Events Calendar

19 Nov
Special Event
Computer Science Building, Room 151
Tuesday, 11/19/2019 2:30pm to 3:30pm

Can Data Provenance Put an End to the Data Breach?

 

Abstract: In a provenance-aware system, mechanisms gather and report metadata that describes the history of each data object being processed, allowing...

03 Dec
Special Event
Computer Science Building, Room 151
Tuesday, 12/03/2019 2:30pm to 3:30pm

Title:  Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus

Abstract: Although distributed consensus has been studied by for three decades, they were not deployed at a large scale until decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin....

10 Dec
Special Event
Computer Science Building, Room 151
Tuesday, 12/10/2019 2:30pm to 3:30pm
06 Oct
Security Seminar
Zoom
Tuesday, 10/06/2020 2:30pm to 3:30pm

https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/96561938920

Title: Randomness Concerns When Deploying Differential Privacy

Simson L. Garfinkel 
Senior Computer Scientist
US Census Bureau

Abstract: ...

20 Oct
Security Seminar
Virtual via Zoom
Tuesday, 10/20/2020 2:30pm to 3:30pm

https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/96561938920

Title: 
Security & Perception Systems

Abstract: 
The advent of the Internet-of-Everything era has opened the doors to security vulnerabilities...

30 Oct
Special Event
Zoom
Friday, 10/30/2020 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Matt Carter and Flemming Christensen will discuss a high-level overview of Oracle and what they do, tuning a Web Application Firewall to reduce false positives and how to test it, monitoring configuration drift of Infra...

09 Feb
Special Event
via Zoom
Wednesday, 02/09/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Professor Levine will introduce some of the amazing security, privacy, and forensics research performed by professors and students at UMass Amherst. He will provide a high-level tour of topics such as digital forensics...

28 Sep
Security Seminar
Computer Science Building, Room 150/151
Wednesday, 09/28/2022 12:20pm to 1:20pm

Digital technologies, such as mobile devices, IoT devices, social virtual reality, and social networks, play an increasingly significant role in both perpetrating harm to, and creating opportunities for, vulnerable...

22 Oct
Security Seminar
Computer Science Building, Room 150/151
Saturday, 10/22/2022 12:20pm to 1:20pm

The abundance of data, coupled with cheap and widely-available computing and storage, has revolutionized science, industry and government. Now, to a large extent, the bottleneck to obtaining actionable insights lies with...

02 Nov
Security Seminar
Computer Science Building, Room 150/151
Wednesday, 11/02/2022 12:20pm to 1:20pm

Algorithmic and data-driven technologies have permeated multiple aspects of our lives making it difficult to be disentangled from the effects of its abuses as well. Moreover, the opaqueness of these technologies...

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