Seppo Virtanen
Vice Head (Education), Department of Computing
seppo.virtanen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2776 +358 50 352 8086 Office: 456B ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9487-3018 |
Cyber Security; AI in Cyber Security; Smart Environments; Network Security; e-voting; Network Technology and Protocols; Communication Systems; Embedded Systems
Dr. Seppo Virtanen is Professor and Chair of Cyber Security Engineering, and Vice Head of Department of Computing at the University of Turku, Finland. He received his MSc in applied physics (electronics and information technology) in 1998 and his PhD [DSc(Tech)] in Communication Systems in 2004 from the University of Turku. In 2009, he was awarded the title of adjunct professor (dosentti) in Embedded Communication Systems. He completed his certificate in university pedagogy in 2010 and became a holder of the government decree regulated teacher's competence and qualification. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has supervised six PhD theses and more than 160 Master’s theses to completion. He has taught more than 80 instances of 25 different university courses to engineering students as principal instructor. His current research interests are on the application of AI on cyber security, technologies for network security solutions and security technologies for IoT.
Our research in cyber security engineering covers all abstraction levels and key application domains of networked systems from IoT to global internetworking, targeting future technologies needed in building a secure digital society. Please visit our research group's website at https://www.utu.fi/cyber for more details.
Our lab has the main educational responsibility in two Master’s degree programme major subjects in Cyber Security. Our annual output is about 30-40 M.Sc.(Tech.) degrees (120 ECTS) and we are the only university in Finland approved to the EIT Digital Master School Cyber Security double degree programme with other leading European universities in the field. Along with our partners, we also became a partner in the EU project called SPECTRO to deliver advanced digital skills in cyber security and robotics in the form of specialized Master’s programmes and self-standing modules. Please visit our research group's website at https://www.utu.fi/cyber for more details.
- Role of shared identity and agency trust in online voting among Finnish citizens (2024)
- Technology in Society
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A cloud-based systematic cyber security teaching and learning framework for high school students (2023)
- International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Categorizing TLS traffic based on JA3 pre-hash values (2023)
- Procedia Computer Science
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Framework for the Evaluation of Cybersecurity Curriculum Educational Content (2023)
- Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Motivation for continuous software engineering expertise development through lifelong learning (2023)
- Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - A method for endpoint aware inspection in a Network Security Solution (2022)
- IEEE Access
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Battle of the bands: a long-term analysis of frequency band and channel distribution development in WLANs (2022)
- IEEE Access
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Identification and analysis of educational needs for naval architects and marine engineers in relation to the foreseen context of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) (2022) Bolbot Victor, Methlouthi Oussama, Chaal Meriam, Valdez Osiris, BahooToroody Ahmad, Tsetkova Anastasia, Hellström Magnus, Saarni Jouni, Virtanen Seppo, Owen Douglas, Lei Du, Basnet Sunil
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - On Usability of Hash Fingerprinting for Endpoint Application Identification (2022) Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Heino Jenny, Gupta Ayush, Hakkala Antti, Virtanen Seppo
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Study of methods for endpoint aware inspection in a next generation firewall (2022)
- Cybersecurity
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The COVID-19 pandemic and remote working did not improve WLAN security (2022)
- Procedia Computer Science
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - A Resource Management Model for Distributed Multi-Task Applications in Fog Computing Networks (2021)
- IEEE Access
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A systematic methodology for continuous WLAN abundance and security analysis (2021)
- Computer Networks
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Understanding Dynamics of Initial Trust and its Antecedents in Password Managers Adoption Intention among Young Adults (2021)
- Procedia Computer Science
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Cybersecurity Education and Skills: Exploring Students’ Perceptions, Preferences and Performance in a Blended Learning Initiative (2020)
- IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Conceptual Security System Design for Mobile Platforms Based on Human Nervous System (2019)
- International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Refining Engineering MSc Theses with a Focus Enhancing Structure Model (2019)
- Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - SAMoC: Self-aware Access Monitoring and Controlling Framework for Android (2019)
- Communications in Computer and Information Science
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - CoDRA: Context-based dynamically reconfigurable access control system for android (2018)
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Hybrid Internal Anomaly Detection System for IoT: Reactive Nodes with Cross-Layer Operation (2018)
- Security and Communication Networks
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))