Educational seminar Demystifying Cyber Security technologies

4/12/2023

On Wednesday, November 29 2023, the seminar Demystifying Cyber Security technologies was held as part of EDIH DIGI-SI.

The lecturers at the seminar, assoc. prof. dr. Marko Hölbl and dr. Marko Kompara from the Laboratory for Data Technologies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics of the University of Maribor, presented various aspects of cyber security. The basics of cryptography, which are the basis of many security mechanisms, digital certificates and public key infrastructure were presented. We clarified concepts such as electronic signature, digital certificate, SIGEN-CA, eOsebna, etc. and possibilities of application in practice. By introducing new possibilities for using biometrics, FIDO 2 the user authentication aspect of PassKey was addressed. We also touched on the future of cyber security in the age of quantum computers and concluded the seminar with a comprehensive approach to information security, an information security management system.

We regularly organize professional and educational seminars on the topic of demystifying modern technologies. Follow them at https://digi-si.eu/events/.