Research Repository
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Dr Peter McLaren Status Complete Part Time No Years 2016 - 2019 Project Title Investigations into decrypting live secure traffic in virtual environments Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Gordon Russell Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan Additional Supervisor Thomas Tan
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Sam Grierson Status Current Part Time No Years 2021 Project Title Privacy-preserving systems around trust and identity within smart phones Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Bill Buchanan Second Supervisor Craig Thomson Additional Supervisor Baraq Ghaleb
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Hisham Ali Status Complete Part Time No Years 2021 - 2024 Project Title Privacy-preserving and trusted threat intelligence sharing using distributed ledgers Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Jawad Ahmad Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan Additional Supervisor Zakwan Jaroucheh
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Dr Simon Davies Status Complete Part Time No Years 2020 - 2024 Project Title Contributions to crypto-ransomware analysis and detection Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Rich Macfarlane Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan
MSc. in Advanced Security and Digital forensics
Master's Degree
Level Master's Degree Student Dr Simon Davies Status Complete Part Time Yes Years 2017 - 2019 Project Title Evaluation of Live Forensic Techniques in Ransomware Attack Mitigation Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Rich Macfarlane Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan
Ph.D.
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos Status Complete Part Time Yes Years 2019 - 2022 Project Title Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Nick Pitropakis Second Supervisor Bill Buchanan Additional Supervisor Owen Lo
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Dr Sean McKeown Status Complete Part Time No Years 2015 - 2019 Project Title Utilising reduced file representations to facilitate fast contraband detection Project Description The field of Digital Forensics has been facing scalability issues for the last 10 years, resulting in huge backlogs for law enforcement agencies, impeding the course of justice. One reason for this is the performance bottleneck introduced by storage media, with large disk drives potentially requiring an entire day to duplicate.
My work focuses on methods for evaluating digital images in a manner which is both computationally inexpensive, and avoids the need to read the entire file from the hard disk. Fingerprints are derived using compressed domain Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) techniques, which are more robust than standard cryptographic hashing methods.Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Gordon Russell Second Supervisor Petra Leimich Additional Supervisor Bill Buchanan
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Andrea Scott Status Withdrawn Part Time Yes Years 1999 - 2003 Project Title Generic Methods in Intelligent Processes Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Bill Buchanan
PhD
Doctorate
Level Doctorate Student Dr Owen Lo Status Complete Part Time Yes Years 2010 - 2015 Project Title Framework for evaluation of e-health platform and services Project Description Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. This research proposes an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health platforms under three main categories: usability evaluation, logistics evaluation and technical evaluation. Using simulated patient data, preliminary evaluation experiments carried out on an existing e-Health platform, known as the Cloud4Health platform, proves the viability of the defined methodology for gathering of technical evaluation metrics. Experimental results showed up to 100 simulated patient's data could interact with the Cloud4Health platform concurrently with a maximum round-trip time latency value of 6.6 seconds for data samples to be processed. Current work aims to build upon this evaluation framework and develop methodologies to gather both usability and logistics evaluation metrics when conducting evaluation of e-Health platforms. Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Bill Buchanan
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