Tanveer Khan from Tampere University (TUNI) presented HARPOCRATES research at the 28th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2023), held on 16–17 November 2023 in Oslo, Norway.
NordSec is a long-running conference series that gathers researchers and practitioners to discuss advances in information security, privacy, and trust. The event provides a Nordic forum for high-quality academic contributions, while also fostering international dialogue on emerging challenges in secure IT systems.
Research Contribution
At the conference, Tanveer Khan presented the paper:“A More Secure Split: Enhancing the Security of Privacy-Preserving Split Learning.”
Building on prior research, the paper investigates security improvements for split learning, a distributed machine learning framework designed to protect sensitive data by dividing the training process between clients and servers. While split learning introduces benefits for privacy, it remains vulnerable to specific inference and leakage attacks. This work proposes methods to strengthen the security of the approach, ensuring more robust protection for sensitive information during collaborative training.
Connection to HARPOCRATES
The research reflects HARPOCRATES’s wider mission of developing advanced privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) solutions that can be applied in real-world scenarios such as healthcare, security, and public services. By addressing both the privacy and security aspects of distributed learning, the work supports the project’s goal of enabling trustworthy and resilient AI systems.
Further Information
More details about the conference can be found on the official website: NordSec 2023