As critical infrastructure and IoT systems become increasingly interconnected and pervasive, ensuring their security and resilience against sophisticated cyber threats and ever-growing cyber-attacks is more vital than ever. The complexity and scale of these systems expose them to diverse vulnerabilities, from targeted cyber-attacks on smart grids and healthcare IoT devices to systematic threats against urban infrastructures and industrial IoT networks. Addressing these challenges demands interdisciplinary knowledge, advanced methodologies, and proactive approaches to cybersecurity. The SERICS Doctoral School: Infrastructure and IoT Systems Security offers participants comprehensive training in cutting-edge research and practices, encompassing topics such as securing IoT ecosystems, protection of critical infrastructure, and resilience strategies for interconnected systems. Through a combination of lectures, interactive workshops, and practical exercises, participants will engage deeply with contemporary security issues and explore innovative approaches to safeguarding modern infrastructure and IoT deployments. The doctoral school provides an engaging learning environment for PhD students to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and advance the state-of-the-art in infrastructure and IoT systems security.
Topic 1 Security Orchestration in the continuum: Challenges and Opportunities
Hours: 2
Speaker: Antonio Skarmeta
Speaker Bio:
Antonio Skarmeta is Full Professor at the University of Murcia, Spain. He has worked on different research projects in the networking, security and IoT and 5G area.
Topic 2 Adaptive Artificial Intelligence for concept drift awareness in Cybersecurity
Hours: 2
Speaker: Alessandra De Paola
Speaker Bio:
Alessandra De Paola is Associate Professor at the University of Palermo. Her current research interests focus on Distributed and Adaptive Artificial Intelligence.
Topic 3 Chaining digital services in multi-ownership environments: from IoT to the the cloud
Hours: 2
Speaker: Matteo Repetto
Speaker Bio:
Matteo Repetto, PhD, is Senior Researcher at CNR-IMATI. His main research interests include cyber-security architectures for multi-ownership digital service chains.
Topic 4
Hours: 2
Speaker: Andrea Continella