Wolter Pieters

dr. ir. W. Pieters, postdoc in the VISPER project, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente.

From January 1, 2012, I will be working in the Energy & Industry section, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology. This site will no longer be updated.

Cloud computing, electronic voting, philosophy of information security

Since 2003, I have been trying to understand the concerns that new information systems raise in terms of security and privacy. Despite all theoretical and practical achievements, this understanding is still far from complete. Which is why I continue to ask questions. My research interests lie in the interaction between information security and society, and decision support for security in organisations. I address electronic voting and cloud computing as cases, and focus on developing ethical frameworks as well as practical models.

Splitting the clouds

(Dis)appearing boundaries in information security

Combatting electoral traces

The electronic voting controversy

Selected recent publications

Pieters, W. (2011) The (social) construction of information security. The Information Society, 27 (5). pp. 326-335. ISSN 0197-2243 *** ISI Impact 1,111 ***
Pieters, W. and Coles-Kemp, L. (2011) Reducing normative conflicts in information security. In: NSPW '11: Proceedings of the 2011 New security paradigms workshop, 12-15 Sep 2011, Marin County, CA. pp. 11-24. ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-1078-9
Pieters, W. (2011) Security and privacy in the clouds: a bird's eye view. In: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: an Element of Choice. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 445-457. ISBN 978-94-007-0640-8
Pieters, W. (2011) Representing humans in system security models: An actor-network approach. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, 2 (1). pp. 75-92. ISSN 2093-5374
Pieters, W. (2011) Explanation and trust: what to tell the user in security and AI? Ethics and information technology, 13 (1). pp. 53-64. ISSN 1388-1957
Pieters, W. and van Cleeff, A. (2009) The Precautionary Principle in a World of Digital Dependencies. IEEE Computer, 42 (6). pp. 50-56. ISSN 0018-9162 *** ISI Impact 2,205 ***
Pieters, W. and Tang, Q. (2009) Data is key: introducing the data-based access control paradigm. In: Data and Applications Security 2009, 12-15 Jul 2009, Montreal, Canada. pp. 240-251. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5645. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-03006-2

Selected recent publications

Pieters, W. (2011) How devices transform voting. In: Innovating Government. Normative, policy and technological dimensions of modern government. Information Technology and Law Series 20. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, pp. 439-452. ISSN 1570-2782 ISBN 978-90-6704-730-2
Jonker, H.L. and Pieters, W. (2010) Anonymity in voting revisited. In: Towards Trustworthy Elections: New Directions in Electronic Voting. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6000. Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 216-230. ISBN 978-3-642-12979-7
Langer, L. and Jonker, H.L. and Pieters, W. (2010) Anonymity and Verifiability in Voting: Understanding (Un)Linkability. In: 12th International Conference Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2010, 15-17 Dec 2010, Barcelona, Spain. pp. 296-310. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6476. Springer Verlag. ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-17649-4
Pieters, W. (2010) Verifiability of electronic voting: between confidence and trust. In: Data Protection in a Profiled World. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 157-175. ISBN 978-90-481-8864-2
Pieters, W. (2009) Combatting electoral traces: the Dutch tempest discussion and beyond. In: E-Voting and Identity: Second International Conference, VOTE-ID 2009, 7-8 Sep 2009, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg. pp. 172-190. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5767. Springer Verlag. ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-04134-1

Dagstuhl seminar on Secure Architectures in the Cloud

Download presentations of the Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing

Electronic voting resources

I defended my PhD thesis on electronic voting on January 21, 2008.