Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Homeland Security Enterprise

 

Date: June 21, 2022

 Location: – Arizona State University D.C.

 1800 | Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20006

Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) under development promise the ability to control the sharing and use of sensitive information while minimizing the risk of unauthorized use. These technologies have been under development by researchers for nearly four decades but have been slow to migrate from the research lab into operational use.  This workshop will help to speed the pace of change by engaging researchers and practitioners in a joint endeavor to solve the “hard problems” that will enable us to solve the practical problems so we can put new technologies into practice while still keeping risk levels low.

This workshop will feature:

• Specific security problems that could be solved with PETs, as presented by principals in the Homeland Security Enterprise (including program managers at the Department of Homeland Security and officials in state, local and tribal security agencies).
• Researchers who have been working on a range of PETs, including secure multiparty computation, private set intersection, secure anonymous recording linking, differential privacy, and other methods for privacy preserving data sharing and analysis.
• Discussions of funding opportunities for transitioning research to pilot programs and operational capacities within the Homeland Security Enterprise.

This workshop will combine presentations and discussions, with a heavy emphasis on finding specific approaches (and new approaches) that solve specific problems within the next three to five years.

AGENDA 

8:00AM – 9:15AM - Introduction to the Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Homeland Security Enterprise

              8:00AM – 8:30AM Coffee and Registration

              8:30AM – 8:40AM Welcome and Introductions

                                               Nadya Bliss, Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative, Arizona State

                8:40AM – 9:10AM Privacy and the Homeland Security Enterprise

                                                 Lynn Parker Dupree, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security

9:10AM – 10:00AM – Use Cases on Synthetic Analysis and Social Media

                9:10AM –   9:20AM AI Compatible Synthetic Data Production for Training Law Enforcement Tools

                                                      Presenter: Kameron Cox, ICE

                9:20AM –   9:30AM Privacy Respecting Collection of Publicly Available Information

                                                       Presenter: Maria Petrakis, DHS S&T Privacy

                9:30AM –   9:40AM Privacy Enhanced Information Sharing through Synthetic Analysis

                                                       Presenter: Garfield Jones, Associate Chief of Strategic Technology

                9:40AM – 10:00AM Discussion

 

10:00AM – 10:15AM – Coffee Break

10:15AM – 11:00AM – Federated Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Privacy and Security

                10:15AM – 10:30AM Secure Federated Learning

                                                         Presenter: Jose-Luis Ambite, University of Southern California

               10:30AM – 10:45AM Privacy-Preserving Graph Analytics: Secure Generation and Federated Learning

                                                         Presenter: Dongqi Fu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

                 10:45AM – 11:00AM Twin Finder: Discovering and Assessing the Vulnerability to AI-Generated Twin Identities

                                                         Presenter: Mohamed Hussein, University of Southern California

 

11:00AM – 11:50AM – Use Cases on Threat Identification

 

                11:00AM –   11:10AM Detection and Obfuscation of Identity Information in Video Systems

                                                           Presenter: Laura Rabbitt, DHS S&T

                11:10AM –   11:30AM Unauthorized and Rogue Wireless Device Detection/Internet based Threats to Federal Facilities and Personnel/Insider Threat and Unauthorized Access

                                                           Presenter: Dan Chapple, Federal Protective Service, Cyber Physical Division

                  11:30AM – 11:50AM  Discussion

 

11:50AM – 12:30PM – Lunch and Networking

 

12:30PM – 1:15PM  –  Privacy Preservation for Images and Video

 

                12:30PM – 12:45PM Privacy-Preserving Video Surveillance System over Cloud

                                                         Presenter: Vishesh Tanwar, Missouri University of Science and Technology

 

              12:45PM  –  1:00PM Self-Supervised Deep Learning for Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics

                                                         Presenter: Chen Chen University of Central Florida

 

                1:00PM   –   1:15PM Privacy-Preserved Capturing and Processing of Images and Videos

                                                         Presenter: Rakibul Hasan, Arizona State University

 

1:15PM – 1:30PM – NSF Transition to Practice Program

                                         James Joshi, Program Director, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, NSF

1:30PM – 2:15PM – Privacy Enhancements for Multiparty Computations

 

                1:30PM – 1:45PM Privacy Enhancing Technologies Ready for the Homeland Security Enterprise

                                                     Presenter: David Archer, Galois Inc.

 

                1:45PM – 2:00PM VaultDB: Facilitating Secure Analytics over Multiple Private Data Sources

                                                     Presenter: Xiao Wang, Northwestern University

 

                2:00PM – 2:15PM Rapid Prototyping of Secure Multi-Party Computation Applications

                                                     Presenter: J. Parker Diamond, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

 

2:15PM – 2:30PM – Coffee Break

 

2:30PM – 3:30PM – Use Cases on Data Sharing and Matching

 

                2:30PM – 2:40PM Consistent Marking and Handling of Data Across Sharing Mediums

                                                     Presenter: Corryne Carter, Data Sharing & Governance Branch, USCIS

 

              2:40PM – 2:50PM  Minimizing Social Security Numbers for Analytical and Sharing Purposes

                                                     Presenter: Joel Weiss, CHCO Privacy Office

 

                2:50PM – 3:00PM Biometric Matching within Encrypted Domains and Enhanced Security of Biometric Transmissions

                                                    Presenter: Will Graves, Deputy Assistant Director, Futures Identity

 

 3:10PM – 3:30PM Discussion

 

3:30PM – 4:15PM – Private Linking

 

                3:30PM – 3:45PM Linking Without Leaking: Private Set Intersection

                                                     Presenter: Rafail Ostrovsky, University of California, Los Angeles

 

               3:45PM – 4:00PM Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Protected Linking and Querying of Watchlists

                                                    Presenter: Kurt Rohloff, Duality Tech

 

                 4:00PM – 4:15PM Privacy-Preserving, Error Resilient Record Linkage

                                                     Presenter: Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas, Dallas

 

4:15PM – 5:00PM – Roadmapping Privacy in the Homeland Security Enterprise

                                                 Presenter:  Simson Garfinkel, Senior Data Scientist, Chief Data Officer Directorate,

            Office of the Chief Information Officer,  Department of Homeland Security