(ISC)2 Hellenic Chapter

1. Information Security @
the University of Piraeus
The New Era of Cyber Security
University of Piraeus
8/12/2014
Sokratis K. Katsikas, Professor

2. The University of Piraeus
• Founded in 1938 as the
“Piraeus School of
Industry”
• Comprises four Schools
and nine academic
departments
• Nine BSc programmes
• Twenty six MSc
programmes
• Nine PhD programmes
• Appx 15000 students

3. The School of Information &
Communication Technologies
• Comprises two departments
– Dept. of Informatics
– Dept. of Digital Systems
• 45 faculty members
• ~2000 students

4. The Department of Digital Systems
• Founded in 1999.
• The Department of Digital Systems offers a four-year
Undergraduate Programme in “Digital Systems” (240 ECTSs), two
Postgraduate Programmes in “Technology Education and Digital
Systems” (120 ECTSs) and in “Techno-economic Management and
Digital Systems Security” (90 ECTSs) and Ph.D. studies.
• Areas of research interest include
– Network-Oriented Systems and Services
– Digital Health Services
– Telecommunication Networks and Integrated Services
– Security Systems
– Intelligent Systems and Multimedia Technologies
– Telecommunication Systems
– Technology – Enhanced Learning

5. The Systems Security Laboratory
• Education and research in
– Digital systems security
– Information systems security
– Network security
– Critical infrastructure protection
– Information security

6. The Systems Security Laboratory
• Research interests
– Secure eCommerce, eBusiness, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning
architectures and services
– Privacy Enhancing Technologies
– Development of Secure Information Systems
– Wireless and Mobile Communications Security
– Legal and Regulatory issues in Data and Privacy Protection
– Security and Privacy Economics
– Medical Informatics Security and Privacy
– Smart Card Technology and Applications
– Voice over IP Security
– Security Policies / Security Management -Risk Assessment
Methodologies
– Intrusion Detection Systems
– Security in ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

7. The Systems Security Laboratory
• Research interests
– Web Applications and Database Security
– Authentication and trust management
– Forensics
– Security and privacy on smart phones and tablet
computers
– Smart grid security
– Biometrics
– Vulnerabilities analysis, exploitation and penetration
testing

8. Staff
• Faculty: 3
– Sokratis Katsikas, Professor
– Costas Lambrinoudakis, Associate Professor
– Christos Xenakis, Assistant Professor
• Post Doc fellows: 6
• PhD students: 15
• MSc students: 60

9. Funded Research
• International R&D projects: 34 / 3,9 MEURO
• National R&D projects: 21/0,7 MEURO
• Studies: 97/2,8 MEURO
• ΕΠΕΑΕΚ projects: 25/10,4 MEURO

10. Research output
• Books: 40 (Total)/13 (2009-2013)
• Book chapters: 42 (Total)/15 (2009-2013)
• Journals: 115 (Total)/28 (2009-2013)
• Conference Proceedings: 153 (Total)/39 (2009-2013)
• General conference chairmanship: 9 (Total)/2 (2009-
2013)
• TPC chairmanship: 21 (Total)/14 (2009-2013)
• TPC membership: 401 (Total)/246 (2009-2013)
• Citations: 1821 (SK)
• h-index: 23 (SK)
• PhDs awarded

11. Undergraduate studies
• Courses taught
– Security policies and management (ΨΣ 801) 5th sem.
– Information Systems Security (ΨΣ 802) 6th sem.
– Network security (ΨΣ 803) 6th sem.
– Privacy enhancing technologies (ΨΣ 807) 6th sem.
– Cryptography (ΨΣ 806) 7th sem.
– Mobile and wireless communications security (ΨΣ
804) 8th sem.
• Undergraduate theses supervision

12. Postgraduate studies
• MSc Programme on “Digital Systems Security”
• 3 semesters (2 taught + 1 thesis)
• 30 students per cohort
• Courses taught
– Network security
– Security management
– Security assessment and vulnerability exploitation
– Applied cryptography
– Information systems security
– Mobile internet security
– Digital forensics and web security
– Legal aspects of security
– Privacy enhancing technologies
– Advanced security technologies
• MSc theses supervision

13. Collaboration
• Research collaboration with dozens of
Universities, in all EU countries
• Research collaboration with industrial
partners
• ENISA
• Cyber Command, Hellenic Armed Forces
• Center for Security Studies
• ….

14. Contacts
• Sokratis Katsikas: ska@unipi.gr
• Costas Lambrinoudakis: clam@unipi.gr
• Christos Xenakis: xenakis@unipi.gr