Fellowship Final Report: Enhancing Cybersecurity with Automated Log Parsing and Anomaly Detection

A common mantra among cyber-security professionals is – ‘the more data the better’. Cybersecurity log collection and analysis is a critical function in the modern cyber-security toolset. Having a plethora of data sources allows for better correlation, increased levels of assurance and better investigation quality on security events. However, as the data scales, so does […]
Fellowship Final Report: Research on Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)

The development of CAVs has changed our transportation roadmap. The modern vehicle is equipped with 100’s of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) that together contain many million lines of code. Due to this connectivity, a vehicle can communicate not only with systems in the Cloud through the Internet, but also with other vehicles and with roadside […]
WATCH: “Bridging the Bubbles” by connecting academia and industry in cyber research

In the first webinar of the Catalyst Fellowship Program, panelists Shiladitya Sircar (SVP, Cybersecurity Product Engineering at Blackberry), Sumit Bhatia (Director, Innovation & Policy at Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst), Dr. Reza Semavi (Catalyst Fellow – academic stream) and Dr. Jeff Schwartzentruber (Catalyst Fellow – industry stream) discuss how to bridge the communication gap between academics and […]
Announcing the 2022-23 Fellows of the inaugural Catalyst Fellowship Program

Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst (Toronto Metropolitan University’s national centre for training, innovation and collaboration in cybersecurity) is delighted to announce the inaugural cohort of Catalyst Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. Three TMU faculty members — Burcu Bulgurcu, Rasha Kashef, and Reza Samavi — as well as three industry professionals — A.J. Khan, Monika Freunek, and […]