Centre for Information Security and Cryptography Distinguished Lecture Series

Privacy is an elusive security property: it is hard to define, model and guarantee. Information is leaked in any electronic interactions with others or with the environment and the question is what information other than what we meant to communicate, is provided to others.  This is especially important if we remember that this information may be used in future for purposes unknown to us today. In this talk we discuss this challenging area of security and look at a range of technologies that provide users with a better control of their information.

Rei Safavi-Naini is the iCORE Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada and is the director of iCORE Information Security Lab in the Department of Computer Science.     Before joining the University of Calgary in February 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute and  Centre for Information Security  at the University of Wollongong, Australia..  She has served on the program committee of major conferences in cryptology and information security including Crypto, Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt and has led a number of industry collaborative research projects.  She holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (coding theory) from University of Waterloo,   and her current research interests include information theoretic security, provable security, network security, digital and privacy rights management, and multimedia security.

Please join our FREE lecture series which is open to anyone with an interest in information security – local business, academia, students, non-specialists alike.  The speakers in this series will challenge the common problem of ensuring the integrity and privacy of data.

Complimentary coffee and cookies will be served after the lecture.