Keynote Speakers

Design of a Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: The disciplines of cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence are closely related and of growing importance. In addition, both disciplines have an urgent talent shortage that needs to be addressed. To this end, this article describes the process of creating the undergraduate degree in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Málaga (UMA), Spain. This article describes the relationship between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence at the strategic, regulatory and technological levels. It also defines the curriculum of the degree, including the sources of information consulted, and provides a summary of the content of the degree, detailing specific aspects of its design – such as the interdependencies between subjects, the role of LLMs, and other aspects. The aim is to highlight the importance of providing specific training at Bachelor level in order to facilitate the replication of this degree in other contexts. 

Paradigm Shift in AI Security

Abstract: AI security is a multidisciplinary research area between AI and information security, and many kinds of attacks and their countermeasures have been found until now. In this work, we discuss several major attacks and their countermeasures on AI in the past decades, including the author’s results. Especially, we focus on backdoor attacks whereby an adversary embeds vulnerabilities in machine learning models through mislabeled data and show that this attacks accelerates other attacks against AI. We also discuss security applications of AI in recent years, including cyber-physical systems, and show several applications as the author’s results. Furthermore, we focus on that large language models (LMMs) have been utilized in various research fields and then discuss future challenges in security orchestration for LLMs.