Events

All faculty, staff, and students are invited to play an active role in shaping the direction of research, education, and policy at the University of Waterloo by attending the Summit for Responsible Innovation and Technology. This is an opportunity to provide valuable input and define Waterloo's culture of responsible innovation and technology. 

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The Centre for Information Integrity and Information Systems Assurance at the University of Waterloo (UW CISA) will be holding its 11^th biennial symposium held in Toronto, Canada. Our symposia are recognized for the extensive interaction between practitioners and academics. Papers and panels from academe and practice will address risks, controls and assurance issues associated with the following topics:

Join the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute for an afternoon of engagement with Blackberry, Herjavec Group, Trustwave and Rogers as they talk about the opportunities you have as students here at UW. The job market hosts many interesting and unique positions. Our guests will be talking about the opportunities within their organizations as well as taking questions from you. Bring your questions and get ready to talk to some of the best employers in the cybersecurity and privacy industry.

Agenda

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm - Registration 

Media, government, and industry commonly frame Security and Privacy as diametrically opposed: protecting one requires sacrificing the other.

The first CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy talk for the term will
be Tue Oct 6, 1:30 pm Eastern, at an online link TBA.

Taking on Big Tech: New Paradigms for New Possibilities

The UXperience | Think Privacy Design Jam will bring together Jammers to create a Privacy-Conscious Design Solution that brings people together. Think Privacy will deliver five days of pre-recorded and live content with four days of team action. Think Privacy will harness the power of experts to guide Jammers in developing a privacy-conscious design toolset. Participants can register as Jammers in teams of five to participate in the design challenge or join individually as Guests to partake in the talks and speakers’ Q & A sessions.

Abstract: Threshold signing

March 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Photo from the cover of the Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, UN

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CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy

This speaker series is made possible by an anonymous charitable donation in memory of cypherpunks and privacy advocates Len Sassaman, Hugh Daniel, Hal Finney, and Caspar Bowden.

View the list of past and upcoming speakers

Please join us on June 22nd (Tuesday) at 3:00 pm for Jiayi Chen's Ph.D. seminar. The seminar will be held online on BBB at https://bbb.crysp.org/b/jia-4zu-74k. 

Title: Multi-stage Risk-aware Adaptive Authentication and Access Control