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Cyber Security and Forensics research

Exploring solutions to emerging cyber security challenges and dealing with crime in cyberspace

Cyber security is inherently multi-disciplinary, and real-world cyber security problems need real-world solutions. To be effective cyber security research needs to be set in a wider security context. It is impossible to separate out cyber security from physical and personnel security, just as it is impossible to consider national defence and security issues without considering organisational and citizen security.

Our research brings together computer science with social and behavioural science to address cyber security challenges holistically. We are looking at secure software development and the interaction between software developers and security practitioners, we’re examining how people make cyber security risk decisions in different environments and varying physiological conditions and we’re developing ways of understanding how to build converged security teams that bring together cyber,  physical and personnel security functions.

We are also looking at applications of AI, machine learning, and data science to cyber security problems, including intrusion detection, malware classification, and threat analysis and prediction.

Our research

Research topics

  • Cognitive Cyber Security
  • IoT Security and Forensics
  • Human factors in Cyber Security
  • AI applications in Cyber Security
  • Social engineering
  • Cloud security, network anomaly detection, and malware mitigation

Methods and facilities

Our research takes advantage of a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches, combining expertise in formal methods, computations intelligence, social and behavioural sciences.

The School also hosts several cyber security and forensic computing facilities, including:

Partners

Some of our partners include:

  • University of Peloponnese
  • NATO
  • Cranfield University
  • Thales
  • Airbus
  • Cybercrime Research Institute

Publications

Our research is published in academic journals as well as practitioner focused publications such as the CREST Security Review and The Conversation.

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Members

Mo Isaac Mahamed Adda Portrait

Dr Mo Adda

Principal Lecturer

Mo.Adda@port.ac.uk

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Mr Oluwatobi Fajana

Lecturer

Oluwatobi.Fajana@port.ac.uk

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Alexander Emilov Gegov Portrait

Dr Alexander Gegov

Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence

Alexander.Gegov@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

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Dr Ella Haig

Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence

ella.haig@port.ac.uk

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Dr Rinat Khusainov

Associate Head (Research and Innovation)

Innovation and Impact Development Manager

Rinat.Khusainov@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

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Dr Alaa Mohasseb

Senior Lecturer

alaa.mohasseb@port.ac.uk

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Dr Paolo Serafino

Lecturer

paolo.serafino@port.ac.uk

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Dr Stavros Shiaeles

Associate Professor in Cybersecurity

Stavros.Shiaeles@port.ac.uk

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Dr Rahim Taheri

Senior Lecturer

rahim.taheri@port.ac.uk

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Dr David Williams

Senior Lecturer

David.Williams2@port.ac.uk

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Dr Shikun Zhou

Senior Lecturer

Shikun.Zhou@port.ac.uk

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