Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series: Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT)

The Department of Computer Science has announced the next speaker in its ongoing Distinguished Lecture Series. The Illinois Tech community is invited to attend.

Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm refers to the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable objects to exchange data with servers, centralized systems, and/or other connected devices based on a variety of communication infrastructures. IoT makes it possible to sense and control objects creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems. IoT will usher automation in a large number of application domains, ranging from manufacturing and energy management (e.g. SmartGrid), to healthcare management and urban life (e.g. SmartCity). However, because of its fine-grained, continuous and pervasive data acquisition and control capabilities, IoT raises concerns about security and privacy. Deploying existing security solutions to IoT is not straightforward because of device heterogeneity, highly dynamic and possibly unprotected environments, and large scale implementations. In this talk, after outlining key challenges in IoT security and privacy, Bertino will present initial approaches to securing IoT data, including firewall techniques to prevent IoT devices from being compromised and exploited by botnets.

About the Speaker

Elisa Bertino is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and serves as Director of the CyberSpace Security Lab (Cyber2SLab). Bertino is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science & Info tech at RMIT University in Melbourne. Prior to joining Purdue University in 2004, she was a professor and department head at the Department of Computer Science and Communication, University of Milan. She has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in San Jose, at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, at Rutgers University, and at Telcordia Technologies. Her recent research focuses on security of mobile and distributed systems, digital identity management, policy systems, and data privacy and transparency. She is a Fellow of ACM, of IEEE, and AAAS. She received the IEEE Computer Society 2002 Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Computer Society 2005 Kanai Award, and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award. She served as EiC of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing for the period 2013-2017.

Bertino's homepage: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bertino/

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Distinguished Lecture Series