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Cyber Funfair: Creating immersive and educational experiences for teaching Cyber Physical Systems Security (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Mills, A., White, J., & Legg, P. (2024). Cyber Funfair: Creating immersive and educational experiences for teaching Cyber Physical Systems Security. In SIGCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (847–852). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630820

Delivering meaningful and inspiring cyber security education for younger audiences can often be a challenge due to limited expertise and resources. Key to any outreach activity is that it both develops a learner's curiosity, as well as providing educ... Read More about Cyber Funfair: Creating immersive and educational experiences for teaching Cyber Physical Systems Security.

Evaluating data distribution strategies in federated learning: A trade-off analysis between privacy and performance for IoT security (2023)
Conference Proceeding
White, J., & Legg, P. (in press). Evaluating data distribution strategies in federated learning: A trade-off analysis between privacy and performance for IoT security.

Federated learning is an effective approach for training a global machine learning model. It uses locally acquired data without having to share local data with the centralised server. This method provides a machine learning model beneficial for all p... Read More about Evaluating data distribution strategies in federated learning: A trade-off analysis between privacy and performance for IoT security.

Longitudinal risk-based security assessment of docker software container images (2023)
Journal Article
Mills, A., White, J., & Legg, P. (2023). Longitudinal risk-based security assessment of docker software container images. Computers and Security, 135, Article 103478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103478

As the use of software containerisation has increased, so too has the need for security research on their usage, with various surveys and studies conducted to assess the overall security posture of software container images. To date, there has been v... Read More about Longitudinal risk-based security assessment of docker software container images.

Federated learning: Data privacy and cyber security in edge-based machine learning (2023)
Book Chapter
White, J., & Legg, P. (2023). Federated learning: Data privacy and cyber security in edge-based machine learning. In C. Hewage, Y. Rahulamathavan, & D. Ratnayake (Eds.), Data Protection in a Post-Pandemic Society (DPPPS) – Best Practices, Laws, Regulations, and Recent Solutions. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34006-2

Machine learning is now a key component of many applications for understanding trends and characteristics within the wealth of data that may be processed, whether this be learning about customer preferences and travel preferences, forecasting future... Read More about Federated learning: Data privacy and cyber security in edge-based machine learning.

Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using scalextric (2023)
Journal Article
White, J., Legg, P., & Mills, A. (2023). Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using scalextric. Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 10(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.53735/cisse.v10i1.163

Cyber Security as an education discipline covers a variety of topics that can be challenging and complex for students who are new to the subject domain. With this in mind, it is crucial that new students are motivated by understanding both the techni... Read More about Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using scalextric.

Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using Scalextric (2022)
Presentation / Conference
White, J., Legg, P., & Mills, A. (2022, November). Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using Scalextric. Paper presented at Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education, 2022, Online

Cyber Security as an education discipline covers a variety of topics that can be challenging and complex for students who are new to the subject domain. With this in mind, it is crucial that new students are motivated by understanding both the techni... Read More about Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using Scalextric.

OGMA: Visualisation for software container security analysis and automated remediation (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Mills, A., White, J., & Legg, P. (2022). OGMA: Visualisation for software container security analysis and automated remediation. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) (76-81). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR54599.2022.9850335

The use of software containerisation has rapidly increased in academia and industry which has lead to the production of several container security scanning tools for assessing the security posture and threat of a container image. The variability betw... Read More about OGMA: Visualisation for software container security analysis and automated remediation.

"Hacking an IoT Home": New opportunities for cyber security education combining remote learning with cyber-physical systems (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Legg, P., Higgs, T., Spruhan, P., White, J., & Johnson, I. (2021). "Hacking an IoT Home": New opportunities for cyber security education combining remote learning with cyber-physical systems. In 2021 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA). https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSA52016.2021.9478251

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic shift in educational practice, whereby home-schooling and remote working became the norm. Many typical schools outreach projects to encourage uptake of learning cyber security skills therefore we... Read More about "Hacking an IoT Home": New opportunities for cyber security education combining remote learning with cyber-physical systems.

Unsupervised one-class learning for anomaly detection on home IoT network devices (2021)
Conference Proceeding
White, J., & Legg, P. (2021). Unsupervised one-class learning for anomaly detection on home IoT network devices. In 2021 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA). https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSA52016.2021.9478248

In this paper we study anomaly detection methods for home IoT devices. Specifically, we address unsupervised one-class learning methods due to their ability to learn deviations from a single normal class. In a home IoT environment, this consideration... Read More about Unsupervised one-class learning for anomaly detection on home IoT network devices.