News and events

• 30. May 2025: Official opening of the Frostbyte Lab to students and best student presentation awards at the Frostbyte workshop

  The Frostbyte Cybersecurity Workshop, held on May 23rd, 2025, marked the official opening of the Frostbyte Lab to students. The Frostbyte Lab is a joint initiative between Reykjavík University and the University of Iceland.

  More information on this milestone of the Frostbyte lab opening can be found in this PDF document. Reykjavik University has also a news piece on the lab opening in Icelandic and English.

  The event brought together students and faculty from both institutions for a day of engaging talks, discussions, and networking centered on cybersecurity research: Programme

  The workshop highlights included several outstanding student presentations which provided impressive insights into current projects and topics. Two student presentations, with Birgir Sigurðsson from the University of Iceland presenting “Accidental pentest – why not to code with AI”, and Marteinn Lundi Kjartansson together with Emilía Maidland from Reykjavík University presenting “Scan Iceland: Vᛟlva - Architecture and Implementation of a Continuous National Network Scanner”, received the Best Student Presentation award with a book prize. Round table discussions with mixed groups raised various future research and project ideas, ranging from, e.g., research into security of air traffic control, drones and potential for malicious use to IT security of schools, research on cybersecurity teaching and awareness in schools and quantum encryption in healthcare.

  The Frostbyte Lab, established with support through EU funding via the NCC-IS (Eyvör) and Defend Iceland grants, was formally introduced during the course of the workshop which finished with a tour of the Frostbyte Lab facilities at Reykjavík University.

  

  Group photo of participants

  

  Best Student Presentation award winners. From left to right: Prof. Helmut Neukirchen, Student Presentation award winner Birgir Sigurðsson (both University of Iceland), Student Presentation award winners Marteinn Lundi Kjartansson and Emilía Maidland from Reykjavík University.

• 23. May 2025: Frostbyte Cybersecurity Workshop

  The Frostbyte Cybersecurity Workshop will take place on Friday, May 23rd, 2025 from 9:00 – 14:00. The Frostbyte Lab is a collaborative initiative between Reykjavík University and the University of Iceland and operating in conjunction with Eyvör (NCC-IS) and Defend Iceland. The workshop is aimed at and welcomes students and staff from both universities who are interested in cybersecurity research. The workshop will present the newly established joint cybersecurity lab and will feature faculty and student presentations on current work and research. The program further includes round table discussions on selected cybersecurity topics. Participants must register for the event before May 20th on this registration page.

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• 8. February 2025: Frostbyte cybersecurity lab at UT messan 2025

  The Frostbyte lab is the joint cybersecurity lab of the security researchers and teachers at University of Iceland and Reykjavik University. It is co-funded by the Icelandic government and the EU/ECCC. The official opening to experts is on Friday, 7 February 2025, and to the general public on Saturday, 8 February 2025, 11:00-16:00, in Harpa at the IT fair UT messan. Both University of Iceland and Reykjavik University have at the exhibition day for the public a booth on the 2nd floor of Harpa where you can learn more about the lab. The lab is open to interested parties for their cybersecurity research: please contact people at Frostbyte lab if you have a cybersecurity use case. For example, we offer to do a security scan if your organisation that has computers facing the internet.