Events

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

Please join us on Wednesday, June 30th at 3:00 pm for Nik Unger's Ph.D.

Please join us on Friday, July 9th at 1:00 pm for Nik Unger's PhD defenc

Please join us on Tuesday, July 27th at 11:00 am for Masoumeh Shafieinejad's Ph.D. defence. The presentation will be held online via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86777160539?pwd=RWlBd1pMd1VHdCtma3BVMFJJcVRLQT09.

Title: Data Protection in Big Data Analysis

Join us on Thursday, October 7th at 12:00 pm for our panel on privacy. Our panelists: Arthur Berrill (RBC), Mariana Raykova (Google), Konstantin Beznosov (UBC) and Anindya Sen (UWaterloo), will discuss whether "current privacy-enhancing technologies effectively protect people's privacy defence". This panel is moderated by Florian Kerschbaum (UWaterloo) while CPI's Executive Director, N. Asokan, will be the keynote speaker.

Join us from Thursday, October 14th at 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm for our panel on the Challenges and Future of Software Security.

Our panelists include Mei Nagappan (University of Waterloo), Glenn Wurster (BlackBerry), Karim Ali (University of Alberta), Yousra Aafer (University of Waterloo) and Steven Ding (Queens University)!

Please register for this panel via the CPI Cybersecurity Month 2021 page

Join our poster session this Thursday, October 21st at 4:00 pm to learn about several topics in cybersecurity & privacy. You can sign-up for multiple sessions!

Learn more about each session via the CPI Poster Session 2021 page

Please register for this session via the CPI Cybersecurity Month 2021 page

How do we protect and preserve privacy, especially against corporate and other surveillance?

Join us on Thursday, October 21st at 6:00 pm to find out!

Our panelists include University of Waterloo professors: Jennifer Whitson (Stratford/Sociology and Legal Studies) and Ian Goldberg (Cheriton School of Computer Science)

More details about this session are available on the CPI Talks: Public Outreach Talks series page

Join us on Thursday, October 28th at 11:00 am to learn about espionage from Ron Deibert. Ron is a Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. As director of the Citizen Lab, Deibert has overseen and been a contributing author to over 120 research reports that cover topics such as cyber espionage, commercial spyware, Internet censorship, and human rights.

This event is co-sponsored by CPI and includes a joint Keynote at IEEE ISTAS '21.

How do we prevent, detect, or stop a data breach?

Join us on Dec 1st to find out!

Our guest speaker Daphne Yao also talks about data breaches, government regulations and cybersecurity risks in our newest CPI Talk!

CPI Talks are open to everyone regardless of age! High school students and even non-Waterloo students/staff are welcome to join.