Two week International Winter School on Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence (Online)

Two week International Winter School on Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence (Online)

Organized by, Cyber Intelligence Research Lab, Department of Computer Applications, CUSAT.

Digital technologies are the heart of today’s organization and industry, and this means added vulnerabilities which leads to an increase in threats, attacks and exploitation.There is a chance for leaking identity information and privacy to third parties during transmission. Moreover it is impractical to store and access data at centralized servers from local devices. As adversaries can infer sensitive information by launching poisoning and membership inference attacks. Also the surge in internet usage during the pandemic has shown increase in stealth attacks to exfiltrate vital information from connected devices. Presently attackers conceal their identity and existing privacy laws for data collection and usage about user data privacy are challenges to cyber security. Furthermore, reliance on social media have impacted adversarial attacks in the form of deep fakes and fake news. Cyber threat intelligence is used as a solution to prevent sophisticated attacks and to prepare multiple institutions to prevent, detect and react against real time attacks.

Therefore, innovative security methods and privacy protection solutions are needed to provide secure and robust privacy-preserving intelligent systems. To achieve this, security systems need to adapt to the changing cyber security threats with minimal user intervention and maximum protection against cyber-attacks, intrusions, malware and various types of data breaches. AI has the potential to be leveraged in different aspects of cybersecurity and cyber threat detection. It has received significant interest lately, where a plethora of AI and other intelligent learning solutions are now being integrated into cybersecurity systems to provide privacy-preserving solutions for personal and ubiquitous systems. Such integration will play a vital role in providing enhanced security for intelligent autonomous systems and enable organizations to make crucial changes to their security landscape. This international winter school aims to bring together experts, cyber security researchers to a common platform for discussing wide topics related to recent advances in security of network and system management solutions.