Providing customised services using users’ biometric data (including emotions, experiences, memories, and attitudes), security and privacy issues involved in the BCIs need more attention. Moreover, reviewing the possible privacy and security threats involved in BCIs with possible security measures to mitigate the privacy threats, and therefore focusing on developing security mechanisms to protect and secure the BCI can open many opportunities in research in BCI security and privacy concepts. Therefore, we have planned to set up a panel for more discussion regarding the mentioned issues.
- Does using BCI threaten user privacy in the fields in which BCI is involved, such as education, games and entertainment, marketing, and healthcare (prevention, detection, diagnosis, rehabilitation restoration), and brain-biometric?
- What are the capable defense techniques against BCI’s vulnerabilities?
- How to calculate cyber security risks in BCI? How about the risk management of BCI vulnerabilities? What is included in a cybersecurity risk assessment?
- How to combine Cryptography with EEG to have secure communication?
- Do users’ emotions, stress, and diet (stability of brain biometric), or age in a long time (permanence of Brian biometric) influence Cryptographic Key Generation Systems using EEG signals?
- What are the “Biometric Specifications for Personal Identity Verification” standards for brain biometric?
- What are the ethical considerations for BCI wearable technology?
Finding an answer to these questions opens many opportunities in research in BCI security and privacy concepts. Moreover, BCI security risk management requires more in-depth analysis of the security risk caused by BCI. In particular, this would be assisted by stronger estimates on the baseline likelihood of risk. Due to the vitality awareness of security involved in BCI, various prominent experts from Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, and UK will discuss the BCI security and privacy issues and solution on our panel discussion on July 15-17, 2022.
Panel I Organizers
- Dr. Farnaz Mohammadi
E-mail: fm@sec.uni-passau.de
Short Bio: Farnaz Mohammadi studied Computer Engineering-Software and received her master’s degree in Computer Science- Intelligent Systems from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). She has over ten years of experience in Security and Access Control systems development, maintenance, and deployment while she worked as a technical team member and project manager. She was a Junior Researcher at System Security Laboratory (SSL), Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece, from 2017 to 2020. She is currently a Ph.D Student /Research Assistant at Passau Institute of Digital Security (PIDS), at the University of Passau under the supervision of Prof. J. Posegga. Her research interests include systems and networks security, and she focuses on Brain-Computer-Interface security and privacy.
- Prof. Joachim Posegga
E-mail: jp@sec.uni-passau.de
Short Bio: Joachim Posegga holds the chair of IT security since 2008. Before coming to Passau, he was appointed Professor at the University of Hamburg in 2003 and founded the Security in Distributed Systems (SVS) Group at the University of Hamburg. Prior to academia, he was leading the Security Research Program at SAP Corporate Research, from 1995-2000 he worked on security at Deutsche Telekom Research in Darmstadt. His research addresses Web Security, Security protocols and architectures, the current application focus is the Internet of Things. He is the author of four books in the area of computer science, and numerous scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings.
- Dr. Mona Ghassemian
E-mail: mona.ghassemian@interdigital.com
Short Bio: Mona Ghassemian currently works as a senior research and innovation manager leading the next generation networking research team in the Future Wireless Europe department at InterDigital. She received her PhD in "Mobile, and Personal Communications" research sponsored by NTT DoCoMo and a M.Sc. by Research degree in mobile and personal communication systems both from King's College London by distinction. Her Ph.D. and subsequent postdoc position were on self-organised networks. She worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at KCL, Uni of Greenwich and SBU, teaching courses and supervising at BSc, MSc, and PhD levels in 2006-2007, 2007-2012, and 2012-2018, respectively. She switched to industry research to work at BT research lab at Adastral park with a focus on the security of 5G and IoT technologies from 2019-2021. She currently works as senior R&I manager at InterDigital, Inc leading the next generation networking research team. She served as IEEE UK & Ireland section chair (2020-2021) and is currently the IEEE Region 8 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee chair and the MGA nomination committee member.