November 11, 2018 - IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva are co-hosting the finals of the applied research competition in cyber security
The event will take place as part of the cyber security awareness week (CSAW), which includes the international students’ competition in a number of locations worldwide, including France, India, Tunisia, Mexico, New York, and Israel
IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence in Beer Sheva and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in cooperation with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, are co-hosting the finals of the applied research competition in cyber security as part of the cyber security awareness week (CSAW 2018 - Cyber Security Awareness Week 2018).
In the Applied Research Competition, top young doctoral students in the field of cyber security compete for the best paper. Eligible submissions are academic papers that were published in the previous year in scientific journals and presented at conferences. Security researchers from IBM and BGU have first reviewed the papers submitted to the competition this year and chose six finalists. The finalists presented their papers before a panel of judges, who chose the outstanding papers in a special event on Novermber 11th. Over the years, this prestigious competition has drawn some of the top papers worldwide in the field of cyber security. Click here to see the finalists’ papers.
The competition at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was organized by Dr. Yair Allouche from IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence and Dr. Yossi Oren from the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering. Participants in the Finals event will hear lectures by Prof. Yuval Elovici, Director of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Prof. Yaron Wolfsthal, head of IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence.
This is the second year that IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are taking part in cyber security awareness week events, in cooperation with NYU and other academic institutes worldwide. Participants in the events include the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur is one of the top universities in India for computer sciences), Higher School of Communication of Tunis, INP Grenoble – Esisar located in Valence, France, and Haifa University in cooperation with IBM Research-Haifa.
CSAW ISRAEL FINALISTS
Trusted system-calls analysis methodology aimed at
detection of compromised virtual machines using
sequential mining
Nir Nissim (Ben Gurion University), Yuval
Lapidot (Ben Gurion University), Yuval Elovici (Ben
Gurion University) and Aviad Cohen (Ben Gurion
University)
Efficient Maliciously Secure Multiparty Computation
for RAM (Random Access Machine)
Avishay Yanai (Bar-Ilan University) and Marcel
Keller (University of Bristol)
Power to peep-all: Inference Attacks by Malicious
Batteries on Mobile Devices
Pavel Lifshits (Technion – Israel Institute of
Technology), Roni Forte (Technion – Israel Institute
of Technology), Yedid Hoshen (The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem), Matt Halpern (The University of Texas at
Austin), Manuel Philipose (The University of Texas at
Austin), Mohit Tiwari (The University of Texas at
Austin) and Mark Silberstein (Technion – Israel
Institute of Technology) -
Third Place
A New Burst-DFA model for SCADA Anomaly
Detection
Chen Markman (TAU), Avishai Wool (Tel Aviv
University) and Alvaro Cardenas (The University of
Texas at Dallas)
FORESHADOW: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX
Kingdom with Transient Out-of-Order Execution
Jo Van Bulck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven),
Marina Minkin (Technion), Ofir Weisse (University of
Michigan), Daniel Genkin (University of Michigan),
Baris Baris Kasikci (University of Michigan), Frank
Piessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Mark
Silberstein (Technion), Thomas F Wenisch (University
of Michigan), Yuval Yarom (The University of Adelaide)
and Raoul Strackx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) -
First Place
Pseudo Constant Time Implementations of TLS Are
Only Pseudo Secure
Eyal Ronen (Weizmann), Kenneth Paterson (Royal
Holloway, University of London) and Adi Shamir (The
Weizmann Institute) -
Second Place