It is impossible to imagine the calendar of many CISPA researchers without the annual
USENIX Security Symposium. The prestigious conference brings together researchers with IT professionals, system administrators and programmers, and is an important forum for the exchange of information on issues related to the security of computer systems and networks. The conference is organized by the USENIX Association, an association whose mission is to promote community support for advanced computer systems and the outreach of innovative research.
CISPA researchers at all career stages, from doctoral students to tenured faculty, will present on a variety of current research issues at the conference. Topics include automated security analysis of exposure notification systems, dealing with visual digital visual certificates, automatic detection of protocol attacks that exploit weaknesses in hash functions, and the gap between microarchitectural and architectural side channels.
Connected to USENIX is the ninth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, or SOUPS, held two days earlier at the conference venue in Anaheim. CISPA researchers are also represented there with two papers.