Category Archives: Conferences

SK Annual Conference 2016

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E-identity event SK Annual Conference 2016 will take place on November 3, 2016, Kultuuri Katel (Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn).

Agenda:
09:00-09:30    Registration and morning coffee
09:30-09:40    Presentation of the exhibitors
09:40-10:30    Overview of SK 2016, Kalev Pihl, SK
10:30-11:00    Updates to SK services portfolio, Liisa Lukin, SK
11:00-11:15    Cofee Break
11:15-12:15    Keynote Peter Zinn: We’re All Gonna Д13
12:15-13:00    Lunch
13:00-13:30    From e-Estonia to e-Europe, Katrin Laas-Mikko, SK
13:30-14:00    Future plans of ID-software, Margus Arm, Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet
14:00-14:30    Overview of near markets: Baltikum and Nordic countries, Lauri Immonen, Telia
14:30-15:00    Cofee Break
15:00-15:20    From physical to virtual: SIM and eSIM convergence, Jürgen Niinre, Telia
15:20-15:50    New SK eID solution, Urmo Keskel, SK
15:50-16:10    Renewed DigiDoc portal, Gintas Balčiūnas, Estina
16:10-16:40    Round of question and answers
16:40-17:00    Summary of the day by digital world enthusiasts
17:00-17:30    Evening snack

Links:
https://www.sk.ee/ettevottest/aastakonverents-2016

E-enabled elections in Estonia: Forum on research and development in 2015

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During the first half day, Estonian researchers will present the results of a 3-year scientific project that studied the Estonian flavour of verifiable Internet voting from both technical and social aspects. The second half of the first day will be devoted to the presentation of the development ideas of the Estonian solution. The second day holds additional interventions on the topic of remote online voting and offers brainstorming activity where feedback to the ideas of the first day will be gathered interactively.

Thursday (05.11.2015)
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Opening keynote
09:45 – 10:30 Kristjan Vassil “Diffusion of Internet Voting in Estonia”
10:30 – 11:15 Mihkel Solvak “Impact of Verification on Trust toward Internet Voting”
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:15 Taavi Unt “Usage Patterns in Internet Voting Log Files”
12:15 – 13:45 Jan Willemson, Sven Heiberg and Arnis Paršovs “Log analysis of Estonian Internet
voting 2013-2015”
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
16:00 – Coffee break
15:00 – 17:30 Tarvi Martens, Sven Heiberg and Jan Willemson “Estonian Internet voting 2017+”

Friday (06.11.2015)
10:00 – 10:30 Bingsheng Zhang “How to Achieve Unconditional Integrity in an End-to-end Verifiable E
voting System”
10:30 – 11:00 Kristjan Gjøsteen “A security usability study on the Norwegian e-voting system”
11:00 – 11:30 Carsten Schürmann “Creating Credible Elections”
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30 Jurlind Budurushi “An Investigation into the Usability of Electronic Voting Systems with
Paper Audit Trails in the Context of Complex Elections”
12:30 – 13:00 Helger Lipmaa “Privacy and Accountability in Networks via Optimized Randomized Mixnets”
13:00 – 13:30 Filip Zagorski “Improving security of remote voting”
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
15:00 – Coffee break
14:30 – 17:00 Argument game

Links:
http://cyber.ee/en/news/e-enabled-elections-in-estonia-forum-on-research-and-development-in-2015/

SK Annual Conference 2015

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E-identity event SK Annual Conference 2015 will take place on November 5, 2015, Vabal Laval Telliskivi Loomelinnakus (Telliskivi 60a, C1-hoone)

09:00-09:30 Registration and morning coffee
09:30-09:45 Overview of SK 2015, Kalev Pihl, SK
09:45-10:45 Identification physically and digitally, Joseph Leibenguth, Gemalto
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:55 eIDAS and international interoperability, Katrin Laas-Mikko, SK
11:55-12:25 New Mobile-ID and alternatives, Urmo Keskel, SK
12:25-12:45 NutiKaitse 2017: development of security, Andri Möll, Monday Calendar
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Life of cryptography, Anto Veldre, RIA
14:00-14:30 Underlying technologies of cryptocurrency, Asse Sauga, Eesti Krüptoraha Liit
14:30-15:40 Tech trends 2030 & company of the future, Richard van Hooijdonk
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:35 Questions and answers
16:35-16:55 Summary of the day
16:55-17:30 Evening snack

Links:
https://www.sk.ee/ettevottest/aastakonverents-2015/

CyCon 2015 videos are now available online

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Videos, proceedings and other materials from the 7th Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon 2015, are now available online.

Links:
https://ccdcoe.org/cycon/2015/
https://ccdcoe.org/cycon-2015-materials-now-public.html

Cyber Defense League and Maria Mägi Law Firm conference “Cyberdefender or cyberterrorist?”

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October 29, 2015. Estonian National Library, Tallinn.

Agenda
09:30 – 10:00    Registration open, welcome coffee.
10:00 – 10:10    Opening remarks
Andrus Padar, Chief of Cyber Defense League
10:10 – 11:30    Is Estonian e-lifestyle well defended?
– short presentations and demos by cyber league members.
11:30 – 11:45    Coffee pause
11:45 – 13:00    Cyberwar and cybercivilwar – patriot or cyberterrorist?
attorney at law Eeva Mägi, Maria Mägi Law Firm, doctoral student at Tallinn University of Technology
13:00 – 14:00    Lunch
14:00 – 15:30    Cyberdefender or cybercriminal – where is the dividing line between allowed and forbidden?
attorney at law Mare Tannberg, Maria Mägi Law Firm, University of Tartu lecturer in criminal law.
15:30 – 15:45    Coffee pause
15:45 – 17:00    Roundtable, moderator Andrus Padar and Maria Mägi (Maria Mägi Law Firm Managing partner).

Working language Estonian. Participation fee EUR 25. Invitation only event. Ask invitation from your closest Cyber Defense League member.

Links:
https://kkl.conf.ee/doku.php

Oxford Training Sessions on Government, Security, and Conflict in the Cyber Age

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This three-day training session is organized and delivered by Oxford University faculty. It will discuss in detail the challenges and opportunities of the modern information society. These are not solely or even primarily technical in nature – they also involve elemental questions of political culture and institutions, public policy, ethics, law, and diplomacy.

Where: Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn, room U01-202 (auditorium behind the main hall)

DAY 1: September 4, Friday, Grand Hall
09:00 – 10.00    Registration and welcoming
10:00 – 10:30    Course Introduction (Lucas Kello)
10:30 – 12:00    Lecture 1: Computing and Networks: The Basics (Andrew Martin)
12:00 – 13:00    Lunch break
13:00 – 14:20    Lecture 2: Code as a Weapon: Worms and Viruses (Andrew Martin)
14:20 – 14:30    Short break
14:30 – 16:00    Lecture 3: International Security and Conflict in the Cyber Age (Lucas Kello)
16.00 – 16.10    Short break
16:10 – 17:00    Day 1 summary

DAY 2: September 5, Saturday, Grand Hall
08:30 – 09:00    Registration
09:00 – 10:20    Lecture 4: Rules of War in the Cyber Domain (Lucas Kello)
10:20 – 10:30    Short break
10:30 – 12:00    Lecture 5: Cybersecurity and the Age of Privateering: A Historical Analogy (Florian Egloff)
12:00 – 13:00    Lunch break
13:00 – 14:20    Lecture 6: Origins, Principles and Functions of the Estonian State Information System (Kuldar Taveter)
14:20 – 14:30    Short break
14:30 – 16:00    Lecture 7: Designing User Friendly and Secure Services of e-State (Kuldar Taveter)
16:00 – 16:20    Coffee break
16:20 – 17:00    Day 2 summary and simulation exercise briefing

DAY 3: September 6, Sunday, Grand Hall
08:30 – 09:00    Registration
09:00 – 09:30    Simulation exercise set up
09:30 – 13:00    Simulation Exercise
13:00 – 14:30    Lunch break and group discussion
14:30 – 15:30    Post-Exercise Debriefing: Decisionmaking in a Crisis
15:30 – 15:50    Coffee break
15:50 – 17:00    Course summary

Registration open until 02.09.2015.

Links:
http://www.egov.ee/oxford/

CyCon 2015 Call for Student Papers

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We are seeking novel and previously unpublished short paper which would provide an overview of a recent Master thesis in the field of cyber security. Students from various disciplines such as computer sciences, law and political sciences are invited to participate. Submissions will be evaluated based on their originality and significance to the conference’s theme “Architectures in Cyberspace”.

Best submissions will be presented and prizes awarded at CyCon 2015. The awards comprise of a free conference pass for all invited candidates and the following cash prizes for the top three student papers:
1st place: 1000 Euro
2nd place: 600 Euro
3rd place: 400 Euro

And as it turns out – under the meaningless “Architectures in Cyberspace” title falls pretty much anything.

Links:
https://ccdcoe.org/cycon/student-awards-0.html
https://ccdcoe.org/cycon-2015.html

Tallinn International CyberCrime Conference 2014

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Location: Tallinn, Estonia – Radisson Blu Hotel Olympia
On 12 and 13 november 2014 the Tallinn University of Technology organizes the International Cybercrime Conference of 2014. The main agenda of the conference is to announce the official opening of TUT Centre of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security and to discuss current cyber security research.

Conference CyberCrime 2014, day 1, 12.11.2014 (most of the day in estonia – english simultaneous translation, with the exception of 2 presentations in english)

Moderator Aare Tammemäe, FinanceEstonia, Chairman of the Board
09.00 – 10.00 Registration and welcome coffee
10.00 – 10.15 Conference Opening Address: Prof Erkki Truve, Vice rector of Tallinn University of Technology
10.15 – 10.25 Mr Hanno Pevkur, Minister of the Interior, Republic of Estonia
10.25 – 11.10 Plenary Session 1
Key note speaker: Mrs Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Cyber Security Policy Advisor, European External Action Service.
EU Cyber Security Strategy and Capacity Building to Fight Cybercrime.
11.10 – 11.20 Mr Üllar Lanno, Estonian Forensics Science Institute.
The beginning of IT forensics in Estonia or how the 2CENTRE Estonia started
11.20 – 11.50 Coffe-break
11.50 – 12.20 Plenary Session 2
Mr Gert Jervan, Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology; Mrs Anu Baum, 2CENTRE Estonia; Rain Ottis, TUT Centre of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security. TUT Cyber centre – past, present and future
12.20 – 12.25 The importance of the establishment of 2CENTRE Estonia. Welcoming word by Minister of the Justice of the Republic of Estonia, Andres Anvelt
12.25 – 12.50 Signing the memorandum of association of TUT Centre of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security
12.50 – 13.30 Panel Discussion – Erkki Truve, Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Andres Anvelt, Priit Pärkna, moderated by Gert Jervan, Dean of IT faculty of TUT
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 14.50 Ms Ann Mennens – B-CCentre (Belgium). The B-CCENTRE, establishing exchange and cooperation between academia, public and private sector in Belgium: a major challenge
14.50 – 15.10 Ms Cheryl Baker – University College Dublin (Ireland)
Success story of the university (UCD), IT-forensics in Ireland, Irish experience and challenges in the global forensics market
15.10 – 15.40 Coffe-break
15.40 – 16.00 Mr Tanel Tammet, Mr Rain Ottis, Mr Jüri Vain. Introduction of the Four Projects (e-Crime, ECESM, SEREIN, IT-Akadeemia)
16.00 – 16.30 Mr Andres Kütt – Advisor at Estonian Information System’s Authority. E-state, e-governance & e-citizen or why we need experts in digital forensics.
16.30 – 17.00 Conclusions of the Day 1
19.00 – 22.00 Reception hosted by prof Erkki Truve, Vice rector of Tallinn. University of Technology (admittance based on earlier registration). House of Brotherhood of the Blackheads
Pikk str 26, 10133 Tallinn
Phone: +372 631 3199

Conference CyberCrime 2014, day 2 (all day in English), 13.11.2014

Moderator Olaf Maennel
08.45 – 09.15 Registration
09.15 – 10.00 Gorazd Božič, Slovenia
Incident Response and CERT Cooperation in the Modern Age
10.00 – 10.15 Coffee break
10.15 – 11.00 Varis Teivāns, Deputy Manager of CERT.LV
“Role of Digital Forensics in Fight Against Cybercrime in Baltic States”
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.00 Matthew Sorell, Australia
Beyond metadata: non-cooperative provenance tracing of digital photography
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Nickolas Falkner, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Security and Automated Configuration: Where Standards and Policy Fail, Complexity Will Not be Enough to Save Us.
14.15 – 15.00 Pavel Laptev, Estonia
Cyber Forensics view from the Estonian Forensic Science Institute
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.00 Gergely Toth, Deloitte Cyber Security Team
An Industry perspective on cyber security challenges
16.00 – 16.40 Olaf Maennel, Professor, Tallinn University of Technology.
Summarizing the 2’nd day of the conference

Links:
http://www.conference-expert.eu/en/cybercrime-conference-2014/162-event-programme
https://www.b-ccentre.be/12-13-november-tallinn-international-cybercrime-conference-2014/

PacSec 2014: Internet voting and signing legally binding documents over the Internet

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“Internet voting and signing legally binding documents over the Internet”
Harri Hursti, Margaret MacAlpine,

Internet Voting initiatives are discussed around the world and the common claim made is that no successful attack against an Internet Voting system have ever been demonstrated. This is not the case anymore.

Also, there has been a drive from Estonia to Taiwan to deploy national ID cards enabling paperless legal document systems. Important lessons are now learned about how not to do that.

Two countries in the world have been deploying Internet Voting larger scale : Estonia and Norway. In Norway the deployment of Internet Voting was always labeled as a trial, leaving Estonia as the only prominent country to perform general elections deployment, in the last election, over 31% of all votes were cast over the Internet.

After the recommendation of Mr. Hursti in October 2013, the Centre Party of Estonia invited an independent team of security researchers as election observers, a team of 4 international experts: Margaret MacAlpine, Jason Kitcat, Alex Haldermand and Harri Hursti. As a result, a variety of deficienies and vulnerabilities were discovered. Partially as result of publishing these discoveries, Norway announced the termination of their Internet Voting experiments, stating that the risks are outweighting the benefits.

Estonia published a partial source code of their election system, namely they have published most of the server-side code, but without the client. This allowed the researchers to build a fully functional copy of the Estonian election system into a laboratory environment to develop and test fully-functional attacks.

The Estonian government has also announced a new initiative: E-Citizenship. Under Estonian law, any document cryptographically signed with a National ID card is legally as binding as if the document were signed and notarized. Under the Estonian E-Citizenship initiative, non-residents and non-citizens can apply for E-Citizenship and enjoy various benefits for handling their business and lives as virtual EU citizen. The heart of this initiative is legal document handling with an ID card issued.

Client-side attacks developed and demonstrated against the Estonian Internet Voting system have extremely far reaching implications towards the heart and core of the Estonian E-government, and global implications as almost anyone can become an Estonian E-Citizen.

Links:
https://pacsec.jp/speakers.html?language=en

SK Annual Conference 2014

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SK Annual Conference 2014 took place in November 6, 2014.

9:00-9:45 Registration and coffee
9:45-9:55 Drone presentation, Jaan Kronberg
10:00-10:05 Opening remarks by SK CEO Kalev Pihl
10:05-10:30 SK overview of the 2014 and NutiKaitse 2017, Kalev Pihl​​, SK
10:30-10:45 e-Residence, Kaspar Korjus, Estonian Development Fund
10:45-11:20 What will happen in January 1, 2015? (BDOC and Mobile-ID), Liisa Lukin, SK
11:20-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:20 eIDAS, Mait Heidelberg, MKM
12:20-12:45 International DigiDoc client, Jaan Murumets, SK
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Online Arms Race, Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:30 New Generation of eID Smartcard, Andreas Lehmann, Trüb Baltic AS
15:30-16:00 eID future trends, Tarvi Martens, SK
16:00-16:20 Questions and Answers
16:20-16:30 Closing remarks and prize lottery
16:30-17:00 Scandinavian experience, Alev Ström
17:00-17:30 Evening snack

Links:
https://sk.ee/ettevottest/aastakonverents-2014/