Speaker: Chunyi Peng - Associate Professor, Purdue University

Abstract: In this talk, I will present our ongoing work to secure cellular Internet of Things (C-IoTs). C-IoTs bring advantages and convenience to connect cyber and physical world by exploiting anywhere cellular networks deployed and to be deployed. However, they also become an appealing target of cyber-attacks.  

We have spent huge efforts and gained rich experience to secure mobile broadband (MBB) in cellular networks. Despite these efforts, C-IoTs are not secure either. We will present a showcase to expose the new attack interface in C-IoTs and the proof-of-concept attacks over the exposed attack interface. Though this showcase, we will discuss a systematic way to safeguard C-IoTs by leveraging past experience in securing MBB.   

Bio: 

Chunyi Peng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. In the past 20 years, her footprints have covered Tsinghua (BEng and MEng), Microsoft Research Asia (assi/associate researcher), UCLA (MS and PhD), OSU (assi professor) and then Purdue (assi/asso professor) while her research interests have been coherently on mobile networking, system and security, with a focus on 5G/4G/3G cellular networks, wireless networking, mobile sensing and network security.