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Information Security @
the University of Piraeus
The New Era of Cyber Security
University of Piraeus
8/12/2014
Sokratis K. Katsikas, Professor
The University of Piraeus
• Founded in 1938 as the “Piraeus School of Industry”
• Comprises four Schools and nine academic departments
• Nine BSc programmes
• Twenty six MScprogrammes
• Nine PhD programmes
• Appx 15000 students
The School of Information &
Communication Technologies
• Comprises two departments
– Dept. of Informatics
– Dept. of Digital Systems
• 45 faculty members
• ~2000 students
The Department of Digital Systems
• Founded in 1999.
• The Department of Digital Systems offers a four-year Undergraduate Programme in “Digital Systems” (240 ECTSs), two Postgraduate Programmes in “Technology Education and Digital Systems” (120 ECTSs) and in “Techno-economic Management and Digital Systems Security” (90 ECTSs) and Ph.D. studies.
• Areas of research interest include – Network-Oriented Systems and Services
– Digital Health Services
– Telecommunication Networks and Integrated Services
– Security Systems
– Intelligent Systems and Multimedia Technologies
– Telecommunication Systems
– Technology – Enhanced Learning
The Systems Security Laboratory
• Education and research in
– Digital systems security
– Information systems security
– Network security
– Critical infrastructure protection
– Information security
The Systems Security Laboratory
• Research interests– Secure eCommerce, eBusiness, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning
architectures and services
– Privacy Enhancing Technologies
– Development of Secure Information Systems
– Wireless and Mobile Communications Security
– Legal and Regulatory issues in Data and Privacy Protection
– Security and Privacy Economics
– Medical Informatics Security and Privacy
– Smart Card Technology and Applications
– Voice over IP Security
– Security Policies / Security Management -Risk Assessment Methodologies
– Intrusion Detection Systems
– Security in ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
The Systems Security Laboratory
• Research interests
– Web Applications and Database Security
– Authentication and trust management
– Forensics
– Security and privacy on smart phones and tablet computers
– Smart grid security
– Biometrics
– Vulnerabilities analysis, exploitation and penetration testing
Staff
• Faculty: 3
– Sokratis Katsikas, Professor
– Costas Lambrinoudakis, Associate Professor
– Christos Xenakis, Assistant Professor
• Post Doc fellows: 6
• PhD students: 15
• MSc students: 60
Funded Research
• International R&D projects: 34 / 3,9 MEURO
• National R&D projects: 21/0,7 MEURO
• Studies: 97/2,8 MEURO
• ΕΠΕΑΕΚ projects: 25/10,4 MEURO
Research output
• Books: 40 (Total)/13 (2009-2013)
• Book chapters: 42 (Total)/15 (2009-2013)
• Journals: 115 (Total)/28 (2009-2013)
• Conference Proceedings: 153 (Total)/39 (2009-2013)
• General conference chairmanship: 9 (Total)/2 (2009-2013)
• TPC chairmanship: 21 (Total)/14 (2009-2013)
• TPC membership: 401 (Total)/246 (2009-2013)
• Citations: 1821 (SK)
• h-index: 23 (SK)
• PhDs awarded
Undergraduate studies
• Courses taught
– Security policies and management (ΨΣ 801) 5th sem.
– Information Systems Security (ΨΣ 802) 6th sem.
– Network security (ΨΣ 803) 6th sem.
– Privacy enhancing technologies (ΨΣ 807) 6th sem.
– Cryptography (ΨΣ 806) 7th sem.
– Mobile and wireless communications security (ΨΣ 804) 8th sem.
• Undergraduate theses supervision
Postgraduate studies
• MSc Programme on “Digital Systems Security”
• 3 semesters (2 taught + 1 thesis)
• 30 students per cohort
• Courses taught– Network security
– Security management
– Security assessment and vulnerability exploitation
– Applied cryptography
– Information systems security
– Mobile internet security
– Digital forensics and web security
– Legal aspects of security
– Privacy enhancing technologies
– Advanced security technologies
• MSc theses supervision
Collaboration
• Research collaboration with dozens of
Universities, in all EU countries
• Research collaboration with industrial
partners
• ENISA
• Cyber Command, Hellenic Armed Forces
• Center for Security Studies
• ….
Contacts
• Sokratis Katsikas: [email protected]
• Costas Lambrinoudakis: [email protected]
• Christos Xenakis: [email protected]
