Ressources

Since I get asked certain questions for resources over and over again, I started to put a list together in order to be able to look them up fast. The lists come without varanty and as is, but I am happy to add further items or correct errors if you drop me a mail.

Security and Privacy Awards

Award	Donator	Scope	Phd	MA	BA	Others	Frequence	Deadline
Promotionspreis IT-Sicherheit	CAST / GI	progress in IT security, enable security in IT applications	✔	✗	✗	✗	Yearly	Mid of December
Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit	CAST	innovative ideas, interesting results, new points of view and ways within current and relevant topics of IT security	✗	✔	✔	✗	Yearly	End of July
GDD Wissenschaftspreis	GDD	help close the gap between the legal, technical and social framework of data protection and data security	✔	✔	✔	✔	Yearly	End of July
Deutscher Studienpreis	Körber Stiftung	social significance, benefit of scientific knowledge for society as a whole.	✔	✗	✗	✗	Yearly	March 1st
Wissenschaftspreis TARGION	Intargia	strategic information management, digitisation and digital transformation	✔	✗	✗	✗	Yearly	End of Februar
EDPL Young Scholars Award	European Data Protection Law Review	Articles based on (MA/PhD) thesis for young researchers (under 35), deal with data protection issues, European perspective (legal, interdisciplinary)	✔	✔	✗	✗	Yearly (?)	November
ERCIM STM PhD Award	ERCIM, WG STM	Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management	✔	✗	✗	✗	Yearly (?)	July
CNIL-Inria Privacy Award	CNIL, INRIA	scientific paper on privacy and personal data protection	✗	✗	✗	✔	Yearly	September

Free Books

• Ross Anderson: Security Engineering
• Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup: A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
• Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• Nigel Smart: Cryptography, An Introduction: 3rd Edition
• Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski, Adam Stubblefield: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
• Mike Rosulek: The Joy of Cryptography -- Undergraduate textbook

Datasets

• Awesome Public Datasets

Datasets

1. Harborth, D. and Pape, S.: Dataset on Actual Users of the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Jondonym.
   IEEE Dataport, 2020.
   
   
   
2. Harborth, D. and Pape, S.: Dataset on Actual Users of the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Tor.
   IEEE Dataport, 2020.
   
   
   

LaTeX Hints

Spacing between abbreviations such as e.g., i.e.	e.\,g.
Spacing after citations such as \cite{ref}	Author et al.~\cite{ref}

Lists of possibly predatory journals

• https://predatoryjournals.com/
• Beall's list

Misc

• INFOSEC Research Council: Hard Problem List, November 2005