The University of Piraeus has a Systems Security Laboratory that conducts education and research in digital systems security, information systems security, and network security. The laboratory has 3 faculty members, 6 post-doc fellows, 15 PhD students, and 60 MSc students. It has received over 5 million euros in funding for international and national research projects. The laboratory teaches security courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervises theses. It collaborates extensively with other universities and industry partners on security research.

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