Centre for Cyber Security

No.

Date

Event

1

13 January 2016

Attended "Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Peneraju Pembangunan dan Pelaksanaan Skim Penilaian dan Pensijilan Produk Kriptografi Terpercaya (SPPPKT)" to access the security of submitted cryptographic algorithms.

 

2

20 January 2016

Discussed possible research collaboration with K-Channel and Maybank on mobile payment.

 

3

23 February 2016

Setup a boost on "Bio-Crypto Authentication Solution" in The Engineering Fiesta 2016.

4

10 March 2016

Attended "Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Kerja Pembangunan dan Pelaksanaan Skim Penilaian dan Pensijilan Produk Kriptografi Terpercaya (SPPPKT) Bil. 2/2016" to to access the security of submitted cryptographic algorithms.

 

5

28 March 2016

Discussed possible research collaboration with SecureKi.

6

4 April 2016

Discussed possible research collaboration with IRIS.

7

7-8 April 2016

Attended "Bengkel Bagi Membincangkan Pelan Peembangunan Senarai Algoritma Kriptografi Negara (MySEAL)" to propose criteria for trusted cryptographic algorithms that supports Dasar Kriptologi Negara.

 

8

13 April 2016

Discussed possible research collaboration with MIMOS.

9

28 May 2016

Attended and presented at UTAR R&D Colloquium 2016 (1.0).

 

10

14 July 2016

Invited external speaker (Associate Professor Dr. Andrew B.-J. Teoh) from Yonsei University, Korea to give a talk on machine learning and discuss possible research collaboration.

On 14th of July 2016, Dr. Andrew Teoh (associate professor from Yonsei University, Korea) visited Centre for Cyber Security for his research sharing and discussions with the member of CCS. During the visit, Dr. Andrew Teoh gave a presentation on "From Perceptron to Deep ConvNets: Achievements & Challenges in Visual Application". In the talk, Dr. Andrew focused on convolution networks (ConvNet), which was shown enormously successful in visual related applications. He gave a historical overview of neural networks and Convnet research by tracing back to four decades ago. The fundamental ingredients as well as the strengths and weaknesses of Convnet were discussed. The reasons behind the recent success of Convnet and its high impact results were highlighted too. Some photos captured during the talk are shown as follows:

 Besides, Dr. Andrew Teoh met some of CCS postgraduate students to discuss their research on biometric recognition.  Recently, the discussion result on "Cancellable Iris Template Generation based on Indexing-First-One Hashing" (a joint work between Yen-Lung Lai, Zhe Jin, Andrew Beng-Jin Teoh, Bok-Min Goi, Wun-She Yap, Tong-Yuen Chai and Christian Rathgeb) had been published in Pattern Recognition (click here for more details on this work).

11

15 July 2016

Signed MoU with SecureKi.

UTAR staff with delegates from SecureKi, MDEC, Glocomp, and GCIS

UTAR and SecureKi signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Sungai Long Campus on 15 July 2016. Signing on behalf of the parties were UTAR President Ir Prof Academician Dato' Dr Chuah Hean Teik and SecureKi Sdn Bhd Chief Executive Officer Brandon Low. It was witnessed by UTAR Vice-President for R&D and Commercialisation Prof Ir Dr Lee Sze Wei and SecureKi Solutions Director Ching Kim Joo. Also present at the signing ceremony was Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) Head of Technology Innovation Ecosystem and Innovation Capital Pak Mei Yuet, MDEC Head of Information Security Victor Lo, Glocomp Executive Director and PIKOM Council member Alex Liew, and GCIS Executive Director Chan Tze Ming.

Both parties hoped that this MoU can promote collaboration in the context of cyber security which includes aspects such as R&D activities, sharing of ideas and facilities, enhancing research and curriculum development, providing industrial attachments for students and staff, and holding seminars, conferences, and workshops that are relevant to the industry.

"I hope that this MoU will be an active one which UTAR will work together with SecureKi to ensure our students are not only trained in traditional theoretical studies but also taught the real life applications in the industry to cope with challenges brought about by technological advances", remarked Prof Chuah.

"I am thankful for such a collaboration with UTAR and I hope that through this MoU we can collaborate in key areas such as cyber security-related R&D activities; the exchange of ideas from both parties; and the facilitation of industry studies for the purpose of enhancing learning experiences, professional and future development, and also the industrial placements of UTAR students; while producing local cyber security talent with innovative and global mind-sets", said Low.

Prof. Chuah and Low

The Centre for Cyber Security (CCS) aims to attract significant external research grants and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration, while demonstrating national leadership and gaining international recognition for excellence in the area of cyber security. The main objectives of CCS are to promote R&D among its members, commercialise research output, encourage technology transfer, and provide seminars and training in cyber security to enhance the competitiveness of local industries in the global market. Its research focuses on areas such as biometric security, information security, implementation and systems security, information privacy, and network coding for security.

CCS Chairperson Dr Yap Wun She said, "We hope to secure more grants so that we can focus on reducing gaps between theory and practical application in the industry, while boosting the commercialisation of products."

12

19 July 2016

Signed MoU with Feng Chia University and setup a joint cyber security centre.

 

13

20-21 July 2016

Become committee member of MySEAL and attended "Bengkel Bagi Membincangkan Pelan Pembangunan Senarai Algoritma Kriptografi Negara (MySEAL)".

 

14

23 July 2016

Setup a booth on University-Industry Link Campus Open Day.

 

15

23 August 2016

Attended the coaching session organized by MDEC for their RISE funding.

 

16

26 August 2016

Attended presentation by EV Dynamics on its developed GPS based security mobile app.

 

17

12 September 2016

Discussed possible research collaboration with NextLabs.

 

18

15 October 2016

Attended Malaysia Taiwan Higher Education Forum to seek future collaboration with Taiwan universities.

 

19

22 October 2016

Attended and presented at UTAR R&D Colloquium 2016(2.0) - Innovation in the Digital Age.

 

20

28 November 2016

Attended University-Industry Forum.

 

21

30 November 2016

Attended NextGen Security Researcher Matchmaking Session to seek future collaboration with industry.

 

22

7 December 2016

Attended Explore, discover, connect and collaborate with DIMECC to seek future collaboration with industry.

 

23

22 December 2016

Attended Bengkel Bagi Membincangkan Pelan Pembangunan Senarai Algoritma Kriptografi Negara (MySEAL) to finalize the criteria for trusted cryptographic algorithms that supports Dasar Kriptologi Negara.

 

24

28 December 2016

Invited external speaker (Chair Professor Dr. Chang Chin-Chen) from Feng Chia University, Taiwan to give a talk on information hiding and discuss possible research collaboration.

On 28th December 2016, Prof. Chang Chin-Chen (chair professor from Feng Chia University, National Tsing Hua University, and National Chung Cheng University) visited CCS and presented two talks. Prof. Chang is also known as the Taiwan's Father of Cryptography. He is the fellow of IEEE and the fellow of IET since 1998. Until now, Prof. Chang had published more than 1300 papers.

In the first talk, Prof. Chang presented "Information Hiding Technology: Current Research and Future Trend". He introduced different information hiding techniques to the audience, such as watermarking, visual cryptography, secret sharing, steganography and reversible data hiding. Meanwhile, in the second talk, Prof. Chang shared some tricks in writing a good paper and a grant proposal. Some important tricks include start writing earlier, proposal must have more value as compared to the budget requested, build social network and build a better academic resume.

Below are the photos captured during Prof. Chang's visit: