iCSS organises internal and external facing events on campus from time to time. An regular event we run is our public engagement event series Kent Cyber Security Forum or Festival (KCSF). The institute also routinely (co-)organises and hosts scientific conferences, workshops, summer schools and other events. Prior to the establishment of iCSS in 2021, our events were organised by Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS).
iCSS (co-)organised/hosted events
- October and November 2024: A number of school outreach events for the KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network) including some CyberFirst-branded events
- 7-31 October 2024: 2024 iCSS Cyber Security Awareness Month including the 2024 “Creative Cyber” Exhibition and many other activities
- 22 May 2024: a “Celebrating Cyber” event for announcing results of the 2023-24 iCSS-KMCC-KMCS3 CyberAnything Competition and new cyber security certification training activities, co-organised by iCSS, KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster), ISC2 and KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society)
- 9 March 2024: CyberFirst Investigators course, hosted by iCSS on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent, and delivered by QA Ltd
- 14 February 2024: Launch event of Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster (KMCC), co-organised and hosted by iCSS in the Templeman Lecture Theatre and the Templeman Atrium (part of the Templeman Library) on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent (More details of the event can be found on the KMCC’s event page.)
- February 2024: CyberAwareness Month with CyberAnything Competition for promoting awareness on cyber security and online safety to all students and staff of the University of Kent, and residents in Kent and Medway, jointly with KMCC and KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society)
Events (co-)chaired by iCSS members
- July 30 to August 2, 2024: COSH 2024 (2nd International Workshop on Child Online Safety and Harms), IoT-SECFOR 2024 (8th International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT) and WSDF 2024 (17th International Workshop on Digital Forensics) at ARES 2024 (19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security), to be held in Vienna, Austria (Dr Virginia Franqueira as Workshop Co-Chair)
- June 5-6, 2024: EICC 2024 (5th European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference), to be held at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (Professor Shujun Li as Conference Chair) and FLARW 2024 (Special Session on Federated Learning Applications in the Real World) co-located with EICC 2024 (Professor Shujun Li as Co-Chair)
- 3 June, 2024: The D.A.R.E. Workshop (Disrupt, Ally, Resist, Embrace: Action Items for Computational Social Scientists in a Changing World) at ICWSM 2024 (18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media), to be held in Buffalo, USA from 3-6 June, 2024 (Dr Jason Nurse as Workshop Co-Chair)