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Privacy based triage of suspicious activity reports using offline large language models (2024)
Book Chapter

Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) form a vital part of incident response and case management for the investigation of known or suspected money laundering. However, those submitting SARs, and those tasked with analysing SARs, often find the task overw... Read More about Privacy based triage of suspicious activity reports using offline large language models.

Digital twins of cyber physical systems in smart manufacturing for threat simulation and detection with deep learning for time series classification (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With increasing reliance on Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for automation and control in Industry 4.0 and 5.0, ensuring their security against cyber threats has become paramount. Traditional security mechanisms, constrained by operational continuity an... Read More about Digital twins of cyber physical systems in smart manufacturing for threat simulation and detection with deep learning for time series classification.

Improving search space analysis of fuzzing mutators using cryptographic structures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance the performance of software fuzzing mutator tools, by leveraging cryptographic structures known as substitution-permutation networks and Feistel networks. By integrating these structures into the exis... Read More about Improving search space analysis of fuzzing mutators using cryptographic structures.

Evaluating data distribution strategies in federated learning: A trade-off analysis between privacy and performance for IoT security (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Analyst-driven XAI for time series forecasting: Analytics for telecoms maintenance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Time series forecasting facilitates real-time anomaly detection in telecom networks, predicting events that disrupt security and service. Current research efforts have been found to focus on new forecasting libraries, more rigorous data cleaning meth... Read More about Analyst-driven XAI for time series forecasting: Analytics for telecoms maintenance.

GoibhniUWE: A lightweight and modular container-based cyber range (2024)
Journal Article

Cyberattacks are rapidly evolving both in terms of techniques and frequency, from low-level attacks through to sophisticated Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). There is a need to consider how testbed environments such as cyber ranges can be readily... Read More about GoibhniUWE: A lightweight and modular container-based cyber range.

Cyber security unplugged: Teaching security management through immersive gameplay (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cyber security education and the online safety of young people is key on the government agenda. A variety of initiatives are designed to raise awareness about the threats and safeguards related to children and their use of technology. Furthermore, cy... Read More about Cyber security unplugged: Teaching security management through immersive gameplay.

Vulnerability detection through machine learning-based fuzzing: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Modern software and networks underpin our digital society, yet the rapid growth of vulnerabilities that are uncovered within these threaten our cyber security posture. Addressing these issues at scale requires automated proactive approaches that can... Read More about Vulnerability detection through machine learning-based fuzzing: A systematic review.

TRIST: Towards a container-based ICS testbed for cyber threat simulation and anomaly detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cyber-attacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS), as exemplified by the incidents at the Maroochy water treatment plant and the Ukraine's electric power grid, have demonstrated that cyber threats can inflict significant physical impacts. These incid... Read More about TRIST: Towards a container-based ICS testbed for cyber threat simulation and anomaly detection.

Cyber Funfair: Creating immersive and educational experiences for teaching Cyber Physical Systems Security (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The increased adoption of sophisticated Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in critical infrastructure and various aspects of Industry 4.0 has exposed vulnerabilities stemming from legacy CPS and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices. The interconnec... Read More about Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security.

Longitudinal risk-based security assessment of docker software container images (2023)
Journal Article

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

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.

Teaching offensive and defensive cyber security in schools using a Raspberry Pi Cyber Range (2023)
Journal Article

Computer Science as a subject is now appearing in more school curricula for GCSE and A level, with a growing demand for cyber security to be embedded within this teaching. Yet, teachers face challenges with limited time and resource for preparing pra... Read More about Teaching offensive and defensive cyber security in schools using a Raspberry Pi Cyber Range.

Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using scalextric (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Defending against adversarial machine learning attacks using hierarchical learning: A case study on network traffic attack classification (2022)
Journal Article

Machine learning is key for automated detection of malicious network activity to ensure that computer networks and organizations are protected against cyber security attacks. Recently, there has been growing interest in the domain of adversarial mach... Read More about Defending against adversarial machine learning attacks using hierarchical learning: A case study on network traffic attack classification.

Teaching offensive and defensive cyber security in schools using a Raspberry Pi Cyber Range (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Computer Science as a subject is now appearing in more school curricula for GCSE and A level, with a growing demand for cyber security to be embedded within this teaching. Yet, teachers face challenges with limited time and resource for preparing pra... Read More about Teaching offensive and defensive cyber security in schools using a Raspberry Pi Cyber Range.

Interactive cyber-physical system hacking: Engaging students early using Scalextric (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Functionality-preserving adversarial machine learning for robust classification in cybersecurity and intrusion detection domains: A survey (2022)
Journal Article

Machine learning has become widely adopted as a strategy for dealing with a variety of cybersecurity issues, ranging from insider threat detection to intrusion and malware detection. However, by their very nature, machine learning systems can introdu... Read More about Functionality-preserving adversarial machine learning for robust classification in cybersecurity and intrusion detection domains: A survey.