We attended the SWITS seminar with a COINS delegation also this year. SWITS is the Swedish Network of IT Security Students, in many ways a network of Ph.D. students and faculty like COINS. Berglind Smaradottir, Vivek Agrawal, and Yi-Ching Liao joined from COINS. SWITS organised its annual seminar for the 14th time. It is held […]
This year, eight groups submitted a bachelor thesis as part of completing their degree of a bachelor in information security at HiG. These are as many as we had in the last three years combined. All projects had an external or an internal employer and were supervised by NISlab staff. The topics this year were: […]
I have always wondered why airlines reserve the right to refuse transferring you from B to A when you paid them for transfer from A to B but did not use their services. They might fear that you not only paid them (for A to B), but that you also pay a competitor to actually […]
I traveled to Finse this week to attend the annual FRISC Finse winter school in information security. On Wednesday morning, it started to snow, and since Finse is 1,200m above sea level, the snow did not vanish on my way to the seminar. I took the bus from Gjøvik, connected in Fagernes, crossed Tonsåsen und […]
In 2005, I was notified that the building in which I had my office was due to be remodelled the following year. I feared that there would be a lot of noise and dirt in a period I had planned to be a period of research. That did not happen. No construction workers showed up […]
If you have not yet decided, here are three reasons why you should apply for our bachelor programme in information security at HiG: We offer the only dedicated bachelor programme in information security in Norway. Other institutions offer you just a specialisation within a broad programme. At HiG you will study with twenty other students […]
Gary McGraw gave a guest lecture on software security at HiG. The lecture was titled „Cyber War, Cyber Peace, Stones, and Glass Houses“. He stressed that the focus of the security (research/operations) community was too much on incident handling and offensive capabilities instead of building secure systems. The lecture was inspiring and entertaining, put software […]
I experimented with the statistics we have on Ph.D. students in COINS to find out whether there could be meaningful indicators for progress. A coarse approach to measure progress (or efficiency) is to start with equating a Ph.D. training with 5,400 hours. Most students take more time, but normalised time is 180 ECTS = 5,400 […]
Recently, results of a nationwide survey of second year students were published. „Studiebarometeret“ was conducted by NOKUT, the controlling authority for educational activity at all Norwegian universities, special field universities, university colleges and institutions with single accredited higher education programmes. Asked whether students were satisfied with the study programme they had enrolled in, the answer […]
I have been a regular user of the airport coach between Gjøvik and the international airport Oslo-Gardermoen (OSL) in the past 10 years. It is the most convenient mode of travel to cover the 90 kilometers in about 100 minutes. Starting the first week of February, the operator of the route changed the ticket system. […]