Room: Sala riunioni 8 piano, via Celoria 18
Date & time: 20/07/2023, 14:00-15:00

Speaker: Chamseddine Talhi

Organizer: Paolo Ceravolo
 
Abstract

We are witnessing the era of industrialization and state support of cyberattacks and cyber warfare activities. Unfortunately, today's cybersecurity solutions are showing rigidity when facing innovative and polymorphic cyberattacks. In addition, they are suffering from poor robustness and low scalability in front of virulent and large-scale attack campaigns. Since it is impossible to anticipate all possible cyberattack (techniques and magnitude), we should invest in adaptability. However, adaptive cybersecurity requires context-awareness capabilities and flexible architectures. Facing new cybersecurity challenges, Cybersecurity solutions should be able to update the already deployed cyber defense mechanisms and hire or craft on the fly new countermeasures and efficiently deliver them to specific locations. In this talk, we will discuss how Cloud Native and context-aware architectures enable adaptive and robust Cybersecurity.
 

Short Bio

Chamseddine Talhi is a Full Professor with the Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, QC, Canada. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada. He is leading the LCSec research laboratory and he is investigating Context-aware Cybersecurity by leveraging Cloud-native architectures and distributed ML. He is leading an innovation network funded by Canada Department of National Defense to leverage advances in 5G (and beyond) in engineering robust and resilient cybersecurity architectures. He has various collaborations with academia and Industry related to the Cybersecurity of IoT, Edge/Cloud, and distributed systems. His recent research focuses on optimizing and managing federated learning tasks towards efficient and reliable privacy-preserving and collaborative cybersecurity.