In this seminar considers topics related to the security and privacy of systems with special focus on the so-called Internet-of-Things (IoT). During the course of the seminar students will summarize, compare and evaluate a number of current scientific publications on a specific topic related to system and IoT security and report their findings in the form of a seminar paper. In addition, every participant will present his or her paper at the end of the semester.

Possible topics include:
- Hardware-based security mechanisms
- Attestation of devices
- Defence mechanisms against runtime attacks
- Attacks against IoT systems and IoT malware
- Intrusion detection systems
- Anomaly detection based on machine learning (ML)
- Adversarial machine learning
- Security analysis through reverse-engineering
- Blockchain-based defence mechanisms