2019–2020 Workshop Series: Registration Is Now Open!
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The DeapSECURE workshop series is a training to learn high-performance computational techniques as applied to cybersecurity. Come and join us, get your hands dirty while learning to use a supercomputer to address chalenging cybersecurity research. We will learn how to perform privacy-preserving computation, analyze large amounts of data, and use machine learning.
This page contain additional details that you may want to know before joining this training:
- When are the workshops?
- What will you learn in these workshops?
- What should you expect to gain out of the workshops?
- What are the prerequisite to succeed in this training program?
(The registration link is at the bottom. Please read on…)
Schedule
Fall 2019
| Date | Session | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-13 | Workshop 1 | Unraveling Cybercrime Using Supercomputer – Introduction to HPC |
| 2019-09-20 | Hackshop 1 | |
| 2019-10-04 | Workshop 2 | HPC-based Secret Computing Using Homomorphic Encryption |
| 2019-10-18 | Hackshop 2 | |
| 2019-10-25 | Workshop 3 | Get it Done Fast! Parallel Programming with OpenMP and MPI |
| 2019-11-08 | Hackshop 3 | |
| 2019-11-16 (deadline) | Competition | A “challenge” competition to really exercise the skills you learned through the preceding three workshops! |
Spring 2020 (tentative)
| Date | Session | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-24 | Workshop 4 | Spark: Leveraging Big Data for Cybersecurity |
| 2020-01-31 | Hackshop 4 | |
| 2020-02-07 | Workshop 5 | Machine Learning for Radio Frequency Signal Intelligence |
| 2020-02-14 | Hackshop 5 | |
| 2020-02-21 | Workshop 6 | Deep Learning for Security – Wireless Attacks in the Making! |
| 2020-02-28 | Hackshop 6 | |
| 2020-03-06 (deadline) | Competition | A “challenge” competition to really exercise the skills you learned through the preceding three workshops |
Each workshop and hackshop will take place on Friday afternoon, from 1pm–4pm.
Format
The DeapSECURE training program consists of three types of activities: workshops, hackshops, and competitions.
There will be six workshops in the series, covering six modules on various computing techniques. Each workshop contains 30-minute research presentation by a cybersecurity researcher (from ODU), followed by 2.5 hours of mixed lectures / hands-on activities to introduce you to one or more computational method(s). We will introduce you to the basic concepts, issues to be aware of, and some examples (real computer codes) employing those methods—no background on these methods is required. However, please also see below for prerequisites.
New in 2019: To enhance your learning experience, we have prepared six additional computing sessions, aptly called “hackshops”. A hackshop is a follow-on session to apply the computational technique introduced beforehand in the workshop(s) on a certain cybersecurity-based problem. During the hackshop, you will be actively working with instructors and TAs to build your own solution to this problem!
Your participation in the workshops is mandatory. Your participation is strongly encouraged, because we will be those ones who are building our own solution to “real-world” problems!
Prerequisites on Computing Skills
- Basic computer programming skill is required to participate in this training. You need to have some experience to write simple computer programs—about 100 lines of code or less. What language you know matters less.
Experience with command-line interface would be highly beneficial, although not required to apply.
The hands-on programs in the workshop use the following computer programming languages: (1) UNIX shell (mainly bash); (2) Python; (3) C/C++.
The workshop include short refreshers on UNIX shell and Python. For the vast majority of the workshop, only these two languages are used.
In this workshop, we do not assume or require knowledge in cybersecurity other than basic general knowledge that most Internet and computer users know.
Rules & Requirements
This is a hands-on workshop series. You are expected to use your laptop to connect to and perform exercises on ODU’s Turing supercomputer.
Please bring your own laptop to every workshop and hackshop.
A certificate of completion will be given to every participant who attend five or more workshops.
What do you expect out of this training?
Expect to get your hands dirty learning supercomputer and how to do cool stuff with supercomputers! Do not expect to become an expert on the computational techniques immediately after taking this workshop. Nevertheless, you are going to be exposed to the fundamentals of these techniques through lots of hands-on example programs. The hands-on exposure will serve as a kick-start for your journey of the world of high-performance computing and what it can do for challenges in cybersecurity. You will be able to pursue more learning on your own after attending the workshop.
What this training is NOT about: DeapSECURE is not a training on fundamentals of cybersecurity, cybersecurity operations (penetration test, intrusion detection, security scanning, etc.), cybersecurity analysis, cyber forensics, etc.
To register for DeapSECURE Workshop Series, please visit:
Acknowledgements
This training project is funded by the National Science Foundation through OAC grant #1829771.