (>>Video low quality<<) (>>Video medium quality<<)
Gary McGraw, Chief Technology Officer of Cigital, Inc., Washington D.C.

Keeping the Human in the Loop (>>Video low quality<<) (>>Video medium quality<<)
Shari Pfleeger, Director of Research for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

ARES 2011 Invited Talk

Some Thoughts on Cyber Security & Privacy (>>Video low quality<<) (>>Video medium quality<<)
Gene Spafford, Purdue University, USA

ARES 2010
ARES 2010 Keynote Speaker

Information security – where computer science, economics and psychology meet (Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4, Video Part 5)
Prof. Ross Anderson, Cambridge University

Thinking outside the box (Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4)
Prof. Gene Spafford, Purdue University

CISIS 2010 Keynote Speaker

Using Next Generation Grid Technologies for Advancing Virtual Organizations (Video Part 1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3)
 Prof. Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Scheduling in Grid Systems (Video Part1, Video Part 2, Video Part 3, Video Part 4)
Prof. Helen D. Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

ARES 2009
ARES 2009 Keynote Speaker

Digital Identity Protection – Concepts and Issues
Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University

Topoligical Analysis of Network Attack Vulnerability
Prof. Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University

Pairing based cryptography – theory, implementations and applications
Prof. Eiji Okamoto, Tsukuba University

ARES 2009 Invited Talk

Integrative security approach as a key success factor of dependability
Prof. Solange Ghernaouti-Héli, University of Lausanne

ARES 2008
ARES 2008 Keynote Speaker

Security and Privacy Challenges in Location Based Service Environments
Prof. Vijay Atluri, Management Science and Information Systems Department, Research Director of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC), Rutgers University

Infrastructure Support for Authorization, Access Control and Privilege Management
Prof. Günther Pernul, Department of Information Systems, University of Regensburg

ASCAA Principles for Next-Generation Role-Based Access Control
Prof. Ravi Sandhu, Executive Director, Chief Scientist and Founder, Institute for Cyber-Security Research (ICSR) and Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber-Security

ARES 2007
ARES 2007 Keynote Speaker

Security principles for the Austrian eGovernment
Prof. Reinhard Posch, Chief Information Officer for the Federal Republic of Austria

Data Mining, Security and Privacy: Developments and Directions
Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Director of Cyber Security Research Center, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD

ARES 2006
ARES 2006 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Louis Marinos, ENISA Security Competence Department, Risk Management, Greece
Prof. Andrew Steane, Centre for Quantium Computation, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. David Basin, Information Security, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland