A broad range of Internet of Things and mobile applications are location-based: their operation relies on precise position information or they collect location-specific data. They have gained popularity, offering valuable services to users and systems. This brings forth a dual challenge: how to secure position information and how to safeguard the system from misbehaving data-collecting devices/users. In this talk, we discuss these two problems: securing Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning and securing participatory location-based services.

About Panos Papadimitratos

Panos Papadimitratos earned his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He then held positions at Virginia Tech, EPFL and PoliTo. Panos is currently a Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads the Networked System Security group. His research agenda includes a gamut of security and privacy problems, with emphasis on wireless and mobile networks. He chairs the ACM WiSec conference steering committee. He is also a member of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Advisory Board, the CANS conference steering committee and the vice-chair of the ACM Europe Council. Panos is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Member. His group webpage is: www.eecs.kth.se/nss

This event will be conducted in English