PROMOTING CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY AWARENESS

As part of its mission to increase awareness of cybersecurity and privacy issues, CPI continues to produce engagement materials and increase its outreach efforts on all fronts, including to public, academic, governmental, and industry audiences. CPI is committed to developing and expanding our media platforms, along with persistently promoting cooperative efforts with a broad range of contributing sources.

CPI’S PUBLIC AND INTERNAL WEBSITES

Constantly updating and informing our membership and public interest

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

Twitter - Provides engagement with students and a vast general audience

YouTube - Publicizes our videos from CPI Talks, Behind the FireWall, and other presentations to provide ongoing examples of what we do and the folx we interact with and support

LinkedIn - Engages the professional community

NEWSLETTERS AND MAILING LISTS

CPI students mailing list - This is a low-traffic mailing list for CPI students to receive important announcements and to communicate with one another (e.g., student-only events, finding another student to help with research, etc.)

C PI seminars mailing list - This is a low-traffic mailing list where seminars, lectures, and other events related to cybersecurity and privacy (taking place across campus) are announced

CPI public mailing list - This is a low-traffic mailing list for CPI to announce its events and news updates. It is open to the general public

CPI TALKS

Public outreach lecture series

CPI TALKS

Formal Behavioral Specification Languages and Methods for Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Systems

Yash Vardhan Pant - Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo

Evolution, not Revolution: AI, Blockchain, and all the Buzzwords in Building the Regulated Web3 World

Gabriel Chan - Hong Kong Blockchain Society (HKBCS)

Subversion – From Spies to Hackers

Lennart Maschmeyer - Center for Security Studies

Digital Disinformation and Democracy

Bessma Momani - CPI & Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Shelly Ghai Bajaj - Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo ▪

Crypto for the People

Seny Kamara - Brown University

Are We Ready for the Quantum Era?

Michele Mosca - CPI, University of Waterloo and Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh - CPI, University of Waterloo

Data Breaches and Multiple Points to Stop Them

Daphne Yao - Virginia Tech

Privacy Research that Matters

Ian Goldberg - CPI, University of Waterloo and Jen Whitson - CPI, University of Waterloo

CPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022

Themes – “Addressing the Cybersecurity & Privacy Talent Gap & Data Collection and Effective Public Policy”

CPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2023

Theme – “Protecting Diverse Application Domains”

CPI IN THE MEDIA

Colin Russell was part of the panel discussing Cyber Policy and Innovation - Cyber Policy in a Dynamic Geopolitical Environment at the Cyber Future Foundation’s Cyber Future Summit 2022

CPI held a booth at the RSC Celebration of Excellence and Engagement 2023.

The COEE provides a stage to promote the latest evidence and insights from scholars across disciplines and across generations, with nearly 200 Canadian scholars being recognized for their disciplinary and career achievements.

Scientific American article featuring CPI Member Florian Kerschbaum - “Tech Companies’ New Favorite Solution for the AI Content Crisis Isn’t Enough”.

N. Asokan delivered a keynote at the 2023 ASIACCS conference in Melbourne, Australia