Cyber Security Engineering Lab and Research Group

Our lab is part of the Department of Computing, University of Turku, Finland. The University of Turku was founded in 1920 with the support and donations of the Finnish people. The university’s multidisciplinary research and high-quality education have shaped the Finnish society already for more than one hundred years and now we aim to create solutions to global and future challenges. Today, the university builds a sustainable future with top research and education.

The tradition in cyber security research and education at our university dates back to the 1980’s and Academician Arto Salomaa‘s research in cryptography. Since 2010, we have offered Master’s degrees in cyber security and, nowadays, the annual output is around 30-40 completed cyber security Master’s degrees. Today, our research in cyber security engineering covers all abstraction levels and key application domains of networked systems from IoT to global internetworking, targeting future technologies needed  in building a secure digital society.

We are included in the EU ENISA CyberHEAD database of European higher education programs in cyber security.

Our research focuses on three main areas:

  1. Application-domain specific cyber security: ensuring the security, privacy and safety of networks, communication and data from short range Internet-of-Things to global internetworking, in key digital application domains such as e-Health and well-being, autonomous systems and AI, and smart cities and environments;
  2. Cyber Security technology and assessment: development of cyber security technologies and assessment methods for future networked systems; detection technologies for new network security solutions; the application of AI and LLMs to cyber security in general and network security solutions in particular; methods for assessing and predicting the security levels of deployed networks; systems with security, privacy and safety considered as elements to be built in;
  3. Cyber security for the society and the individual: addressing the human element and factor in cyber security to prevent the potential massive personal and societal damage arising from the threats and risks in the wide-spread adoption of future smart environments (smart cities, smart traffic, smart spaces, e-Health, e-voting) and technologies by individuals and organizations; securing the human side of digital transformation, including research on the effectiveness, content and development of cybersecurity education.

CSE lab research areas

 

Recent publications

Please go to the People page of our web site and consult each individual research group member’s profile page for up-to-date information on the publications from our lab.

PhD with us?

We are continuously interested in talented new doctoral researchers that wish to carry out their PhD thesis research with us. If your PhD research interests align with our on-going research activities, please contact us by completing and submitting our PhD thesis research contact form. The first page of the form also includes links with information regarding the admission process and requirements.