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Registration Still Open: SecHuman Annual Symposium on 10 February, 2023

Speakers are, among others, Dr. Kevin Macnish (Sopra Steria) and Dr. Deborah Wiltshire (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences).

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What: The annual symposium of the graduate school "Security for Humans in Cyberspace" (SecHuman)
When: 10 February 2023, 9:45am – 4pm
Where: RUB, Building ID 03/653 and online via -> Zoom

In the morning, keynote speakers Dr. Kevin Macnish (remote, Consulting Manager in Digital Ethics at Sopra Steria, former Assistant Professor of Ethics and IT at the University of Twente) and Dr. Deborah Wiltshire (Head of Secure Data Center at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) will shed light on questions of ethics in IT security research.  In the afternoon, short presentations and a poster session provide insights into the current research and the thematic scope of SecHuman.

The event is open for anyone interested in human and societal aspects of IT security and is held in English.

If you are interested in attending, please register using the following link by 25 January 2023:  https://public.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/RegistrationSecHuman.

Programme

9:45 – 10:00 am Registration and coffee

10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome
Prof. Dr. Christof Paar, Deputy speaker SecHuman

10:15 – 10:30 am Greetings
Prof. Dr. Günther Meschke, Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer, RUB

10:30 – 11:30 am KEYNOTE I
"The state and relevance of ethics in IT security research"
Dr. Kevin Macnish (remote), Consulting Manager in Digital Ethics at Sopra Steria, former Assistant Professor of Ethics and IT at the University of Twente

11:30 am – 12.30 pm KEYNOTE II
"Ensuring the ethical use of big data: lessons from secure data access"
Dr. Deborah Wiltshire, Head of Secure Data Center at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch break

1:30 – 2:30 pm Spotlight: Research projects SecHuman II

  • Jonas Hielscher and Uta Menges: Innovative, productivity-friendly IT security solutions and risk management in organisations
  • René Walendy and Markus Weber: Cognitive factors in hardware reverse engineering
  • Johannes Willbold and Kaya Cassing: Ethical vulnerability research: Automated methods and ethical orientation
  • Lukas Plätz and Jan Schmutzler: Protection against re-identification under linkage of data
  • Leona Lassak and Hanna Püschel: Solutions for autonomous data decisions
  • Wentao Yu and Nora Giljohann: Author profiling for hate speech spreaders

2:30 – 3:45 pm Poster session: Research projects SecHuman II

Coffee break included

3:45 – 4:00 pm Goodbye
Prof. Dr. Christof Paar, Deputy speaker SecHuman

4:00 pm End

For further information please also refer to: https://sechuman.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/.

Kindly supported by: Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung.

About SecHuman
The graduate school SecHuman focuses on technical and social problems of IT security in an inter- and transdisciplinary research environment. In addition to the technological aspects of IT security, we look at the consequences and challenges for people, society and culture in order to develop appropriate solutions. SecHuman is based on an innovative tandem concept: In each tandem, a doctoral student from a technical field works together with a doctoral student from the humanities or social sciences. To ensure the socio-political and also practical relevance of the research, we cooperate with numerous partners from industry, politics and civil society. The graduate school is part of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at the Ruhr University in Bochum and is currently represented by Prof. Angela Sasse and Prof. Christof Paar as spokespersons. SecHuman is funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW).

General note: In case of using gender-assigning attributes we include all those who consider themselves in this gender regardless of their own biological sex.