We are thrilled to welcome you to the PhD defence of Lejla Islami. The thesis is entitled "Envisioning Usable Privacy in Smart Environments: A Technical and Intercultural Perspective" with the participation of Assoc. Prof. Ali Padyab (Högskolan i Skövde) as the opponent.

Supervisors: Simone Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad University) and Agnieszka Kitkowska (Jönköping University).

More information: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Akau%3Adiva-99464

#PhDdefence #privacy #usableprivacy #dataprotection #humanaspects #HCI

We are pleased to announce that the NordSec'24 conference will take place at Karlstad University this year.

Please consider submitting your work to NordSec'24 and help us share the CFP with your network.

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Call for Papers

The 29th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec) 2024

6-7 November 2024, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

Read all the detail on the CFP: https://nordsec2024.kau.se/call-for-papers/

Technical Program Committee:
https://nordsec2024.kau.se/committees/

Recruiting Industrial PhD Position in Cybersecurity

The industrial PhD student will be hosted by RISE’s Cybersecurity Unit in Stockholm and will be enrolled at Karlstad University in Sweden.

Read all about it here: https://www.ri.se/sv/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/phd-position-cybersecurity

#phdeducation #cybersecurity #risesweden #karlstaduniversity #phdposition #security #informationsecurity

PriSec researchers participated in The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast, organized by Debra Farber JD, CISSP, FIP.

Full episode here: https://shiftingprivacyleft.buzzsprout.com/2059470/13499257-s2e27-automated-privacy-decisions-usability-vs-lawfulness-with-simone-fischer-hubner-victor-morel

Know more about the research of Victor Morel (Chalmers University) and Simone Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad University & Chalmers University), where they discuss a recent paper, "Automating Privacy Decisions – where to draw the line?" and their proposed classification scheme.

#privacy #gdpr #research #usableprivacy #dataprotection

3 Industrial PhD positions in the Swedish Industrial Graduate School (SIGS-CyberSec):

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/swedish-industrial-graduate-school

#cybersecurity #phdposition #research #karlstaduniversity

Great news! Karlstad University is involved in the investment of a national Cybercampus.

Simone Fischer-Hübner, professor of computer science at Karlstad University and head of the PriSec research group, sits in the planning and project group for Cybercampus and has an active role in the new Swedish cyber security landscape.

Now more about it here:
https://press.kau.se/posts/pressreleases/karlstads-universitet-med-i-satsningen-pa-nat

#cybersecurity #cybersecurityeducation #research #education #karlstaduniversity #cybercampus #sweden

Hot off the press!

PriSec is proud to participate in the DIGItal Early Labour (DIGI-EL) project. The paper that describes the development of the "Early Labour App" is now published.

The DIGI-EL project is led by Karin Ängeby (Women's Health Care Department at Region Värmland) and Anna Nordin (Nursing School at Karlstad University). PriSec researchers have provided support in the app development process to enhance the app's privacy and security.

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105139

The project Cross Border Cyber ​​Capacity (CBCC) is now starting, a three-year development project to strengthen business development in the cyber security area and, at the same time, increase access to expertise and knowledge sharing. In the project, several prominent actors in the cyber security area in Sweden and Norway collaborate under the leadership of the tech innovation cluster Compare.

More info (in Swedish): https://lnkd.in/dzNFvwnf

#cybersecurity #innovation #capacitybuilding