Security
We build the science behind secure systems -- uncovering new vulnerabilities, developing principled defences, and ensuring security research stays grounded in the real systems and people it protects.
Our research advances the science and engineering of trustworthy computing across the full stack -- from hardware and operating systems to network protocols, distributed infrastructure, and machine learning. Our work spans both offense and defence: we uncover novel vulnerabilities and attack classes in existing systems while developing principled methods for building systems that are secure by design. Current research threads include adversarial machine learning and model security, cryptography, network security, protocol analysis, human-centred security, and the intersection of security with policy and governance. We collaborate closely with industry and government to ensure our results translate into deployable solutions.
Faculty
Research Groups
AaltoSEA Group concentrates and consolidates research activities, resources, results, and collaborations on foundational principles, concepts and techniques for service engineering analytics of distributed software systems and services, big data applications, machine learning systems and IoT.
The Cryptography group is part of the Theoretical Computer Science Group. The Cryptography group is connected to the Secure Systems and Algebra and Discrete Mathematics groups.
The Digital Economic Security Lab (DIESL) is professor Vili Lehdonvirta’s joint research group at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
The research by Verena Distler's group focuses on understanding human experiences of security, privacy and manipulation when interacting with technology.
The goal of the Secure Systems research group is to create new technologies and design and analysis methods for the development of secure computing and communication systems.
Trustworthy & Adversarial Computing (TAC) Lab conducts multidisciplinary research at the intersection of machine learning, security and privacy.
Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC)
Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC) is a strategic initiative set up by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in June 2016 to ensure excellence in cybersecurity research and...
