Projects (89)

False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Fake news (inaccurate information) peaked during the pandemic with around 46 000 daily Twitter posts containing false information (Lupi, 2020). In Europe over 70% people regularly encounter fake news (UNESCO, 2021). The Scottish government has recent... Read More about False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SICSA Research Theme Event for IEEE DSC 2022 Jul 1, 2021 - Jul 10, 2022
The IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing seeks papers, posters, and experiences for presenting innovative research results, solutions, and new challenges in the field of dependable and secure computing. This comprises the whole spectrum... Read More about SICSA Research Theme Event for IEEE DSC 2022.

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.

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.

Repairing Polluted Artificial Intelligent Systems with Machine Unlearning Dec 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2021
This project is intended to seek in-depth understanding of the new promising decentralised machine learning scheme, namely federated learning, and develop a proof-of-concept algorithm-independent unlearning scheme for federated learning. Our new mach... Read More about Repairing Polluted Artificial Intelligent Systems with Machine Unlearning.

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.

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