2020 Serene-risc Workshop

Online

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 9:00 AM to Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 17:00 PM

2020 Serene-risc Workshop

The Smart Cybersecurity Network (Serene-risc) 2020 Annual Conference will take place online on October 21-22, 2020, in Montréal. This event brings together researchers, professionals and decision-makers from industry, government and academia to discuss the latest advances in Canadian cybersecurity knowledge, technologies, practices and policies.

The focus this year is on Human-Centric Cybersecurity, understood as the multiple roles played by the human-factor in cybersecurity processes and outcomes. We want to explore how innovative awareness campaigns and cybercrime prevention initiatives enhance the effectiveness of cybersecurity policies.

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Registration

Program

Day 1 - Wednesday, October 21, 2020

12:30-12:45

Welcoming address

Serene-risc Scientific Director
Benoît Dupont, Université de Montréal

12:45-14:15

Keynotes

Information Assurance Practice and education: Progress and Gaps
Tejaswini (Teju) Herath - Associate Professor of Information Systems, Brock University (CA)

Platforms and the Cybercrime Economy: Towards a socio-economic analysis
Michael McGuire - Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey (UK)

14:15-14:30

Break

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Track 1

14:30-15:45

Panel 1: Quantum cybersecurity

The current status of post-quantum cryptography
Douglas Stebila - University of Waterloo

Quantum Cryptography for Securing the Internet-of-Drones
Hussein Abulkasim - Ryerson University

Toward cyber resilience in the quantum era
Michele Mosca - University of Waterloo

15:45-16:00

Break

16:00-17:15

Panel 3: Cybersecurity and public health

User Perceptions of Security Risks Related to Contact Tracing Technologies
Hervé Saint-Louis - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Blockchain-based Personal Health Records and Health Data Sharing: Are Patients Ready?
Victoria Lemieux - University of British Columbia

A Cybersecurity Overview of the Canadian Health Sector: Threats, Solutions and Lessons Learned
Louis Melançon - McGill University

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Track 2

14:30-15:45

Panel 2: Investigating cybercrime

Is Persistence the key to offline contact: Identification of the online sex solicitors’ strategies associated with offline contact in their discourse
Vicky Desjardins - Univeristé de Montréal

The challenges facing officers in cybercrime prevention : identifying the needs of a local law enforcement agency
Adeline Veyrinas - Université de Montréal

How the Sûreté du Québec investigates cybercrime in 2020
Marc-André Piché - Sûreté du Québec

15:45-16:00

Break

16:00-17:15

Panel 4: Cybersecurity of IoT

Internet of Things Security: What Does “Best Practice” Actually Mean?
Christopher Bellman - Carleton University

Investigating the impact of the privacy paradox on end-user adoption for emerging and mature IoT devices: working towards a comparative study
Dane Vanderkooi - Ryerson University

Mitigating Consumer IoT Threats: A Multistakeholder Approach to Protecting Citizens in an Ultra-Connected World
Jeremy Depow - StrategyCorp Inc.

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17:15-18:15

Networking

Day 2 - Thursday, October 22, 2020

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Track 1

11:00-12:30

Panel 5: Human-centric cybersecurity

The Influence of Status Quo Bias on Novice Users' Security Decisions: An Empirical Analysis
Amir Fard Bahreini - University of British Columbia

Protecting Against Identity Theft: Victims’ Perspectives
Dylan Reynolds - University of Guelph

Cybersecurity Communications Strategies
Sky Marsen - Flinders University (AU)

Understanding the approach of Canada towards online disinformation: confronting, blocking, naturalising or ignoring?
Sofia Martins Geraldes - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (PT)

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:45

Panel 7: Personal data, personality and online behaviors

Synthetic Data Generation and Evaluation
Duc-Phong Le - Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity

Personality Trait Recognition in Online Social Networks for Cybersecurity
Pavan Kumar K. N. - University of Calgary

Multi-modal Fusion for Online Users Behavior Recognition
Sanjida Nasreen Tumpa - University of Calgary

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Track 2

11:00-12:30

Panel 6: Privacy, gender and cybersecurity

The Privacy Calculus from Within: An Internal Calculus for Privacy Concerns
Ryan William Kennedy - Ryerson University

Privacy Threats in the Context of Intimate Relationships: Sociotechnical Vulnerabilities in Canada's Legal System
Yuan Stevens - Ryerson University

Assessing the Gendered Impact of Internet Shutdowns
Sarah Shoker - University of Waterloo

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:45

Panel 8: Technical advances in cybersecurity

Analyzing Encrypted Traffic – security and privacy issues in Remote Desktop Protocol
Lucas Lapczyk - Queen’s University

Topological Data Analysis for Ransomware Detection on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Cuneyt Akcora - University of Manitoba

Practical Challenges of Applying Machine Learning in Cybersecurity
Sherif Saad - University of Windsor

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14:45-15:00

Break

15:00-16:15

Panel 9: Frontiers of cybersecurity

Decentralized Finance: Landscape and Future Directions
Jeremy Clark - Concordia University

The Impact of Cybercrime on Canadian Businesses in 2019
Howard Bilodeau - Statistics Canada

National-level cybersecurity – architecture and results from a uniquely Canadian service
Mark Gaudet Product - Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)

16:15-16:30

Closing remarks

Posters

Day1 - Day 2

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Conspiracy Theories in Times of Pandemics: Risks and Disinformation
Hervé Saint-Louis - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

“Emics and Etics” of Usable Security: Culturally Specific or Culturally Universal?
Aniqa Alam - Carleton University

Security for Quantum Networks
Salini Karuvade & Barry C. Sanders - University of Calgary

Health data privacy in the field of cybersecurity
Jenny Bicong Ge - Ryerson University