IC Colloquium : The Systematic Design of Privacy Technologies
Event details
Date | 13.03.2017 |
Hour | 10:15 › 11:30 |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
By : Carmela Troncoso - IMDEA Software Institute
IC Faculty candidate
Abstract :
The privacy concerns stemming from the pervasiveness of on-line services and mobile devices in our daily lives has put Privacy Technologies in the spotlight. Yet, despite the many years of research on these technologies it is still not well understood how design them, evaluate them, and incorporate them into ICT systems in a systematic manner. This lack of understanding hinders the development of solutions that enable citizens, governments, and corporations to enjoy technological progress without damaging our societal values.
In this talk I will provide an overview of my work, which aims to provide engineers with tools to reason in a systematic manner both about the design and the evaluation of privacy-preserving technologies. First, I will discuss how to embed Privacy Technologies, in the engineering of ICT systems to provide high privacy guarantees without detriment to functionality. Specifically, how to use privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives to balance privacy and service integrity. Then, I will provide means to tackle the design of Privacy Technologies based on obfuscation or anonymization that complement cryptography-based solutions when these solutions are not applicable, and means to quantify the privacy properties provided by these mechanisms. Finally, I will discuss challenges that lie ahead regarding the development of a well-established privacy engineering discipline.
Bio :
Carmela Troncoso received the Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain in 2006; and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2011. Her thesis “Design and Analysis methods for Privacy Technologies” received the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Security and Trust Management Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. She joins the IMDEA Software Institute in October 2015. Previously, she spent one year as a post-doctoral researcher at the COSIC Group (KULeuven, Belgium) and three years at the Galician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications where she was the Security and Privacy Technical Lead, leading a group of engineers delivering secure and privacy friendly solutions to the market.
Her research focuses on security and privacy, with main contributions to the field of anonymous communications and location privacy. She has published more 38 refereed scientific papers with more than 35 people, in the most prestigious venues in Security (e.g. ACM Conference on Computer Security or USENIX Security Symposium) and Privacy (Privacy Enhancing Technologies) and also in JCR journals such as the IEEE Trans.
on Information Forensics and Security. She was co-author of the Gold Award to Best Student Paper at the IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security in 2011. She has served on more than 25 program committees of international conferences of key venues in security, and has reviewed articles for numerous international journals. Currently, she is the Caspar Bowden PET Award Chair, and will be the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Program Chair of PoPETs, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, in 2018-2019.
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IC Faculty candidate
Abstract :
The privacy concerns stemming from the pervasiveness of on-line services and mobile devices in our daily lives has put Privacy Technologies in the spotlight. Yet, despite the many years of research on these technologies it is still not well understood how design them, evaluate them, and incorporate them into ICT systems in a systematic manner. This lack of understanding hinders the development of solutions that enable citizens, governments, and corporations to enjoy technological progress without damaging our societal values.
In this talk I will provide an overview of my work, which aims to provide engineers with tools to reason in a systematic manner both about the design and the evaluation of privacy-preserving technologies. First, I will discuss how to embed Privacy Technologies, in the engineering of ICT systems to provide high privacy guarantees without detriment to functionality. Specifically, how to use privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives to balance privacy and service integrity. Then, I will provide means to tackle the design of Privacy Technologies based on obfuscation or anonymization that complement cryptography-based solutions when these solutions are not applicable, and means to quantify the privacy properties provided by these mechanisms. Finally, I will discuss challenges that lie ahead regarding the development of a well-established privacy engineering discipline.
Bio :
Carmela Troncoso received the Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain in 2006; and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2011. Her thesis “Design and Analysis methods for Privacy Technologies” received the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Security and Trust Management Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. She joins the IMDEA Software Institute in October 2015. Previously, she spent one year as a post-doctoral researcher at the COSIC Group (KULeuven, Belgium) and three years at the Galician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications where she was the Security and Privacy Technical Lead, leading a group of engineers delivering secure and privacy friendly solutions to the market.
Her research focuses on security and privacy, with main contributions to the field of anonymous communications and location privacy. She has published more 38 refereed scientific papers with more than 35 people, in the most prestigious venues in Security (e.g. ACM Conference on Computer Security or USENIX Security Symposium) and Privacy (Privacy Enhancing Technologies) and also in JCR journals such as the IEEE Trans.
on Information Forensics and Security. She was co-author of the Gold Award to Best Student Paper at the IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security in 2011. She has served on more than 25 program committees of international conferences of key venues in security, and has reviewed articles for numerous international journals. Currently, she is the Caspar Bowden PET Award Chair, and will be the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Program Chair of PoPETs, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, in 2018-2019.
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- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Host : George Candea