Seminar & Privatissimum System Security (26SS)

  1. Seminar & Privatissimum:

    System Security

  1. Lecturer:
    Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Peter Schartner (SE+PV)
    Contacts and Supervisors:
    Peter Schartner (PS)
    First meeting:
    03.03.2026, N.1.71, 1330-1415 Privatissimum onyl!
    10.03.2026, N.1.71, 1330-1415 Seminar onyl!
    Dates:
    For class dates, check the Campus-System (and the Moodle-course)
    SE- and PV-Talk:
    Talk dates (max. 3 talks or 90 min per lecture) and SE-Topics will be fixed in the first meeting.
    Attendance is compulsory!
    SE talks: 20 min (firm!) for the talk + 5-10 min discussion
    SE teasers: 3-4 slides (including title & literature), 5 min (firm!)
    PV: Start/Middle/End 15/20/25 min talk + discussion
    PhD: Start/Middle/End 20/30/45 min talk + discussion
    Templates for slides and figures.
    LaTeX:
    We use TeX Live and WinEdt. Free editors are TeXstudio and TeXworks that ships with MikTeX.
    No matter which editor you use, please use the LaTeX template!
    Organisation:
    Guidelines for Seminars and Privatissima
    SE-Topics:
    Check the list below
    If you are looking for a master's thesis topic, feel free to come to the course with a suggested topic of your own (free) choice.
  1. Open Seminar Topics
    Security-related topics recently (i.e. approximately in the last 6 months) covered by
     + Communications of the ACM (CA)
     + IEEE Security & Privacy (SP)
     + IEEE Computing Edge (CE)

    Good statring points:
    CE 2026-03, pp 16 Toward a Universal Cryptographic Accelerator
    CE 2026-02, pp 48 Life at Risk: Uncovering the Urgent Security Gaps in Internet of Things-Integrated Cloud Infrastructures
    CE 2026-01, pp 14 Can AI Fix Buggy Code? Exploring the Use of Large Language Models in Automated Program Repair
    CA 2026-03, pp 44 Safe Coding
    CA 2026-02, pp 52 Memory Safety for Skeptics
    CA 2026-01, pp 11 Speeding Up Hash Tables
    SP 2026-01+02, pp 44 To Trust or Not To Trust
    Some selected Topics:
    + Crypto-Agility and PQ-Keyexchange (e.g. in TLS 1.3)
    + Cyber-Regulations (NIS2, DORA, CRA, CSA, …)
    + AI-Driven Cyber Threats and Defensive Strategies
    + Identity-First Security & Zero Trust
    + Securing Critical Infrastructure: OT/IoT and Supply Chain Assurance
    + More to come…
    Interested in another seminar topic (your topic) covered by Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computing Edge or IEEE Security & Privacy? Contact peter.schartner@aau.at