School of Computer Science
PROTECT Research Centre
Security?
Who can access what and how?
Creating mechanisms to enforce this
Security doesn't exist on its own; needs to be applied in a context
Security and forensics
Security: hypothetical
Help enforce the security requirements
Understand if something is secure
Forensics: historical
Who accessed what and how?
Often circumventing security
Existing research
- Network security
- Intrusion/anomaly detection
- Systems-of-Systems security
- Security visualisation
- Cryptography and protocols
- Risk analysis
- Social network forensics
- Cloud security
- Cyber-physical security
Future topics of interest
- IoT security
- Data analysis security
- Security gamification
- Cloud forensics
- Security usability
- Computer forensic visualisation
- Digital Rights Management
- Quantum and massively parallel security
- Emergent security and trust
Topics not covered
- Finding vulnerabilities (white hats)
- Incident response and CERTs
- Formal security analysis
- Human security testing
