| Emerging Talents Workshop |
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The
Emerging Talents Workshop will be held on 21 Jun 2021 to showcase the
excellent research of graduate / postgraduate students who are studying
and researching in the field of Naturalistic Decision Making and
Resilience Engineering.
Deadline: 29 Jan 2021.
More info here.
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| Funding Competition: Development of the Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem |
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UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million for fast-start short-term projects.
Funding is to investigate requirements for adoption of Digital
Security by Design (DSbD) technologies across the software development
ecosystem.
Deadline: 13 Jan 2021 11:00.
More info here.
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| FCA Digital Sandbox Pilot Opened to Participants |
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30
organisations will take part in the pilot to develop solutions to
tackle challenges relating to, or exacerbated by, coronavirus; scams and
fraud, consumer vulnerability and SME access to finance.
Event date: 01 Dec 2020, 11:30–12:30 GMT.
More info here.
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| Open Positions at Security Lancaster |
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Security
Lancaster offers several PhD opportunities in cloud seucirty,
cybersecurity for ML Systems, and socio-technical aspects of secure
autonomous systems.
More info here.
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| UK RISE Competition |
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RISE
are running a UK-wide competition for all final year undergrad and
masters student projects, in the area of hardware & embedded systems
security.
Deadline for submissions: 30 Jun 2021.
More info here.
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| The GFIN Cross-Border Testing |
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The
Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) is inviting applications
from firms to test innovative financial products, services or business
models across more than one country or jurisdiction.
Deadline: 31 Dec 2020.
More info here.
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| Participate in a Survey about AI Systems |
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Realising
Accountable Intelligent Systems (RAInS) project is conducting surveys
to determine what information people feel is most important to record
and be able to access throughout the processes of building and using an
AI system.
If you are an industry professional or academic either working
with or researching AI Systems, please fill in this survey.
If yo uare a law or policy professional or academic either
working on or researching governing, standardising, or policing AI
Systems, please use this survey.
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| Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2020 - Registration Open |
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ACSAC's Hard Topic Theme: Deployable and Impactful Security.
Keynote speaker: Emily Stark - Tech Lead and Manager, Chrome
Security Team, Google
More info here.
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| Sophos' Cybersecurity Summit On-Demand |
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Get access to 9 cybersecurity-related talks, including one from SPRTITE+ Expert Fellow Jason Nurse!
More info here.
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| PEPR '20 Presentation Available |
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2020 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect published its conference program.
More info here.
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| PrivSec Global to Go Live |
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The Largest Data Protection, Privacy and Security Event of 2020 is kicking off next week.
Dates: 30 Nov to 3 Dec, 2020.
More info here.
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| ENIGMA - a USENIX Conference - Registration is Open |
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Enigma centers on a single track of engaging talks covering a wide range of topics in security and privacy.
Dates: 01-03 Feb 2021.
More info here.
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| 2020 Brussels Privacy Symposium |
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Research and the Protection of Personal Data Under the GDPR.
Dates: 2 Dec 2020, 13:00-16:00 GMT
More info < a
href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-brussels-privacy-symposium-2020-virtual-registration-128653027669">here.
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| USENIX Security '21 Call for Papers |
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The
USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners,
system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the
latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and
networks.
Deadline: 04 Feb 2021.
More info here.
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| Computers & Security Journal - Volume 99 is Out |
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The volume covers a variety of topics from blockchain privacy to recurring neural networks used to detect malware.
More info here.
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| New Issue of Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques |
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Volume 16, issue 4 is a special issue on Russian research in cryptology and information security systems.
More info here.
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| IEEE Security & Privacy - New Issue |
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Issue 6 • Nov.-Dec.-2020 is out, focusing on reproducibility.
More info here.
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| Lancaster’s Security Institute to lead £3M Research Node |
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The node is set to examine cybersecurity in autonomous systems.
More info here.
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| Why victims of cyber crime deserve ‘Cyber CPR’ |
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SPRITE+
Community contributed to an article outlining why victims of cyber
crime need greater protection, including a raft of ‘CPR’ measures
designed to help them recover quickly.
The atricle is here.
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| UKAN published 2nd edition of Anonymisation Decision Making Framework (ADF) |
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The
new ADF is published by UK Anonymisation Network, with authors of the
second edition including SPRITE+ Expert Fellows Co-ordinator Prof. Mark
Elliot.
The ADF provides a way of thinking about anonymisation and the
reuse of personal data that breaks out of the constraints of overly
technical or overly legal framings of the problem.
More info here.
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| SPRITE+ Showcase: 14 January 2021 |
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Plans
are in full swing for the upcoming showcase. The full agenda is almost
finalised and will be announced shortly. Please keep an eye on your
emails for further information and register here if you’ve not done so
already.
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| SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Spotlight – Shamal Faily |
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We continue to publish Career Journey interviews with SPRITE+ Project Partners, Experts, and Members.
The spotlight today is on Shamal Faily – Principal Lecturer in
Systems Security Engineering, co-coordinator of the Bournemouth
University Cyber Security Research group (BUCSR), RISCS Fellow in Secure Development Practices, and a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow.
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We regularly collate PhD opportunities and academic position adverts related to digital TIPS.
This month we've added over a dozen new job postings, including
research associate roles, lectureships, and professorships.
We've also published several PhD opportunities in the areas of
computer science, machine learning, cybersecurity, and infrastructure
innovation.
Check the link to find out more.
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| SPRITE+ Member Publications Now in One Place |
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Every
month we ask our network for the papers they have recently published,
and compliment that with recent publications from leading journals in
digital trust, identity, privacy, and security.
All of those papers can now be found in one place - take a look.
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| SPRITEHub Homepage Redesigned! |
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A
new homepage brings our content to the forefront. Take a look at what
SPRITEHub has to offer, get involved in the activities, and find out
more about the project.
Please let us know if you have any feedback.
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| SPRITE+ Members - Recent Publications |
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Congratulations
to Francesca Stevens, Jason R.C. Nurse, and Budi Arief for publishing a
paper titled: Cyber Stalking, Cyber Harassment, and Adult Mental
Health: A Systematic Review. You can find it here.
SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Ansgar Koene (Global AI Ethics &
Regulatory Leader - EY) has been interviewed about his views on
artificial intelligence. The interview is available here.
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calls, calls for funding, publications, consultations) on
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your tweet.
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newsletter is published every third Wednesday of the month. Deadline to
include your news piece is every second Friday of the month).
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