Prof. Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov Full information
University of British Columbia, Canada
Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, where he founded and has been directing the Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering since 2004. His research interests are in human and social aspects of cyber security and privacy, AI security, and systems security. Prior UBC, he was a Security Architect at two consulting and R&D start-ups. Besides many academic papers, he is also a co-author of “Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA” and “Mastering Web Services Security” books, as well as XACML and several CORBA security specifications. He has served on program committees of top academic conferences in the fields of cybersecurity (USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, NDSS, ACSAC, SACMAT), and usable privacy and security (USENIX SOUPS, ACM SIG CHI). Prof. Beznosov served as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) and Elsevier’s Computers & Security.