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The paper by Stefanos Leonardos, Daniel Reijsbergen and Georgios Piliouras, “Weighted Voting on the Blockchain: Improving Consensus in Proof of Stake Protocols”,  won the best paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). In the paper, a new approach for improving the performance of blockchain consensus protocols was presented. The approach was based on the weighting […]

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Coventry University on 28 March 2019 to further strengthen the collaboration partnership in research activities between the two universities. In the same event, a plague was presented to Prof Zhou Jianying, Co-Center Director of iTrust, in appreciation of the past contributions of the center.

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Two of iTrust researchers, Shrivastava Siddhant and Daniel Reijsbergen, clinched the “Innovation Award” & “Best Poster Award” in the Research Fest 2019. This is the first SUTD Community Research Conference organised by the PostDoc Society for all researchers to showcase themselves and their work via research presentations.

Siddhant presented the ongoing work in iTrust on Mixed Reality applications in securing critical water […]

The paper by Dr Riccardo Taormina and Asst Prof Stefano Galelli, “Deep Learning Approach to the Detection and Localization of Cyber‐Physical Attacks on Water Distribution Systems”,  published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, is selected as 2019 Best Research‐Oriented Paper Award. The award will be presented at the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2019. Congratulations!

The ICS:BlockOpS technology, developed by iTrust, was awarded Gold medal for the Research and Development category at the ASEAN ICT Awards (AICTA) 2018.

The technology uses blockchain to enhance the security of the data in a Historian, thus enables data immutability, redundancy, and privacy. The architecture also permits the rapid generation of alert when data is tampered with, […]

Archer News featured a report on “Why is your drinking water hackable?”. The report mentioned about the work done at iTrust, Secure Water Treatment (SWaT) and Water Distribution (WADI) Testbeds, by Dr Riccardo Taormina and team. Read more about it here.  

iTrust was awarded “High Recognition for depth of research on Industrial Cybersecurity” at Industrial Cybersecurity : Opportunities and challenges in Digital Transformation Conference 2018 held in Sochi, Russia organised by Kaspersky Lab.

Congratulations!

ST Engineering’s electronics sector has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SUTD to co-develop new operational technology (OT) cybersecurity courses for critical information infrastructures (CII), to address cyber vulnerabilities. These OT cybersecurity courses will help train more than 2,000 cyber professionals over the next three years, and plug the cybersecurity manpower gap faced by local critical sectors.

In collaboration with Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), SUTD participated in the programme for a Trustworthy and Secure Cyber-Plexus (TSCP). This programme is funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE).

The new initiative will work to make information systems both trustworthy, […]

In light of the spread of fake news and the recent harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook user profiles – without the users’ permission – for targeted political ads, iTrust Associate Centre Director Prof Zhou Jianying in a media interview provided tips on how to protect one’s privacy, as well as being more discerning when reading news on social media. See the […]