3-4 June, Location: Cybercampus Sweden, Valhallavägen 79 (KTH Campus), Stockholm
Tuesday, 3rd June 2025:
10:30: Arrival, Coffee for early arrivals
11:00: Welcome & Introduction – Paola Lundén & Felix Knutas (Cybercampus), Simone Fischer-Hübner (SWITS Coordinator) – Lecture hall on 5th floor
Short research group presentations (2-3 minutes each):
BTH, University of Borås, Chalmers University of Technology, Försvarshögskola, Jönköping University, KAU, KTH, Linköping University, Luleå University, Lund University, MDU, MSB, University of Skövde, Stockholm University, Umeå University, Uppsala University, Örebro University, RISE, NTNU
12:15: Lunch
13:15 -14:00: PhD student presentations – Session 1: Cybersecurity and AI (Chair: Christian Rohner) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
The Alchemy of AI and Cybersecurity: Who Shapes, Frames, and Evaluates AI for Cybersecurity? Christian Gustavsson (Linköping University)
Application of Generative AI in Information Security Research – a Systematic Literature Review, Leila Aro-Sati, Fredrik Karlsson, Shang Gao, Elham Rostami (Örebro University)
Securing the Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges in the Serverless World, Adil Bin Bhutto, Monowar Bhuyan (Umeå University)
14:00: Short Break
14:05-14:35:PhD student presentations – Session 2: Web Security (Chair: Mikael Asplund) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
SpiderSapien: Client-Centric Crawler and Security Scanner, Eric Olsson, Benjamin Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology), Adam Doupé (University of Arizona), Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology)
Securing GitHub Workflows Against API Abuse in Software Supply Chains, Mojtaba Moazen, KTH
14:35: Coffee
15:00 -15:30: PhD student presentations – Session 3: Hardware & IoT Security (Chair: Farzaneh Karegar) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for Low-Power RISC-V Devices, Asrin Abdollahi (RISE)
EagerTAP — Pre-evaluation for data minimization on TAPs, Daniel Freiermuth, Andrei Sabelfeld and Daniel Hedin (Chalmers University of Technology)
Short Break
15:35-16:05: PhD student presentations – Session4: Network Security I (Chair: Panos Papadimitratos) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
Evaluating the Viability of Computational Offloading for Vehicles Under Adverse Network Conditions (Samuel Bach (AztaZero & KAU), Victor Jarlow (AstaZero), Anna Brunström, Leonardo Martucci (KAU), and Timo Kero (AstaZero)
DDoSimu5G: A Simulation-Based Study of Temporal Botnet DDoS Attack Impact on 5G+ Network KPIs, Karim Khalil, Christian Gehrmann, Sara Ramezanian (Lund University)
Or in parallel (15:35-16:05):
Visit Cybercampus “Royal Hacking Lab” – tour and demonstrations (Emre Süren) – 4th floor
16:10: Diversity matters: shaping an inclusive future in cybersecurity (Chair: Paola Lundén, Cybercampus) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor:
Panelists: Louise Yngström (SU / DSV), Ala Sarah Alaqra (KAU), Navya Sivaraman (Linköping University), Pernilla Rönn (Women4Cyber), Joakim Kävrestad (Jönköping University).
16:50 – Welcome by David Olgart (Director of Cybercampus Sweden)
17:00 – 17:30: Visit Cybercampus “Royal Hacking Lab” – tour and demonstrations (Emre Süren) – 4th floor
19:00 Social event (Boat Tour) & Dinner – Departure from: Skeppsbron near the Gustav III statue, below the royal castle. (Note: The boat will leave at 19:00 – so please arrive at the boat some time before 19:00). See map.
Wednesday, 4th June 2025:
8:30: Status: Cybercampus Graduate School (Simone Fischer-Hübner) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
8:50: Session 5: PhD student presentations – Session 5: Network Security II (Chair: Sara Ramezanian) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
Understanding Corporate Ransomware – A Case Study in the Nordics, Emil Larsson (FHS, KAU), Meiko Jensen (KAU)
PKI for 6G Satellite Communication, Arlette Houndji (RISE, KAU), Giuseppe Caso (KAU), Alfonso Iacovazzi (RISE), Simone Fischer-Hübner, Shahid Raza (RISE)
Tor4IoT: Enabling Onion Routing for the IoT, Rikard Höglund, Marco Tiloca, Christian Amsüss, Simon Bouget, and Shahid Raza (RISE)
9:35: Invited Talk: Preparing for EU Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and National Calls – Senja Nordström, Veronica Fransson (NCC-SE, MSB) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
10:00 – 11:30: Poster Session (Chair: Christine Grosse):
Poster Pitches by PhD students & Cybersecurity projects – Poster Exhibition – 5th and 4th floor (2 minutes per pitch)
PhD Student posters:
- First Person Attacker Simulation in MAL, Sandor Berglund, Matthias Ekstedt (KTH)
- Intrusion Detection System in Digital Twins for Industrial Control Systems, Sahar Zamanian, Maria Kuhl (Lund University)
- Exposing confidential WASM code in AMD SEV, Markus Berthilsson, Christian Gehrmann (Lund University)
- PrivTAP: A usable privacy assistant for Trigger-Action Platforms, Janek Stoppkotte (Chalmers University of Technology)
- A Physical Layer Security Framework for Industrial Sensor Network Utilizing Integrated Infrared Handshaking and Visual Light Communication, Ramin Irani (BTH, ArkiPelag), Siamak Khatibi (ArkiPelag)
- CurricuLLM: Designing a Personalized and Future-Proof Cybersecurity Curriculum using Fine-Tuned LLMs, Arthur Nijdam, Sara Ramezanian, Valtteri Niemi, Harri Kåhkönen, Paul Stankovski Wagner (Lund University)
- Adversarial Malware Generation, Reethika Ambatipudi (RISE, KAU)
- Multi-party Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption, Anton Israelsson (RISE)
- Starting Where It Hurts: Identifying Critical Business Processes for Value-Driven Risk Management, Anton Holmström, Simon Andersson (Luleå University of Technology), and Tero Päivärinta (University of Oulu)
- Graph Neural Networks for intrusion/anomaly detection, Zenlu Sun (Uppsala University)
Project posters:
- CyberSecIT, Victor Morel (Chalmers University of Technology)
- Incredilab, Ala Sarah Alaqra (KAU)
- Cross-border Cyber Capacity (CBCC) – Neshe Tuna (Compare), Ala Sarah Alaqra, Farzaneh Karegar, Meiko Jensen (KAU), Mudassar (NTNU)
- VR Lab, Meiko Jensen, Jonathan Magnusson (KAU) – demo
- Cyber Range Lite (CRL), Leonardo Martucci, Jonathan Magnusson (KAU) – demo
In parallel (10:00-11:30):
- Visit Cybercampus “Royal Hacking Lab” – tour and demonstrations (Emre Süren) – 4th floor
- Coaching /advising research proposal writers (Isaac Mintz, Senja Nordström, Veronica Fransson, NCC-SE) – 4th floor (room 429) and if more rooms are for several talks, there are also more meeting rooms in the first floor
(Coffee and snacks are served in between)
11:30-12:00: PhD student presentations – Session 6: Security Management & Communication (Chair: Ali Padyab) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
Communicating Cybersecurity Challenges and Procuring Cybersecurity Solutions. Neshe Tuna (Compare, KAU), Ala Sarah Alaqra (KAU)
Cybersecurity Economic Models: A Path to Adoption. Aous Al Salek (University of Skövde)
In parallel (11:30-12:00):
- Meeting of SIGS-CyberSec Graduate School students – 1st floor (““Gungstol rum”)
- Coaching /advising research proposal writers (Isaac Mintz, Senja Nordström, Veronica Fransson, NCC-SE)- – 4th floor (room 429) and if more rooms are for several talks, there are also more meeting rooms in the first floor
12:00: Lunch
13:00 – 14:00: PhD student presentations – Session 7: Attacks, Anomaly Detection and Defenses (Chair: Kurt Tuschku) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
Generating Synthetic Substation Communication Profiles for Cross-Substation Transfer Learning, Filip Natvig (Uppsala University), Lars Nordström (KTH), Göran N. Ericsson (Uppsala University)
Detecting Client Side Prototype Pollution, Samuel KajavaSamuel Kajava, SiKai Lu, Eric Cornelissen, Benjamin Eriksson, Musard Balliu and Andrei Sabelfeld (Joint work between Chalmers and KTH)
Saliuitl: Ensemble Salience Guided Recovery of Adversarial Patches against CNNs, Mauricio Byrd Victorica, György Dán, Henrik Sandberg (KTH)
Defending the Cloud–Edge Continuum against DDoS Attacks: Opportunities and Challenges, Yinuo Zhang, Monowar Bhuyan (Umeå University)
In parallel: Workshop: Innovation and Exploitation of Cybersecurity Research – “Multihallen” in the first floor
Lead: Göran Olofsson (Cybercampus) – with Tobias Pulls (Karlstad Internet Privacy Lab – KIPL), Mathias Ekstedt (KTH), Neshe Tuna (Compare), Christian Gehrmann (Lund University), Magnus Almgren (Chalmers).
14:00: Panel: Future Cybersecurity Research Directions – Panelists: Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology & KTH), Christian Gehrmann (Lund University), Agnieszka Kitkowska (Jönköping University), Shahid Raza (RISE, Cybercampus), Senja Nordström (MSB, NCC-SE) – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
14:45: Next steps – Cybercampus – SWITS 2026 and Graduate School, Upcoming Cybercampus PostDoc & project calls, CyberSweden 2025 conference & Summing up – Lecture hall on the 5th floor
15:00: Coffee, end of SWITS 2025