TrustCom 2023
This year, the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2023) was held in Exeter, UK. I am, as traditional, bringing you a short report about the event, as well as the exciting talks, and my experience in the town. The conference is mostly academically oriented but enjoyable for both academic and business-oriented attendees.
Exeter
Exeter is a lovely county town of Devon, South West England. I travel to the conference a day before, on Halloween night. The atmosphere was magical, and I even saw several fantastic costumes. I planned to attend a special guided tour, but unfortunately, I could not make it. However, I still had time to go around the town and see a few beautiful places, such as the cathedral, Guildhall, or ruins of St Catherine’s Chapel.
Interesting Talks
There were plenty of interesting talks during the three days of the conference. You can read the full papers accessible via the conference program (you can find the link and log in information at the bottom of the first page). I would recommend giving a read to the following:
- Robustness Assessment of Biometric Authenticators by Romain Dagnas, Anis Bkakria, Reda Yaich
- Achieving Higher Level of Assurance in Privacy Preserving Identity Wallets by Benjamin Larsen, Nada El Kassem, Thanassis Giannetsos, Ioannis Krontiris, Stefanos Vasileiadis, Liqun Chen
- TouchEnc: a Novel Behavioural Encoding Technique to Enable Computer Vision for Continuous Smartphone User Authentication by Peter Aaby, Mario Valerio Giuffrida, William Buchanan, Zhiyuan Tan
- Static-RWArmor: A Static Analysis Approach for Prevention of Cryptographic Windows Ransomware by Md. Ahsan Ayub, Ambareen Siraj, Bobby Filar, Maanak Gupta
- Parallel Pattern Matching over Brotli Compressed Network Traffic by Xiuwen Sun, Guangzheng Zhang, Di Wu, Qingying Yu, Jie Cui, Hong Zhong
- CEIVS: A Scalable and Secure Encrypted Image Retrieval Scheme with Vertical Subspace Clustering by Ruizhong Du, Jing Cui, Mingyue Li, Yuqing Zhang
My Talk
I talked about a new tool for regular expression generation, GenRex. The tool was initially created to help malware analysts create and update YARA rules based on dynamic analyses and reported named objects. However, currently, we are exploring other use cases outside the named objects world.
I am also working on open-sourcing the project and will share more details in the future. For now, you can read my paper GenRex: Leveraging Regular Expressions for Dynamic Malware Detection, where I also linked some resources that are already online.
TrustCom 2024
It was already announced that next year’s edition of TrustCom will be held in Sanya, the southernmost city on Hainan Island. If you are looking for an excellent academic conference (Core B currently) to present your work, I recommend checking TrustCom out.
Note: I would like to thank the Department of Information Systems at the Faculty of Information Technology, the Brno University of Technology, for providing financial support that allowed me to visit this great conference and present my work.
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