Opening address by the National Research Foundation.

George Loh, Director (Programmes), NRF

With the trend of cloud computing, outsourcing data in the cloud has seen remarkable growth in the last decade. However, the scale and frequency of data breaches in the cloud are staggering. To address individuals’ and organizations’ data security concerns, a family of new cryptographic techniques, called attribute-based encryption (ABE), has been proposed as a promising solution for achieving efficient and scalable end-to-end data security and privacy in the cloud. This talk will give an overview on the recent progress in ABE-based secure cloud storage systems, from security assumption, system architecture, performance, to a prototype implementation.

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Robert Deng, Professor, SMU

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are often safety-critical yet they are challenging to analyse. In this talk, I will introduce our recent attempts on solving research problems associated with safety and security of CPS through techniques developed in software engineering community. I will show a practical approach which applies program mutation and machine learning to attest CPS, to detect code-modification attacks. I will conclude with a list of research questions which are yet to be solved.

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Sun Jun, Associate Professor, SUTD

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The steady rise of intelligence and autonomy over a scale of distributed, connected and smart components is heralding the era of Internet-of-Intelligence. Without adequate safeguards in place, such components can lead to terrible consequences. In this talk, I will discuss three aspects - namely, vulnerability, security and privacy of such edge–computing scenarios. The vulnerability aspect will show how a simple setup can derail sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles. The security angle will be discussed through a novel countermeasure, which, via extremely fine-grained profiling and machine learning techniques is able to thwart the latest ransomware attacks. Lastly, the privacy perspective will be presented through an innovative compression technique, realised on top of a video/image processing platform.

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Anupam Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, NTU

This talk presents the design of Bitcoin’s core innovation, the blockchain consensus protocol, in a nutshell. It explains when this protocol works securely and when its security breaks down.Our research proposes a new paradigm of solutions that is scalable without downgrading security, and its large-scale deployment in a public blockchain infrastructure. The talk will provide an overview of other pressing security challenges in the space of blockchains.

Prateek Saxena, Assistant Professor, NUS

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The National Cybersecurity R&D Programme and the National Research Foundation are proud to announce the launch of National Cybersecurity R&D (NCR) Translational Grant Call 2018: Harnessing R&D to Secure our Nation on 31 August 2018.

Join us to learn about Grant Call 2018's themes and application process.

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Karen Teh, Senior Deputy Director (National Cybersecurity R&D Directorate), NRF

Ng Il Shan, Analyst, EMA

Closing address by the Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium.

Abhik Roychoudhury, Professor, NUS