Prof Bill Buchanan's Projects (88)

Privacy- and Consent-aware Data Sharing with Machine Learning Aug 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2025
The the basic elements of the research work; this will include key objectives of:
-Define an architecture of digital trust and identity integration using a Distributed Ledger.
- Integrate a citizen-controlled consent model for data-sharing attribu... Read More about Privacy- and Consent-aware Data Sharing with Machine Learning.

Data Sharing in Highly Secure Environments Nov 4, 2024 - May 3, 2027
In several areas of government there is a requirement for strong control of data sharing. This KTP investigates the usage of PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography) and Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to protect data.

Trusted Threat Sharing and Privacy Preserving using LLMs Apr 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Organisations are facing an increasing number of cyber threats, which makes it evident that relying solely on security tools and technologies may fail to detect malware, indicators of compromise, and emerging threats. As a result, organisations must... Read More about Trusted Threat Sharing and Privacy Preserving using LLMs.

Information Security Conference & Privacy Conference 2024 Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2025
This project is about the 39th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC 2024) organisation. The SEC conferences are a series of well-established international conferences on Security and Privacy. SEC is the flagshi... Read More about Information Security Conference & Privacy Conference 2024.

TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers May 9, 2023 - Sep 8, 2024
Organisations are facing an increasing number of cyber threats, which is making it evident that relying solely on security tools and technologies may fail to identify emerging threats, malware, and other indicators of compromise. As a result, organis... Read More about TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers.

TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1 May 9, 2023 - Sep 8, 2023
The way in which we develop, supply, and secure software is often weak and lacks digital trust. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply c... Read More about TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1.

PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption) Oct 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2026
This PhD studentship will be funded at £10k per year for a period of three years, and focus on homomorphic encryption in 5G / 6G network slices and strategies to foster and enhance federated structures in the medtech and health domains. SCEBE will pr... Read More about PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption).

TruElect Oct 9, 2023 - Oct 8, 2025
This KTP project aims to building a trustworthy infrastructure for the voting process, including using trusted methods of citizen identity, voting sustation, and privacy preserving methods.

TruElect Dec 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
Democracy Counts is a market-leading organization that address the needs of global elections. With a deep understanding of international electoral systems, the company already provides international clients with unique technology-based electoral solu... Read More about TruElect.

LastingAsset: Crypto assets custodial solution Sep 26, 2022 - Feb 28, 2023
As the crypto asset market continues to grow, the role of custodians to maintain the safekeeping of crypto assets is becoming ever more important. So far, many institutional investors who manage large amounts of assets such as hedge funds, pension fu... Read More about LastingAsset: Crypto assets custodial solution.

Smart Contract based Reward Scheme Oct 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2023
Egg Lighting would like to explore the possibility of linking their company value to Smart Contracts via Blockchain. They would eventually like to give away 1/3 of their business (shares) to the general public via tokens tradable on blockchain. Sim... Read More about Smart Contract based Reward Scheme.

TrueDeploy - Scottish Enterprise HGSP Company Creation Aug 1, 2022 - Mar 15, 2025
The way in which we develop, supply, and secure software is often weak and lacks digital trust. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply c... Read More about TrueDeploy - Scottish Enterprise HGSP Company Creation.

Behaviour profiling using Touch-based Behavioural Biometrics for Continuous Authentication Systems May 9, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
Authenticating smartphone users from distinct behavioural biometric patterns provided through human interactions on touch screens would allow users to be continuously authenticated on their devices while protecting them from unauthorised use. More im... Read More about Behaviour profiling using Touch-based Behavioural Biometrics for Continuous Authentication Systems.

TrueDeploy - CyberASAP Phase 1 Apr 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
The way in which we develop and supply secure, trusted software is broken. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply chain.

The Solar... Read More about TrueDeploy - CyberASAP Phase 1.

Innovative Distributed Platform for Educational Content Jan 15, 2022 - Jun 30, 2022
This project aims to setup a dynamic sharing content platform for tutor led plans using Hyperledger Fabric and IPFS.

TRUST AND PRIVACY PRESERVING COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR CROSSBORDER FEDERATION OF PERSONAL DATA Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2025
As we live in a data-driven era, the emergence of interdisciplinary, geographically dispersed, data repositories, is inevitable. The fact that these repositories do not necessarily abide with existing interdisciplinary data representation standards,... Read More about TRUST AND PRIVACY PRESERVING COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR CROSSBORDER FEDERATION OF PERSONAL DATA.

Consensus-based Blockchain File Versioning Jun 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2021
This project aim to version files and support roll-back on a ransomware infection.

MEMCRYPT CyberASAP Phase 2 Sep 23, 2020 - Feb 28, 2021
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that blocks user access to data by encrypting files. A user is then required to pay the attacker a sum of money to receive the encryption artefacts and start recovering the data. MEMCRYPT has developed new t... Read More about MEMCRYPT CyberASAP Phase 2.

Memcrypt (HGSP) Sep 15, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Memcrypt focuses on new ways of detecting the usage encryption keys, and has a focus on addressing ransomware.

Cyber Hunt May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2025
Automated Cyberthreat Hunting and Cyber-relevant Incident Response for Critical Infrastructures. CyberHunt will develop highly innovative cybersecurity technologies that can sense, detect, analyse, disrupt and outmaneuver adversarial attacks in cybe... Read More about Cyber Hunt.

MemCrypt Apr 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2020
At the core of the work is to addresses risks related to the leakage of encryption keys, and which can lead to data loss issues and trust breaches. Along with detecting keys in memory, the team has developed new techniques related to timing attacks w... Read More about MemCrypt.

OPTIMSING U>P Security and Anonymised Data Cloud Analysis for Duty of Care and Business Continuity Sep 7, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
This project will build on the work that has already been done by U>P to develop the MVP (Minimum Viable Product), which delivers people analytics data through active data gathering, and the work done by Professor Bill Buchanan’s Centre for Distribut... Read More about OPTIMSING U>P Security and Anonymised Data Cloud Analysis for Duty of Care and Business Continuity.

Distributed single sign-on-stack-on e-Governance Paradigm based on a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange network for security, transparency, cost effectiveness and trust - GLASS Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2023
The VISION of the GLASS is to develop a single-on distributed solution that is open source, efficient and inclusive, transparent, cross-border functional, user- friendly, end-to-end encrypted combining state of the art ICT methodologies towards an ad... Read More about Distributed single sign-on-stack-on e-Governance Paradigm based on a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange network for security, transparency, cost effectiveness and trust - GLASS.

AI-based privacy-preserving biometric authentication with mass-market smart devices Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
Increasingly our identity is key to our online security, and where online services must integrate with these, in order to provide increased levels of trust. But there are now many constraints in how biometric and behavioural data can be used within t... Read More about AI-based privacy-preserving biometric authentication with mass-market smart devices.

Cryptodoc Jun 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
This project aims to investigate the integration of a cipher policy for the protection of data, and how these can be applied into a cloud-based infrastructure. A key focus for the implementation will be in the creation of a simple cipher policy for t... Read More about Cryptodoc.

COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2026
Embracing the multimodal nature of speech presents both opportunities and challenges for hearing assistive technology:
on the one hand there are opportunities for the design of new multimodal audio-visual (AV) algorithms; on the other hand,
multimo... Read More about COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids.

Internet Search Improved By User-side Data Sep 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020
The objective is to clearly demonstrate that better internet search can be achieved through the use of user-side personalisation (under the full control of the user) and with no personal data revealed to external third-party services. One essential i... Read More about Internet Search Improved By User-side Data.

MemoryCrypt Sep 1, 2019 - Feb 29, 2020
The usage of encryption keys is an important aspect in preserving privacy in communications. Increasingly these communications are protected using SSL/TLS methods. Along with this, there is a general move towards using virtualised infrastructures for... Read More about MemoryCrypt.

Freemove Innovation Voucher May 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2020
A project to provide decentralised identity for meeting KYC & AML requirements in the property industry.

Shared Secret Steganography for Usable Mnemonic Based Security Mar 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2020
This project will use steganography technology and shared secrets to improve the usability of the process of recovering cryptocurrency/distributed ledger wallet. It will do so by encoding parts of the recovery mnemonic within images, which can then b... Read More about Shared Secret Steganography for Usable Mnemonic Based Security.

Kippitech: Innovation Voucher for Incentivising Green Behaviour with Tokens Dec 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2019
This will investigate the feasibility of incentivising environmentally friendly behaviours through rewards given in tokens as well as IoT wearables to discover this behaviour and reward automatically.

Next Generation Connectivity with Health and Well-being Oct 1, 2018 - Jul 2, 2021
This project will investigate existing consumer tech, IOT and connectivity capabilities for simulation activities.

Napier and DHI will explore a range of technologies that can connect to DHI’s simulation infrastructure by collaboratively approach... Read More about Next Generation Connectivity with Health and Well-being.

Hypervine: Innovation Voucher Construction Site Safety Enhancement Aug 1, 2018 - Nov 30, 2018
This focuses on the use of distributed ledger technologies to manage both compliance events such as signing off on work and also document management

Eyecademy: Innovation Voucher for Food Provenance Aug 1, 2018 - Nov 30, 2018
This project will focus on the building of a food provenance platform based on distributed ledger technologies

Trisent: Innovation Voucher for Personal Context Data Project Feb 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2018
This is a small project to initiate an engagement following an unsuccessful application for a larger Data Lab project.

Trisent’s core technology is called the Personal Context Management System (PCMS) which gathers context data into a database an... Read More about Trisent: Innovation Voucher for Personal Context Data Project.

Next Generation Trust Architecture Mar 1, 2018 - Feb 29, 2020
This work will provide proof-of-concept infrastructures and which will be used to create an ecosystem for strong use cases, and thus attract new funding for the building of new health and social care infrastructures, with a focus a cyber resilient tr... Read More about Next Generation Trust Architecture.

Virtualised Security Operations Centre (vSoC) KTP Sep 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2019
The aim of this KTP project is to create a completely scripted environment for the creation of advanced cyber security training, using scripted scenarios for the creation of training elements, and providing feedback on performance metrics

IoT Hardware Security Test Framework Nov 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2018
The collaboration work has developed through an existing Data Lab funded project, and has shown how data science can be used to discover security vulnerabilities within IoT devices. Currently the team have showcased the cracking of 128-bit AES encryp... Read More about IoT Hardware Security Test Framework.

Health Blockchain Aug 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2019
This is a Data Labs project which will investigate Blockchain technology - with Spiritus, the project will be ground-breaking in the implementation of a private blockchain within a large-scale healthcare environment. With an initial focus on trackin... Read More about Health Blockchain.

e-Frail - Phase 2 Aug 1, 2017 - Feb 28, 2018
This project aims to extend the existing work with the e-Frail project, and integrate a range of NHS-sourced assessors with care giver and open source gathered assessors, in order to define a weighted risk-based score that outlines the risks around f... Read More about e-Frail - Phase 2.

Payfont - PhD sponsorship - Sep 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2018
Peter Aaby - PhD sponsorship

e-FRAIL - Early detection of FRAilty and Illness Oct 1, 2015 - Dec 31, 2016
Scottish Frailty Framework with Mobile Device Capture and Big Data Integration. The proposed innovation will develop and extend the current work into Frailty, with the long term focus on encompassing not only clinical factors, but economic, environme... Read More about e-FRAIL - Early detection of FRAilty and Illness.

KTP Payfont Ltd Jul 1, 2015 - Jun 30, 2017
To create the ability in Payfont to research and deliver, using Universal Design principles and processes based on BS8878, the optimal secure user experience (UX) in secure transactions

Fragment Finder Mar 27, 2015 - Jan 18, 2016
Fragment Finder (FF) enables a new, high-speed approach to digital forensics. It is unique in that it will build a more efficient technical architecture for the creation, storage and use of hash signatures in digital forensics. The key focus of FF is... Read More about Fragment Finder.

Seven Layer Communications Ltd May 1, 2000 - Apr 30, 2002
To develop and implement real time software and programmable logic elements to provide a powerful and flexible high performance test tool platform for telecommunications software and system test.

DigitalDNA Sep 1, 2008 - Aug 31, 2010

Callendar Estate Apr 1, 2010 - Sep 30, 2010
The focus of this project is to integrate novel interaction methods for forestry.

Fibrehub Europe Ltd Jun 1, 2003 - Jul 31, 2005
This KTP project aims at producing enhanced Web based material for high quality customized print.

Canan Jan 1, 2005 - Jul 31, 2005
This Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Cànan Ltd and Napier University aimed to establish a multimedia department and to develop an online platform for the delivery of British minority language e-learning materials.

Cànan, based in the... Read More about Canan.

Digital forensic Toolkit Dec 10, 2007 - Dec 1, 2008
This project aims to produce next generation digital forensics tools, using novel methods based on DNA matching.

Flexiant Ltd, Innovation voucher Aug 1, 2011 - Jan 31, 2012
This research project studies the feasibility of a Cloud-based platform which is used to evaluate the performance of digital forensics tools. Along with measuring key quality metrics, such as true-positives, and false-positives, the platform also mea... Read More about Flexiant Ltd, Innovation voucher.

RATTRAP (Guardian Toolkit) Nov 1, 2011 - Feb 10, 2013
The Office of Cyber Security & Information Assurance (OCSIA) estimates that the cost of cybercrime to businesses, in the UK alone, is over £21 billion per annum. This project focuses on the real-time assessment of the risks associated with affiliate... Read More about RATTRAP (Guardian Toolkit).

sa.Fire Mar 5, 2012 - Oct 31, 2013
This project has resulted in a spin-out company which was incorporated on 17 January 2014. It has also generated a patent related to BDDs (Binary decision Diagrams).

Information Sharing between Police and Community Partners Dec 1, 2011 - Feb 29, 2012
The exchange of information between the police and community partner organisations forms a core aspect of effective policing and community service provision. However, this must be governed by sets of legislative and organisational rules, or policies.... Read More about Information Sharing between Police and Community Partners.

Audit/Compliance Integration Jan 9, 2012 - Apr 30, 2012
IIDI is working with Allatus ltd supported the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme. 






This project aims to integrate the automated data gather of information for audit/compliance requriments.

Cloud-based Cash-flow Project Jan 16, 2012 - May 31, 2012
IIDI is working with Level10 Ltd on a new project awarded under the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme

Integration of Stimulating and Engaging Education Assessments Jul 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with Bright Red Publishing supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme.

Social Media Analysis Reporting Tool (SMART) Jun 1, 2012 - Mar 31, 2013
To develop a commercially viable tool to enable organisations to monitor and understand their organisation’s life on social media beyond those accounts they have created. This project is focused on developing the data analysis and reporting abilit... Read More about Social Media Analysis Reporting Tool (SMART).

Innovation and Integrated Learning Environment for Engaging and Ever-changing Educational Content Jan 21, 2013 - Jul 31, 2014
An integrated, innovative Web site which supports a range of books for schools.

MiiCard Mar 1, 2013 - Oct 1, 2013
The project has resulted in a software prototype which demonstrates miiCard tags.

HighlandBirchwoods Jan 21, 2013 - Aug 31, 2013
The main outcome is a novel bird observation and tracking system with integrated maps, and which runs on mobile devices.

SHEDFINDERS Jan 21, 2013 - May 31, 2013
The development of an integrated product which scans data on remote sites, and then integrates into a central data site.

CM2000 Aug 1, 2013 - Mar 1, 2014
The integration and analytics of data feeds from social care visiting, in order to improve health and social care.

IPv6 Business Case Demonstrators for Farrpoint Mar 8, 2013 - Nov 30, 2013
The development of interesting use cases for IPv6.

CM2000 Follow On Apr 7, 2014 - Dec 31, 2014
Investigation of Big Data applied into Health and Social Care

Payfont, innovation voucher Aug 1, 2013 - Jan 31, 2015
SMART Grant proposal.

Development of e-commerce capability of Solution Management Jun 1, 2008 - Feb 28, 2009
The Aim of this IIDI project led by Alistair Lawson is to develop a prototype software for data gathering at geographical locations that feeds into an online directory of shops and services for towns and cities.  A particular focus is on the sustaina... Read More about Development of e-commerce capability of Solution Management.

Bare Metal Forensics - Pattern Analysis Heuristics - Data Analysis Jan 15, 2016 - Jan 31, 2017
Exploiting industry interconnect standards to gain visibility into devices.

Information Sharing between the Police and their Community Partners Sep 1, 2008 - Oct 30, 2011
This is a three year PhD award from the SIPR (Scottish Institute for Policing Research) and focuses on creating new models for information sharing between the police and their community partners.

Project Quaisten Jun 1, 2014 - Aug 1, 2015
To develop a question generator API to pull information from the web, based on defined questions types, confirming correct answers and implementing a process of question difficulty based on metrics about the individual question type and possible answ... Read More about Project Quaisten.

QMAX Oct 1, 2005 - Jul 31, 2009

IMP Jan 1, 2014 - Jul 16, 2014
The collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Silver IMP aims to apply existing patent pending technology for targeted marketing, into secure working, where documents can only be accessed based on the location of the user.
The applica... Read More about IMP.

AyeCan Mar 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2014
Weight management is a key health issue within Scotland. The focus of this project is to develop an intelligent online platform for weight management.  The project will use artificial intelligence methods to provide feedback to users on the best way... Read More about AyeCan.

Trust and Governance Integration into Living It Up (Sitekit) Nov 28, 2013 - Mar 31, 2014

First August - Real-time Cyber Tracking and Risk Assessment Tool May 1, 2013 - Jan 31, 2014
Prototype software and business case.

Automated Data Extraction from Invoices May 1, 2012 - Jul 31, 2012
To extract data automatically from purchase invoices and receipts using artificial intelligence, import the data automatically to an accounting system linking this entry to the associated invoice.

LPT Productions digital platform development project Aug 1, 2013 - Nov 30, 2013
The project has created a prototype Web site which uses advanced psychometrics.

Core Product Development Nov 4, 2011 - Mar 31, 2012
IIDI is working with Core Business Psychology Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme

Morgan Stanley: Security Analytics for Insider Threat Monitoring Apr 1, 2017 - Nov 30, 2017
Morgan Stanley is seeking a data science resource / support to augment its Technology Information Risk Team within the Technology and Data division. The key challenge involves an investigation of the potential value of using different analytical appr... Read More about Morgan Stanley: Security Analytics for Insider Threat Monitoring.

Bio id Security Jul 31, 2015 - Dec 31, 2015
The university will undertake a comprehensive review of the core biometric security software for the desktop enterprise environment including Bio Logon, Bio ID Secure Communications and Bio ID Secure Applications.

The University will
•determine... Read More about Bio id Security.

Payment Cards and Mobile Technology May 1, 2015 - Oct 31, 2015
Comcarde is developing a mobile payments system called Bridge that uses a patent pending algorithm which is extremely resilient to man-in-the-middle attacks. Combined with strong authentication, we believe that Bridge improves significantly on exist... Read More about Payment Cards and Mobile Technology.

Kulio Education Characters - online platform Mar 15, 2015 - Oct 31, 2015
Kulio Ltd and Edinburgh Napier University are planning to collaborate to create a new innovative application consisting of Kulio education characters. Children throughout local authorities are already familiar with these characters through the intera... Read More about Kulio Education Characters - online platform.

Onyu_Secure Apr 1, 2015 - Jul 31, 2015
The project undertaken by Onyu and ENU will concentrate around the mobile application that is under development by the team at Onyu.

Working with ENU our key objectives are:
1.Validation of our zero-knowledge encryption solution
2.Creation of a... Read More about Onyu_Secure.

vSOC - Virtualised Security Operations Centre Dec 8, 2015 - Feb 1, 2017
The proposal aims to build a Virtualised Security Operation Center [vSoC] and integrates into a currently operating virtualized cyber security Cloud infrastructure (DFET), and use state-of-theart
systems, software, tools and scenarios for the captur... Read More about vSOC - Virtualised Security Operations Centre.

Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference Nov 1, 2009 - Nov 1, 2011
This project relates to the research collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University, CipherLab, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, GS1 UK, Imperial College, and Kodit, and is funded through a research project with the TSB (Technology Strategy Board... Read More about Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference.

Scalable and Open Framework for Human/Digital Trust between Informal/Formal Personal Health Care Infrastructures Mar 1, 2011 - Jul 31, 2013
This project extends the e-Health Cloud-based Platform, and integrates with assisted living. The project integrates Edinburgh Napier University, Microsoft and HoIP, and has created a novel governance policy infrastructure using a circle-of-trust rela... Read More about Scalable and Open Framework for Human/Digital Trust between Informal/Formal Personal Health Care Infrastructures.

The Online Pension Company Ltd Aug 8, 2011 - Jan 31, 2012
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with The Online Pension Company Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme.

e-Health Security Infrastructure Evaluation Jan 1, 2012 - Jun 30, 2012
IIDI is working with Patient Reminders Limited supported the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme. 

Patient Reminders Limited provides patient reminder products and solutions for use in clinical studies, pharma marketing, public health, assisted living,... Read More about e-Health Security Infrastructure Evaluation.