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Lessons from Past Sins and Corruption Can Bolster Future Network Security: NDSS Symposium 2024 – Internet Society

The Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium returns to San Diego, USA, from 26 February to 1 March 2024. 
An incubator of ideas, the NDSS Symposium has for 31 years brought together leading academics, industry researchers, students, and security practitioners to discuss top-tier, peer-reviewed research and exchange ideas. 
Register before 31 January to take advantage of early bird rates! 
In this time, network and information security has evolved from a feature to a requirement, with plenty of hard lessons learned along the way. 
This year’s two keynote speakers—Meredith Whittaker (President, Signal) and Herbert Bos (Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)—will draw on their 17-plus years of research and experience in the industry and academia to elaborate on these lessons and how they have set us on the path we are on today. 
In her keynote, “AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s,” Meredith Whittaker will review the connections between where we are now and how we got here, including the “Crypto Wars,” the role of encryption and privacy, and ultimately, the hype of AI. 
In his keynote, “Corruption of Memory: Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it,” Professor Bos will add further context through the lens of the VUSec Systems Security group’s many years of research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and illustrate its alignment with industry. 
NDSS Symposium 2024 will also include presentations from authors of 140 accepted papers across three parallel tracks and 40 poster presentations. In addition, there will be eight co-located events on the Monday before and the Friday after the main symposium, focusing on specific areas of network security research. 
For more information, check out the NDSS Symposium 2024 website and follow the NDSS Symposium on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube!  
The Internet Society would like to thank all the volunteer members of the 2024 Program Committee, the Organizing Committee, and the Steering Group, as well as the sponsors without whom we could not hold an event of this diversity, quality, and scale.  
Image copyright: ©Wes Hardaker  
Disclaimer: Viewpoints expressed in this post are those of the author and may or may not reflect official Internet Society positions.
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