Perspectives of Cyber Security

Dear Students,

happy new year to all of you!

In order to receive a grade at the end of the semester, you have to be officially registered in LSF (the deadline, as stated on the CMS POSER website was Nov 25)

It seems some people are not registered. I talked to the examination office and they will make an exception. But we have to hurry: Please add your details in the following spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTgzolXg-g-L8r7FItwCrg4xIisy7fRRYuvowUC0NA4/edit?usp=sharing

until Friday 13:00

 

Thanks,
Stefan

Dear students,

I wanted to give you some feedback on today's talk so that you know how I judge the quality and it's easier to judge for you what is good and what is bad. 

First, a big shout-out to the first team as they couldn't use the opportunity to watch another group make mistakes and they were moving in unchartered waters.

My assessment:

Overall, I think the self-set goal of the setting (car managers) was well implemented and reflected in the pitch itself. The gimmicks like business cards, the anecdote in the beginning and the pamphlet you threw on the table were fitting for that scenario. They show that you put thought in your pitch design. Well done!

However, there were also a few things that can be improved and that the next teams should avoid. This time, because you were first, I ignored them ;-)

• the overall tone was high-level marketing without substantial evidence to back them up: e.g., "we're the best out there" is something everybody could say. You were allowed to make up your idea and your progress, so you could have just pretended to have performed better than a competitor. For example, include a table that shows who else is in that market and choose realistic features to compare yourself with them. Be honest about them, so it's not necessary to be better in all categories in that comparison
• some managers (as they were the fictive target audience) might have been offended by the bullish and partly arrogant confidence in your product. Confidence is very necessary but should be conveyed through rational arguments such as statistics, comparisons, user studies or simply customers that you already have

 

Best,

Stefan

You've been assigned to the following topics:

• The matriculation numbers in red already start today. Your turn is next week. 
• One team consists of three members
• Sven's topic has two teams because more students wanted to present

Topic	Matriculation Number
Stefan Making Embedded Systems in Cars Ready for the Future	2581237
	2581419
Katharina Usable Security Challenges in the Internet of Things	2570621
	2568326
	2577211
Sven Two-Factor-Authentication (2FA)	2572633
	2572633
Sven Two-Factor-Authentication (2FA)	2565064
	2581749
Jilles Determining Fairness of Automated Decisions	2581838
	2581618
Christian Generic Methods to Detect Malicious Intent	2565209
	2553458
Nils Securing Legacy Industrial Control Systems	2581724
	2558867

 

Dear students,

finally, I have received feedback from all people who will present and the topics are up for selection.

1. Have a look at all the topics on the CMS website (Faculty research only)
2. Think about which ones you like and want to present in the week following that topic
3. Please enter your preference until tomorrow Nov 05, 23:59
4. You'll get the assignment on Wednesday before the noon

You'll be assigned in groups. If you want to work with somebody in particular, please enter that Name in the link above and make sure to choose exact same preferences (otherwise it becomes unsolvable).

Apologies for the short call for action, but I didn't receive feedback earlier.

The first POSER interactive lecture will take place 16:00 today in room 0.07 (glass meeting room behind staircase) in the CISPA building.

I want to encourage close interaction and hence I chose a meeting room with a big round table instead of the lecture hall. We should all fit in there. 

See you soon!

Dear students,

the first lecture will take place next Wednesday from 16:00 to 17:30. Please have a look at the format of the lecture here:

https://cms.cispa.saarland/poser

On Oct 30, we will also publish the upcoming topics of which you need to choose one. The dates and people are however not fixed yet as I'm still waiting for replies from external speakers (entrepreneurs, founders, ...).

See you next week!