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NISlab - Norwegian Information Security laboratory

NISlab is the information security group at Gjøvik University College, and is a part of the Faculty for Computer Science and Media Technology. The group conducts international competitive research in several areas of information security, supervises Ph.D. research projects in this field and teaches courses in information security at the Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. level.

News

11.04.2012: 3rd NBL workshop on February 15th 2013
The Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory is planning to organize the annual workshop on February 15th next year. Keep this day in your time schedule and contact our organizer Bian Yang for more information!

11.04.2012: New Researchers at NISlab
NISlab welcomes our new postdoctoral researcher Raghavendra Ramachandra and two new PhD students Anika Pflug and Guoqiang Li as well as our guest master student Aurelien Tamisier from ENSICAEN. Anika is currently located at CASED (Germany) and will focus on 'Ear Recognition for Automatic Identification' under the supervision of Christoph Busch. Raghavendra and Guoqiang are working within the FIDELITY project.

01.02.2011: NISlab part of FIDELITY project
NISlab is participant of a new Seventh Framework Programme large-scale integrated project. It has a volume of more than 12M€ and is funded for 48 month. The projects acronym FIDELITY stands for 'Fast and trustworthy Identity Delivery and check with ePassports leveraging Traveler privacy'.

12.12.2011: Geir Olav Dyrkolbotn defends PhD-thesis
On Monday, 12th of December, Geir Olav Dyrkolbotn defended his doctoral thesis "Reverse Engineering Microprocessor Content Using Electromagnetic Radiation", after a successful trial lecture about anonymity in partially trusted networks. Read more >>

10.12.2011: Accepted Grant from Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Programme 2012
PhD student Hai Thanh Nguyen with supervision of Professor Katrin Franke and support of Dean Morten Irgens at NISLab recently recieved a grant from the Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Programme 2012 of The Research Council of Norway. Following this programme, Hai Thanh Nguyen will be working with Professor Manfred Warmuth at University California Santa Cruz, USA on several machine learning topics for security and forensic from 1-July-2012. Read more >>

08.12.2011: Best Presentation Award at PhD Workshop hosted by the Norwegian Research School of Technology
On the 7-8 December, 2011 the Norwegian Research School of Technology arranged a PhD workshop at campus Grimstad at the University of Agder. The workshop was the forum for PhD students in Norway to present their works. PhD student Hai Thanh Nguyen from NISLab has received the Best Presentation Award for his work on "Towards a Generic Feature-Selection Measure for Intrusion Detection" in ICT section.

24.11.2011: Knut Wold successfully defends his PhD
Knut Wold is the first PhD candidate out of NISlab's own PhD track who defended his thesis. His work is entitled: "Security Properties of a Class of True Random Number Generators in Programmable Logic". Read more >>

01.11.2011: Presentation on Filter Array For Multispectral Acquisition
Xingbo Wang, from GUC's Colorlab, will present on Filter Array for Multispectral Acquisition, with a focus on the Design of Spectral Filters, Spatial Arrangement, Demosaicing, and Application to Biometrics. The talk will take place on November 9th, 14:00-14:40 in room A110, guests are highly appreciated. Read more >>

31.10.2011: Guest presentation on Secure Social Service Hosting in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Kalman Graffi from University of Paderborn, Germany, is giving a presentation on Tuesday 1st of November. Employees, students and everybody interested is welcome to join his presentation in room A-110 from 14:30-15:30. Read more >>

21.10.2011: Guest presentation on palm vein, template aging, multimodal biometrics
Shigefumi Yamada from Fujitsu, Japan, is visiting our lab on Monday 24th of October. Everybody is welcome to join his presentation in room A-111 from 14:00-16:00. Read more >>

05.10.2011: New research positions
NISlab is recruiting: 4 positions in biometrics, computational forensics and machine learning are offered to interested researchers. Read more >>

01.10.2011: HiG team has great success in CtF
Friday night 23 students from HiG formed a team to compete with 77 teams from all over the world in a contest in information security. The goal of this "Capture the flag" competition in information security was to investigate and protect a computer system under time pressure and to exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems of the other teams. Read more >>

24.08.2011: NISLab welcomes new PhD students
Our team is growing, three new Information Security PhD students joined NISLab. We welcome Sandra Khan, Martin Olsen and Goitom Weldehawaryat in our international environment. Also a warm welcome to our visiting ERASMUS PhD students from Brno University of Technology, Ondřej Dluhoš and Josef Hájek.

Distinct Forensic Lecture on Mobil / device forensics and Cyber crime / law 20.05.2011, 10-14:00, Room A113
Everybody is invited to a Distinct Forensic Lecture with State Prosecutor (Førstestatsadvokat) Inger Marie Sunde from Norwegian Police, Oslo. Her talk on will focus on cybercrime and law. In addition, we have invited two special investigators from the High Tech Crime Unit in Kripos, Ketil Froyn and Olav Tolo, talking about mobil/device forensics Read more >>

NISlab will be part of FRISC value network
FRISC stands for "Forum for Research and Innovation in Secure Computing". The FRISC value network is a development of the NISNET resource network paid for by the VERDIKT program since 2007. FRISC is based on the program's pillar "Security, privacy and vulnerability".
FRISC shall contribute to the dissemination and profiling of research challenges, results and innovation in information security with an international perspective. FRISC shall also contribute with strategic recommendations to a research agenda in information security. FRISC wishes to provide a platform on which new ideas are created for new innovative products and services that can be developed and marketed by relevant actors. All this is to be achieved by establishing meeting opportunities and creating dialogue among and between researchers, companies and the public sector to exploit results of research projects. This network project comprises 16 activities over four years with 64 events in total. The network's activity will be cross-disciplinary aimed at communication technology related to VERDIKT's theme "Internet of the future". NISlab is one of the more than 30 founding members of FRISC.

Scientific Presentation by Siv Hilde Houmb: 18.05.2011, 09:00, Room "Ørneredet"
Title of the presentation is "Using Real Open Thinking to Improve Decision Making in Security Investment". You are all invited to join this presentation. The presentation will be 45 minutes and there will be time for questions afterwards. You will find a short abstract of the presentation as well as a short bio of Siv Hilde Houmb here >>

Scientific Presentation by Stewart Kowalski: 12.04.2011, 10:00, Room "Ørneredet"
The title of the presentation is "Modeling the Attacker". Again, time for questions and discussions is planned after the talk. Abstract and short bio here >>

Scientific Presentation by Wolfgang Boehmer: 11.04.2011, 10:30, Room "Ørneredet"
Join the presentation "Information Security Management Systems Cybernetics". After the talk there will be time for questions and discussions. Abstract and short bio here >>

Scientific Presentation by Lothar Fritsch: 28.03.2011, 10:00, Room "Ørneredet"
Title of the invited presentation is "Management of Privacy Risks in Information Systems". After the talk there will be time for questions and discussions. Abstract and short bio here >>

Scientific Presentation by Finn Olav Sveen: 24.03.2011, 10:00, Room "Ørneredet"
Everybody is invited to join this presentation. Title: "The Dynamics of Incident Reporting Systems". The presentation will be 45 minutes and there will be time for questions afterwards. Abstract and short bio here >>

Opening ceremony great success
The opening ceremony of the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory was a great success. The Minister of Research and Higher Education, Ms. Tora Aasland, hold a laudation and formally opened the biometrics lab with the cut of the ribbon. We further received a lot of positive feedback and the event was the starting point for great discussions and new projects. Please find some of the impressions from this day here >>

Distinct Forensic Lecture by Professor Petter Gottschalk: 25.02.2011, 10:00, Room A226
Prof. Gottschalk from the Handelshøyskolen BI, Oslo will give a talk with the title "White-collar crime and Knowledge management in policing financial crime". His talk on White-collar crime is in the challenging intersection of economics and finance, forensics and legal aspects as well as knowledge discovery and management. Everyone is invited to join. Read more >>

Norwegian Biometric Laboratory presentation by Prof. Rosenberger: 22.02.2011, 13:45-15:15, Room A126
The presentation by Prof. Rosenberger will focus on biometric keystroke dynamics research done at the GREYC laboratory and will be preceded by a presentation by Ass. Prof. Patrick Bours from the Norwegian Information Security Laboratory introducing the topic. Read more >>

Biometrics and Online-Banking Workshop (February 15th, 10:00-16:00, Room K102)
The workshop is dedicated on new perspectives for secure financial transactions that are protected with a biometric authentication protocol. The event will bring together the biometrics community and representatives of the major European banking institutions. Upon the occasion of the workshop GUC's Biometrics Lab will be formally opened under the participation of international biometric industry. Read more >>