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Cybersecurity research, explained at seminar depth.
CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar presents university-style security talks with enough technical depth to reward careful listening. Recent sessions move from AI-enabled attacks and quantum-resistant networks to energy storage apps, smart manufacturing, speech model spoofing, and child privacy.
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CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar is a research-forward cybersecurity series from Purdue’s security community. It sounds like a seminar room, not a panel show. Each episode usually centers on one speaker walking through a defined technical or policy problem with slides, terms, examples, and a clear security implication. The result is measured, sometimes dense, and often useful for listeners who want more than headlines. Recent talks show the breadth of the feed. Brian Peretti’s closing keynote considers AI, cybersecurity, vulnerability discovery, and the possibility of adaptive attack loops. Jen Sims explains how third-party dependencies in mobile apps for home energy storage systems can create shared cyber-physical risk. Ashish Kundu’s quantum secure networks session addresses post-quantum cryptography and real-world adoption. Ruqi Zhang brings a probabilistic lens to AI safety risks in foundation models. Danny Vukobratovich treats ISO 27001 and NIST CSF 2.0 as complementary operating tools rather than abstract frameworks. Thai Le examines attacks on AI speech models where changes in language can affect detection outcomes. Bethanie Williams studies AI-assisted attack detection in smart manufacturing systems, including CNC machining data and model performance. Mary Jean Amon shifts the focus to parental sharing, children’s privacy, and information shared without consent. The common thread is not a single product category or threat of the week. It is the habit of taking a system apart until the risk becomes legible. The show is best when a speaker moves patiently from architecture to attack surface to evidence. It can feel rough because it preserves the rhythms of live talks and Q&A. That roughness is also part of its value: it gives access to working research before it has been flattened into marketing copy.
Made for: Built for security researchers, practitioners, students, and technically curious listeners who can follow methodical explanations of systems, models, standards, and attack paths.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the academic seminar format: long-form technical talks that connect system mechanics to security consequences across AI, networks, infrastructure, governance, and privacy.
CERIAS -- the Nation's top-ranked interdisciplinary academic education and research institute -- hosts a weekly cyber security, privacy, resiliency or autonomy speaker, highlighting technical discovery, a case studies or exploring cyber operational approaches; they are not product demonstrations, service sales pitches, or company recruitment presentations. Join us weekly...or explore 25 years of archives for the who's-who in cybersecurity.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research talks connect cybersecurity methods to real systems, from programmable networks and smart manufacturing to home energy controls and family privacy.
CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar - Purdue University gives researchers room to explain security problems from first principles through evidence and proposed defenses.
A phone app meets a home battery, and suddenly your threat model needs a fuse box.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at AI speeding up both phishing and vulnerability hunting.
This discussion treats AI as a force multiplier on both sides of the cyber fight. It can cheapen repeated spear-phishing, help an attacker learn what did not work, and speed up probing for weak points.
A home battery app becomes a security problem once the control path is mapped.
Jen Sims frames mobile energy apps as a shared security risk in energy storage systems, and the piece stays grounded in the physical chain instead of slipping into abstraction.
A seminar on how parents' online choices shape children's privacy before children can make those choices themselves.
Mary's seminar treats parental sharing as a privacy issue shaped inside family life, where parents often decide what becomes public about children before those children can meaningfully consent.
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
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Krassimir Tzvetanov presents a Purdue student-driven review of the privacy policies and terms of service of 24 apps, scored on 28 data points in batch one and eight categories in batch two.
The closing remarks direct listeners to the website for dissertations, published reports, laboratory links, and other research results.
Jen Sims is introduced as a cybersecurity researcher from Oak Ridge National Lab.
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This episode features Danny Vukobratovich explaining how to integrate ISO 27001 and NIST CSF 2.0 into a practical operating model for scalable and auditable information security programs.
Indiana University professor Mary Jean Amon presents research on "sharenting" — parents sharing children's information online — framed through interdependent privacy (IDP), the study of how people share others' sensitive information without consent.
Professor Antonio Bianchi discusses using large language models (LLMs) to address software security challenges, covering his research in mobile and system security.
Sanket Naik discusses his background and his company Palisade, which uses AI agents to automate security programs in enterprises as part of DevSecOps.
This episode features a research seminar by Stanislav Kruglik on ensuring correct file retrieval in Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols, focusing on querying techniques to maintain data privacy.
Professor Xiaoqi Chen presents his research on using programmable data planes and a split-proxy defense to block large-scale SYN flood attacks, explaining TCP fundamentals and the security challenges involved.