Nordic Security Days 2008
Security for the Citizens  
 
 
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October 12The Nordic Security Days 2008 are over. For information on NordSec 2009 please click here.
July 28Registration page open.
July 20Flyer available.
IT Security for Citizens
If you develop widely used IT-related services and products that depend on secure management of identities, the results developed in this project will enable you to offer mobile authentication of users and data, using methods that are compatible with industry standards and are secure even against the most advanced attacks known.
Aspects of Security for Citizens
If you are providing Internet-based services or applications, this project works on an infrastructure that allows adapting those applications to fulfill your customers' changing security needs after the applications have been deployed. Learn how this infrastructure allows future IT landscapes to support dynamic adaptation of changing policies.
An Investigation of Citizen ICT Safety and Security Awareness
If your business model is related to IT security, this project provides you with insights into Danish citizens' awareness of critical ICT security issues, their security concerns, and their understanding of what to do. This will help you identify areas where your product may need more care, or where your users' awareness should be heightened.

Security for the Citizens

On October 8th 2008 the workshop Security for the Citizens was hosted as part of the Nordic Security Days 2008. The well-received workshop attracted 70 participants from Danish and international companies and universities, who obtained an in-depth view of the three research projects funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council under the umbrella Borgernes IT sikkerhed:

  • IT Security for Citizens develops a user friendly mobile prototype for on-line access to information with better security properties than presently used.
  • Aspects of Security for Citizens develops new techniques for retrofitting user cenctric-security concerns to already developed software.
  • An Investigation of Citizen ICT Safety and Security Awareness reveals what average citizens know about security and what we can do to help them.

The project presentations were complemented by the following invited talks:

  • The Nordic Perspective on Security
    • Svein Knapskog, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    • Erland Jonsson, Chalmers University of Göteborg, Sweden
    • Sasu Tarkoma, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • The Industrial Perspective on Security
    • John Smith, Application Security Product Specialist, IBM (UK)
    • Wolfram Schulte, Research Area Manager, Microsoft (Redmond)

Further details can be found in the detailed programme.

Pictures of the event are now available (thanks to Hubert Baumeister).